do you remember getting (literal, not metaphorical!) "growing pains" as a child or adolescent?
- yes52.9%
- no42.9%
- I don't know4.2%
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whoa what? had no idea this was literal. don’t remember anything remotely like this
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yeah, when I was 5 or 6 I would be up all night with my legs hurting
similar around 10-12
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fwiw mayo clinic says there’s “no evidence” (although god only knows what that means) that growing pains have anything to do with growth
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“theories of causation” from wikipedia
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the very next sentence says restless leg syndrome is sometimes misdiagnosed as growing pains which is interesting to me bc i shook my legs *constantly* growing up and i wonder if that was protective?
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hmmmm
maybe this is more Clusterfuck Disorder stuff
curious about the comorbidity of all of those proposed causes (hypermobility, family stress, etc) with ADHD/autism/etc
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