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Old-Library5546 Mar 17, 2026 +96

Being on a reality show might bring unwelcome remarks

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BillsMaffia Mar 17, 2026 +13

My thoughts exactly. You put yourself in the public domain for financial gain. The gloves are off after that.

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nimue57 Mar 18, 2026 +11

It's kind of hard to raise awareness about a highly stigmatized disorder if you hide from the public though. And the vast majority of people in existence have no choice but to put themselves in the public domain for financial gain. It's called "getting a job." As far as bullying and mockery goes, this probably isn't her first rodeo so I don't think she's surprised by the way people react to her. Sure she could just stay home all day and hide from other people but that sounds miserable. Putting herself out there and calling people on their bullshit sounds like a better option to me 🤷‍♀️

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justtinyquestions Mar 19, 2026 +9

What a terrible perspective. Just because someone is in the public domain doesn’t mean they should be okay with being mocked for their disabilities. Would you say that about a wheelchair user or someone with Down’s syndrome?

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BillsMaffia Mar 19, 2026 -4

If they took a payday for being on television with that condition, absolutely. I’ll never feel sorry for someone who put themselves in that position for monetary gain.

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Equivalent_Task_8825 Mar 19, 2026 +6

So just to be clear - because right now you are coming off as an edgy teenager - you don't feel bad for anyone who receives racism or sexism directed at them if they have been paid to be on television? That is your legitimate stance?

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BillsMaffia Mar 19, 2026 -2

Read the title of the thread. Nothing was said about racism or sexism.

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Equivalent_Task_8825 Mar 19, 2026 +5

You did. You said: "I will never feel sorry for someone who put themselves in that position for monetary gain."

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BillsMaffia Mar 19, 2026 -3

Please explain to me how making fun of Baylen and her Tourette syndrome is racism and sexism? She agreed to be on television showcasing her condition for money. At that point you have to take what is said after that, the good and the bad.

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Equivalent_Task_8825 Mar 19, 2026 +4

Your assertion was that by being on television and getting paid you are opening yourself up for abuse and therefore it is acceptable. Why would ypu have different standards about racism and sexism? If someone was paid to appear on a show that highlights the racism they face would you be okay with the abuse they faced? What makes that different?

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fearthainne Mar 20, 2026 +3

It's one thing to drag a public figure for questionable choices or behavior, but mocking someone for a medical issue or disorder is just being a crappy person.

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WhatAboutTheBalls Mar 20, 2026 +1

Public spotlight, not domain. Domain is a legal term, not applicable here.

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Gatodeluna Mar 17, 2026 -15

BINGO! But there’s an entire generation who has grown to adulthood if not maturity, who firmly believe there should never be personal consequences for anything. How dare anyone, especially after they waved their trump card🙄.

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coffee_and-cats Mar 18, 2026 +27

The amount of people here who are defending the inappropriate behaviour of mocking a disability is absolutely disappointing and disheartening. Yes there's a TV show centred on her, living with this disability. That does NOT give permission to anyone to make fun of her or anyone with Tourettes, or any other disability. If this was someone else's show allowing us to see the lived experience of living with other disabilities such as being a quadriplegic, a wheelchair user, having Down's Syndrome, Muscular Dystrophe, ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, CFS, Fibromyalgia, being deaf or unable to speak etc etc etc... would you mock that person too? If you ever knew or loved someone with Tourettes you would know just how debilitating it is to manage daily life and exactly how unkind you are for invalidating Baylen's condition and people like her.

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JoshHartsMilkMustach Mar 18, 2026 +4

Equally gross all the people saying "it's so obvious she's faking it!!"

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Equivalent_Task_8825 Mar 19, 2026 +3

There are definitely people who have faked Tourette's. There are also many, many more people actually living with Tourette's who have been accused of faking it when they obviously were not. People are grossly undereducated about Tourette's.

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One-Pangolin-3167 Mar 17, 2026 +112

Still not totally sold she isn't overdoing it for money.

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JEMSKU Mar 17, 2026 +46

I've been watching the docuseries intently. There's conversation about her presentation and the particulars about her tourettes. There's one meeting with a neurologist that is shown, which appears to be heavily edited, but there is talk about how OCD and ADHD can influence these presentations. My take away was that the tics are tics, however with OCD the tics are taken an extra step. "I have to finish."

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lord-of-shalott Mar 18, 2026 +17

I was thinking that earlier today. Saw a clip of her saying, “Hell nah” in response to something her boyfriend said and then she said, “I have to do it three more times” and it did feel like there was something additional happening there.

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lycnfr Mar 19, 2026 +8

im tired of people constantly accusing disabled people of this. like we enjoy being constantly ostracized and harassed and treated less than? jesus

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theroadbeyond Mar 19, 2026 -5

Being worth 3/4 of a million $ sure softens the blow

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lycnfr Mar 19, 2026 +5

no amount of money softens ableism hello..?

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d-j-9898 Mar 17, 2026 +24

I don't know who this particular person is but other people in the space have also faced the faking it criticism. Sweet Anita has videos about it, I know Ethan Klein has talked about it too and of course the British guy from the BAFTAs a few weeks ago. While I can't comment on Baylen Dupree the overall sentiment from people with tourettes is that these accusations of faking it makes life much harder for them and specifically makes awareness and understanding of what is usually embarrassing for the sufferer harder to come by.

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Equivalent_Task_8825 Mar 19, 2026 +1

You can disagree with his politics ( I definitely do sometimes) but to see the amount of ableist nonsense coming from left-leaning people was so scary to see. Because he was on the wrong side they thought it was okay to accuse him of lying and making ableist comments about him having his ticks because he is doing drugs. Any creator that didn't ban that type of talk in their chat or who worse peddled it themselves lost a lot of respect from me.

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PaleontologistNo5420 Mar 17, 2026 +19

Ya know what, I’m glad someone said it. Ive seen clips and, to my eye, it always feels like she’s pausing before her tics. There’s something just off, it doesn’t feel truly involuntary

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d-j-9898 Mar 18, 2026 +38

Because tourettes isn't strictly involuntary. Think of it like OCD where there's a building urge to perform a compulsive action. Sufferers can fight it off for a bit but eventually the discomfort will get too much for them to resist.

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blahmeistah Mar 17, 2026 +30

Maybe she tries to prevent them?

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donut_koharski Mar 17, 2026 +29

That’s what I do. I feel them coming, pause and try to overcome. It rarely works lol.

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coffee_and-cats Mar 18, 2026 +8

She tries sometimes and then it gets really uncomfortable for her. She equated it to trying not to blink. Try it. Try not blinking for as long as possible, while only thinking about needing to blink. That's what it feels like to hold back tics.

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lycnfr Mar 19, 2026 +3

oh so you're an expert? enlighten us

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theroadbeyond Mar 19, 2026

I feel like she exaggerates the real tics. A sneeze is involuntary but my brother yelling ah shit at the same time is not. I believe she has tics I also believes she plays them up for laughs and the attention on the cameras thats why she repeats the ones her fans find funny.

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sassafrass0328 Mar 18, 2026 -5

She absolutely is! It’s more than obvious

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JoshHartsMilkMustach Mar 18, 2026 +5

Woah! Crazy that there's a real life tourettes expert commenting here! Please give us more of your insight

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sassafrass0328 Mar 18, 2026 +1

I wouldn’t exactly say that I am an expert. However, I am a special education teacher. Have been for 30 years. I have several kids with Tourette syndrome each and every year. I work very closely with them as well as their specialists. I sit in on their reviews. I am more than familiar with the disorder. In all of my years working with these delightful young teens I have never come across such obnoxious behavior. Why? Well, that’s very simple. It’s bc their behavior is not intentional. Do I firmly believe that Baylen in fact does have Tourette Syndrome? Absolutely. However, her extreme behavior is manufactured. Not just by Baylen but her family and her production team as well. Extreme, wild, obnoxious behavior is what sells. Unfortunately. We can all thank “Girls Gone Wild” for that.

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NB-Heathen Mar 17, 2026 +31

I’m not saying she should be made fun of but didn’t she get her start showing this for humor? If you do that you have to accept the fact that people are going to make it hurtful and in this case a lot just think they are joining in on the “fun”.

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Harmony_w Mar 18, 2026 +7

You have to accept the fact that people are assholes? Sure.

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NB-Heathen Mar 18, 2026 +7

Part of life sadly.I’m not defending it or saying it should be that way. It is though. Especially with the internet.

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AlwaysAGroomsman Mar 18, 2026 +11

"Not a punchline", but for sure let the network use viral clips of my tics for engagement. She sold out. Don't complain how the public reacts when you put yourself on stage.

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sassafrass0328 Mar 18, 2026 +3

Perfectly said.

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OutdoorRN Mar 17, 2026 +16

Not my husband and I quoting her all the time. But like. Bout to hit a sketchy ski run? We’ll look at eachother and yell “For Narnia!” Out walking the dog and see a bald person? “You’re bald!” Running around a p******* screaming these at strangers? Not cool.

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ASSMAN45 Mar 17, 2026 +17

Tippy tippy tap that rotisserie chicken

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kay-el-sea Mar 18, 2026 +7

Wind it up!

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smothered-onion Mar 18, 2026 +3

You’re done! Damn I feel bad now, but I did in earnest think she co-signed the taglines with all the clips from the show. Glad she said something so we know how she feels!

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CptBronzeBalls Mar 18, 2026 +7

But are you smoking crystal meth with Joe Biden?

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Ok-Highway-5247 Mar 19, 2026 +2

Yeah, there’s a difference. I admit I’ve watched clips of Dr. Phil and thought, in Baylen’s voice, to myself, “you’re bald”, and smiled. We shouldn’t mock anybody with disabilities they can’t control. People with tics can’t control those. We can control when we say her tics. Choose wisely.

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OfficerBarbier Mar 17, 2026 +18

Her parents named her Baylen?

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Phoenix_Rising42069 Mar 17, 2026 +16

At least they didn’t spell it Beighlen

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LostSuspect413 Mar 17, 2026 +4

Almost all her siblings have names I never heard before.

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WeirdcoolWilson Mar 17, 2026 -6

There was literally a TLC reality series about this! She capitalized on her Tourette’s Syndrome and now she’s all indignant over the mockery??

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Sufficient-Lime-4858 Mar 17, 2026 +19

??? “The audacity she has to star in a reality show centered around raising awareness to the challenges in navigating the world with Tourette’s syndrome and advocating yourself but also be upset when people make fun of her disability that is classically largely misunderstood.” Do you hear yourself? Why do people act like being in the public eye means you’re not allowed to ever feel bad when the public ridicules you?? Especially for something that you physically cannot control?? May as well say she’s asking for it.

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Harmony_w Mar 18, 2026 -2

That's exactly what they are saying. But with more words.

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blindreefer Mar 17, 2026 +11

There’s absolutely no logic to that statement

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NoTitleChamp Mar 17, 2026 +20

So thats a green light for people to mock a disability? Jfc.

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Scarlett_Billows Mar 17, 2026 +14

That seems to be the common sentiment here. People are assholes and looking for any reason to justify it

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Ok-Highway-5247 Mar 19, 2026 +1

I have to agree with Baylen. We shouldn’t be mimicking her ticks and parodying them.

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lesbian__overlord Mar 19, 2026 +1

i just know all the people here calling her a faker and an attention w**** were tourette's experts two weeks ago when they could use the BAFTAs and BBC f****** seven different people over as an excuse to be racist. but now tourette's is fake when it's an opportunity to be misogynistic.

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choppakilla Mar 18, 2026 +1

You can’t say Tippity tap the rotisserie chicken n not expect people not to pick it up.

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Gatodeluna Mar 17, 2026 -9

She *chose* to put herself out there as an advocate-crusader-influencer. She chose to have a spotlight shone on *her*, not just on Tourette’s. You can’t tell me her reasons are utterly selfless.

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LostSuspect413 Mar 17, 2026 +7

Maybe is the only way she can make some money. It's not like she can have a normal education in a classroom, and I bet she doesn't have a lot of job prospects either.

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Prestigious_Fella_21 Mar 18, 2026 +2

And people choose to be assholes about it. Does she deserve it is the question

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paul_having_a_ball Mar 18, 2026 -1

And that is what we demand of her. Utter selflessness.

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Growbird Mar 18, 2026 -14

Funny how a lot of people including women would have a problem with it but they would be the first to use a short man as a punchline.

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CharlesDingus_ah_um Mar 18, 2026 +2

As a short man what does this have to do with us…

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smothered-onion Mar 18, 2026 +5

Yikes. No need to come for Colin like that. And most of us don’t reduce women to “tit” size in 2026.

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