Kayla: Um, Mr. Marquez, I'm sorry to interrupt class, but it's actually super triggering for me to be reading a book about a disease right now… with everything I'm going through.
Evan Marquez: Because of everything you're going through? What are you going through, Kayla?
Kayla: The rest of the class sort of already knows about this. But recently... I was successfully diagnosed... with something called...
Becca: You're doing great, Kayla.
Jason: It's okay.
Chelsea: Be present with your illness, okay?
Kayla: Asymptomatic Tourette's.
Marquez: What?
Chelsea: So what Tourette's syndrome is, right--
Marquez: No, I know what Tourette's syndrome is.
Chelsea: Oh, great. Okay. So it sounds like you're halfway there, and you're taking an opportunity to be educated… which is honorable.
Marquez: Thank you.
Chelsea: So, Asymptomatic Tourette's, right? It's like Tourette's syndrome with the tics and, like, the hardship, right? But without any symptoms. So in its way, AT is harder. Because--
Marquez: What is AT? Oh, Asymptomatic Tourette's. Okay. Uh-huh.
Chelsea: It is harder. Because people have, like, actually no idea the battle that people like Kayla are fighting inside every day.
Becca: It's a silent killer.
Marquez: And someone actually diagnosed you with this?
Chelsea: It's disrespectful to ask that. I'm so sorry--
Kayla: It's okay. You can't blame people for making really huge mistakes when they haven't learned the etiquette. It's only self-diagnosable.
Marquez: I see.
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Satire, but this is the kind of thing "self diagnosis" is trying to pull.
