Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. @MarvelStudios needs to fix this. #SpiderManFarFromHome trailer shows @SamuelLJackson telling @TomHolland1996 that his friend could swallow his tongue. This DOES NOT happen, and this myth is directly responsible for many injuries inflicted on people with #epilepsy....

2...all the top references to tongue swallow in search are about epilepsy and how such a thing is impossible. But somehow some ridiculous old wives tale got started decades ago that people swallow tongues in seizures, so you must put a spoon in their mouths. THIS IS DANGEROUS....

3....when someone has convulsions, their jaws crush down tight. If you have a spoon in your mouth, your teeth break. I have met a number of people with epilepsy who required plates and bridges for their teeth in their 20s, because someone stuck a spoon in their mouths to stop...

4...non-existent tongue swallowing. This is not a minor thing. We are assaulted over a myth. And no matter how much we try to communicate this is a fiction, we keep getting assaulted over it.

People in the epilepsy community have been speaking more and more to the public about..

5...this, trying to get the word out that tongue swallowing is not real, and that this myth is hurting people. I say it on every stop on my book tour.

But every effort to protect ourselves goes out the window if @MarvelStudios has a throwaway line in a major movie about....

6...tongue swallowing. Please, @MarvelStudios - please overdub that line. Do not undermine our fight to kill a myth that is hurting so many people. Those few words by @SamuelLJackson will undo years of painstaking effort.

The overdub could be....

7..."might want to roll him over so he doesnt choke on his spit" or something like that. But if a movie like #SpiderManFarFromHome perpetuates the tongue swallowing myth, more people who cannot defend themselves are going to get hurt - and some permanently.