Yes, You Can Catch Insanity...from PANDAS???
9One day in March 2010, Isak McCune started clearing his throat with a forceful, violent sound. The New Hampshire toddler was 3, with a Beatles mop of blonde hair and a cuddly, loving personality. His parents had no idea where the guttural tic came from. They figured it was springtime allergies.
Soon after, Isak began to scream as if in pain and grunt at his parents and peers. When he wasn’t throwing hours-long tantrums, he stared vacantly into space. By the time he was 5, he was plagued by insistent, terrifying thoughts of death. “He would smash his head into windows and glass whenever the word ‘dead’ came into his head. He was trying to drown out the thoughts,” says his mother, Robin McCune, a baker in Goffstown, a small town outside Manchester, New Hampshire’s largest city…
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What an amazing read!
Spoiler alert: the article has absolutely nothing to do with cute and cuddly black and white bears.
I thought this was going to be a story about something like toxoplasma gondii, a parasite found in cat poop that makes us into slaves to felines.
At first I thought I was in r/nosleep.
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Pandas will friggin kill you
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/image TeeTurtle Sad Panda
Very interesting. And that kid is gorgeous… but something about that pic makes me want to call him Damien.
Really interesting article, thanks for sharing.
@cinoclav I’d never seen this magazine Nautilus before. I used to read a lot more but I’ve gotten lazy what with the clickity-clickity, scroll-scroll, move-on move-on way I “read” now.