A woman with shocking-pink hair is describing her psychiatric symptoms in a video shared with her 14,000 fans on social-media platform TikTok. Another tells her 5,000 followers that being ‘strong-minded’ and ‘needing to be right’ indicates autism, especially in young girls. There are hundreds of similar clips, many watched and ‘liked’ millions of times – presumably by the social-media platform’s core audience of teenagers. The stars of these videos are young, good-looking and fashionably dressed. Experts suggested it could be linked to a swathe of TikTok videos featuring teenagers with genuine Tourette’s.
