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Taylor Schilling Claims to have Quarantine Narcolepsy
But Chronic Illness is Not a Joke
Less than two weeks after World Narcolepsy Day, I see the term “quarantine narcolepsy” on my newsfeed. When I learned that it was a reference to narcolepsy on Late Night with Seth Meyers, I was vaguely curious.
Seth Meyers asked Taylor Schilling, known for her role as Piper in Orange is the New Black, if she has developed any new coping mechanisms during quarantine.
She responded, “I think I’ve become a bit of a narcoleptic person like I hear like oh ‘plague and pestilence’ and then I go [ugly face] and I pass out again. [laughing] Like I just leap or I’ll fall asleep in different areas and new places, it’s uncomfortable.”
Seth responds, “That’s interesting. So you just think you have like an internal kill switch that is just trying to help you opt-out of the more stressful moments that are happening right now?”
Is that what they think narcolepsy is? Do they think we just sleep to avoid stress?
