sno man: I wonder if anyone thought to ask if they were reading Steph Meyer...

They're teenaged girls, it's just kinda assumed.

I feel really bad for whomever had to go in front of that meeting and communicate the results - I can imagine the nearly universal response from the parents was that the school was covering something up and won't someone please think of the children.

Sounds like they brought in just about every single testing agency and medical specialty there is and people really don't want to hear "it's all in their heads".

"...and ever since then, my arm seems to just move on its own."

Is the 'Obvious' tag broken?

Fizpez: Sounds like they brought in just about every single testing agency and medical specialty there is and people really don't want to hear "it's all in their heads".

Which is still less insulting than "They were making it up to get attention."

Sounds like the work of the Devil to me

Burn the witches.
/It's the Abrahamic religions way

attention span of a retarded fruit fly: Sounds like the work of the Devil to me

drjekel_mrhyde: Burn the witches.
/It's the Abrahamic religions way

Glad that this has already been covered.

You can bet that Santorum and his ilk would have been piling up tinder by now.

wmoonfox: You can bet that Santorum and his ilk would have been piling up tinder by now.

Well, we do know that he likes to get his hands on wood.

Witchcraft brought about from Michelle Obamas more to campaign.

LarryDan43: Witchcraft brought about from Michelle Obamas more to campaign.

Err move campaign. Stupid phone.

Approves.

/dance
//dance like you have the plague
///dance until you die a painful death

Well of course they're going to label it hysteria:

In the Western world, until the seventeenth century, hysteria referred to a medical condition thought to be particular to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus (new window)

Wow, we've made it this far without some idiot making a "Tourettes means swearing a lot" style joke. Good times, maybe people are learning what the disorder really is.

"are you the Gate keeper?"

They're just practicing for later, when they step into the realm of "adult" women.

Maybe they've just got the vapors.

/ I really think so.

Mass female hysteria? I think i have the cure.



Applied daily, may be taken rectally

Investigating...

HotIgneous Intruder: They're just practicing for later, when they step into the realm of "adult" women.

Which is code for hot btw:

Teenage girls, hysterical? The hell you say!

This sounds like the perfect job for placebos and homeopathy.

Tommy Moo: This sounds like the perfect job for placebos and homeopathy.

Do you like saying the same thing twice and redundancy?

Bills fans.

I remember many years ago in England there was a "summer of fainting" affecting teenage girls in marching bands, parades, Girl Guide [what girl scouts used to be called in England] gatherings, etc. These groups had no contact with each other and were scattered across the country. And just as mysteriously as it started, it peaked, faded, and disappeared.

Memory says this was in the 1970s (so unrelated to the well-known 1965 incident in Blackburn, Lancashire) but I couldn't find anything more about it online. (The Googles, they do nothing).

/Also, it turns out that the words "teen girls" are on Google's list of searches that it doesn't auto-complete.

Only one or two the girls are actually experiencing any symptoms. The rest are just farking with the school/parents/docs. Fearless predicition: Give it several years and some of them will admit it.

TwilightZone: Fearless predicition: Give it several years and some of them will admit it.

THIS. Kids know how to fark with teachers and parents. It is entertaining to them. Unless someone thinks the Salem witch-trial girls were really possessed.

/rolls eyes

All of the examples of mass hysteria on its Wikipedia page happened to teenage girls... (new window) Why?

Jobbers: All of the examples of mass hysteria on its Wikipedia page happened to teenage girls... (new window) Why?

I'm going to hazard a guess that the author of that page either has a dick or is a dick, perhaps both. On the closely-related page about Mass Psychogenic Illness (new window) you'll find a much more representative sample involving adults both male and female.

While there's no doubt that adolescent girls are most vulnerable to this kind of thing, it's by no means exclusive to girls or to adolescents.

Teenaged girls are the rudest, most foul mouthed, evil creatures on the face of the planet. These girls are no different from the typical teen girl.

ChrisDe: Maybe they've just got the vapors.

/ I really think so.

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Geez...Except for his hair turning grey, Bill Murray has looked almost exactly the same for pretty much my entire life.