Flu Shot Causes Girl to Walk Backwards

[ComicChick]

<<< has never had chicken pox

 

[bullets]

<<<< has had chicken pox . Also I'm strangley attracted to backwards girl but not if she gets cured.

 

[Kane52630]

<<< has never had chicken pox

from what ive heard if you didnt get them as a child then you will get them as a adult.

 

[ComicChick]

as adults theyre called shingles *cringe*

 

[Kane52630]

thank god i got my chickenpox when i was 3

 

[terry78]

That **** can kill you when you're an adult apparently.

 

[Deaths Head II]

Well there's a vaccine for chicken pox now. Thank god for me because I never got it as a kid and I was not looking forward to getting it as an adult.

As for the story, I'm glad she's better. I was feeling super bad about laughing at the video.

 

[Lighthouse]

Shingles are absolutely awful. I had chicken pox when I was little, and when I was on chemo medication as a teenager, and got shingles. It hurts, it's really gross, and I'm pretty sure I have nerve damage from it. The parts of my skin that it covered have felt a little numb ever since.

 

[Harry_Lime02]

Peter Parker got to shoot web and climb up walls. She got a lame superpower.

 

[Harry_Lime02]

In all seriousness though, "flu shots are lethal" makes a great story, but millions of people get flu shots, and it's inevitable that some will have bad things happen to them, not because of the shots, but because bad things do happen sometimes.

 

[SuperFerret]

Somehow I just think this is fake or there's something else at play here. It's like "Okay, all your nerves and muscles work, but they only work BACKWARDS!!"

 

[Carcharodon]

I'm doubting she was ever sick in the first place.

Out of curiosity, what lighthouse is that in your avatar?

 

[Dark Victory]

I still don't believe for a second that this girl wasn't faking. You're perfectly normal when you walk backwards and run, but once you start walking...

 

[Carcharodon]

I still don't believe for a second that this girl wasn't faking. You're perfectly normal when you walk backwards and run, but once you start walking...

Your knowledge of neurology must be immense. I mean, the doctors diagnosed her as having dystonia, a very real neurological disorder, but what do they know? They should have asked you first, in my opinion.

 

[The Battousai]

It could easily have been psyhcosomatically induced dystonia and still be diagnosed.

 

[katie_girl09]

Your knowledge of neurology must be immense. I mean, the doctors diagnosed her as having dystonia, a very real neurological disorder, but what do they know? They should have asked you first, in my opinion.

But he said he didn't believe the girl was faking it. And he said believe.

 

[Carcharodon]

It could easily have been psyhcosomatically induced dystonia and still be diagnosed.

That's still not faking, though. It also raises the question of how she was cured.

But he said he didn't believe the girl was faking it. And he said believe.

1) A belief based on ignorance is still ignorant.

2) Let's take another look at his post, shall we?

I still don't believe for a second that this girl wasn't faking. You're perfectly normal when you walk backwards and run, but once you start walking...

He DOESN'T believe that she WASN'T faking.

I have fairly decent reading and comprehension skills, thank you very much.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I think that it would be exceptionally difficult to fake that disorder for any period of time longer than 40 minutes. Go ahead. Try to do it all day today. You can run and walk backward but you can't walk or sit still without freaking out.

 

[Carcharodon]

I think that it would be exceptionally difficult to fake that disorder for any period of time longer than 40 minutes. Go ahead. Try to do it all day today. You can run and walk backward but you can't walk or sit still without freaking out.

On the other hand, cheerleaders ARE athletes in their own right (in my opinion). She probably has a good level of endurance.

However, I fail to see any motive for faking this disorder, let alone any real capability of doing so (as you pointed out). It just about ruined her greatest ambition. What did she have to gain?

 

[Majic Walrus]

Again. It could've been a psychological malfunction that caused to her to do this, however I just really really doubt that.

Also there are several kinds of dystonia and this one is uncommon but not unheard of and there are actually tests that doctors ran and everything. Medical experts and I agree, she actually had the disorder and is recovering.

 

[katie_girl09]

1) A belief based on ignorance is still ignorant.

But to say that you believe something isn't necessarily saying that it is going to be fact. There is a difference between saying that you don't believe someone and saying that you know they are faking isn't there? One is implying an opinion and the other is stating a fact.

Seriously though, we know you're smart. But do you have to be condescending?

 

[Carcharodon]

But to say that you believe something isn't necessarily saying that it is going to be fact. There is a difference between saying that you don't believe someone and saying that you know they are faking isn't there? One is implying an opinion and the other is stating a fact.

None of this refutes my original point: a belief based on ignorance is still ignorant. I never made any claim with respect to the factual basis of his belief. I just found it amusing that because he was ignorant of the condition itself, his opinion was that she must be faking.

Seriously though, we know you're smart. But do you have to be condescending?

Which part of that post was condescending? I never implied superiority to you, nor did I behave as though I were consciously descending from some superior rank or position. That's the definition of condescending. I merely made a statement of my own proficiency.

In other words, stop being so damn sensitive.

 

[Majic Walrus]

None of this refutes my original point: a belief based on ignorance is still ignorant. I never made any claim with respect to the factual basis of his belief. I just found it amusing that because he was ignorant of the condition itself, his opinion was that she must be faking.

Agreed. Furthermore I will say that a belief based on ignorance is still ignorant even if it is right.

Which part of that post was condescending? I never implied superiority to you, nor did I behave as though I were consciously descending from some superior rank or position. That's the definition of condescending. I merely made a statement of my own proficiency.

In other words, stop being so damn sensitive.

I love you Carch, but the bolded and reded words up there. They are pretty condescending. As in you had to explain what condescending was because it was so obvious that no one else knew.

 

[Heretic]

Anyone who cared to look would know that vaccines are chock full of things that can kill you. Heck, the EPA lists anything over 200 ppb of mercury to be a toxic waste...yet flu and tetanus shots have at least 250 TIMES more than that.

 

[Majic Walrus]

In the pharmaceutical companies defense something's status as an Environmental Hazard from the EPA isn't nearly as important as it's status with the FDA.