News Nation host Chris Cuomo was seen chuckling during an interview with a TikToker who has Touretteās Syndrome.
During the interview, Baylen Dupree, 21, who uses her TikTok to raise awareness and teach people about the neurological disorder, told Cuomo about the responses she receives from people who want to āeducateā themselves more about Touretteās Syndrome. At various instances in the interview, her Touretteās took over as she was speaking.
Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that causes repeated tics, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. The tics can be sudden, uncontrollable sounds or muscle jerks.
āI want people to learn that Touretteās is a neurological, involuntary motor and vocal disorder,ā Dupree said. āF**k off. F**k off. F**k off. I donāt tic 24/7, and thereās a lot ofā¦.little baby weiners. F**k off. F**k you, Chris. Thereās a lot of things that people donāt understand. Like, people think that cussing is with everyone who has Touretteās Syndrome, but itās only in 10 percent of people with Touretteās.ā
When asked by Cuomo whether people have become more understanding about Dupree having Touretteās Syndrome, or whether they are ādopesā like him who assume she is āacting,ā Dupree told him the responses from people are the āsame.ā
āI think thereās a lot more people that donāt understand what Touretteās is, and they like to educate themselves more,ā Dupree explained. āSo, I get thousands of DMs from parents, from teachers, from girls that have been diagnosed with Touretteās and they had to be kicked out of school for attention-seeking because they rip up their homework or do things like that. Iāve had parents reach out to me, asking me, āOh, my sonās coming home with a girlfriend and his girlfriend has Touretteās Syndrome.'ā
Dupree added, āI also get very evil people that will comment and say, like, go f**k yourself, Chris. Little baby weiners. Banana up your a**. Butter your own biscuit, fat a**,ā to which Cuomo could be seen visibly chuckling as she continues to say how people have told her that her āparents deserved to die in a car accidentā because sheās faking her condition.
Since being diagnosed with Touretteās Syndrome in 2018, Dupree has gone on to earn more than 9 million followers on TikTok as she strives to educate people on living with the neurological disorder.
In an interview with People magazine in May, Dupree revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, her tics increased, adding that it was āisolatingā and ādepressing.ā
