Ad syndrome takes toll on children – Jeff Pan

From China Daily:

Advertisers are going into overdrive to reach their targets, and their overwhelming efforts paid off as it becomes almost impossible for anyone to escape from ads, but besides big companies, young kids are paying the price, too.

“Liang Liang, come here to use the washroom,” asked the teacher, but the five-year-old boy astonished his teacher with an advertisement punch line “frequent urination, urgent urination, and delayed urination.”

Liang Liang, who keeps himself in fashion of the latest advertisements by frequently speaking them out, is a kid suffering from autism in Qiseguang Children Potentiality Exploration Center in Northeast China’s Jilin Province. A lot of other kids in the center suffering from the same disease do not like to talk much, but once they open their mouths, it’s usually an advertisement line. [Full Text]

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