Baylen Dupree reveals: A neurologist told her that she “does not belong” in society.

Baylen Dupree is opening up about the early days of learning that she had Tourette syndrome.

While appearing on the May 26 episode of Howie Mandel’s Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast, the Baylen Out Loud star, 23, opened up about an incident that occurred between her and a neurologist shortly after she first received her diagnosis.

“My Tourette syndrome got so bad to the point where all of my doctors took my diagnosis away,” Dupree recalled, while speaking with Mandel and his daughter and co-host Jacelyn Shultz.

The Tourette’s awareness advocate, who boasts over 15 million followers across TikTok and Instagram, said that after seeing how “bad” her symptoms had become, he rescinded his initial diagnosis. “He’s like, ‘I have no idea what you have, but you don’t belong in society. You don’t belong in college. You shouldn’t get a job. You shouldn’t work. You shouldn’t drive.'”

In disbelief, Mandel asked Dupree, “Who’s saying that?”

“My doctor, my neurologist … literally looked at my mom and said, ‘She will do nothing,'” Dupree, who recently tied the knot with longtime partner Colin Dooley, added. “That’s literally what they told her.”

“What kind of doctor is this?” Mandel asked, again in disbelief.

“So he was a neurologist, but… ” Dupree started, before Mandel interrupted again to say, “Was? He should be ‘was.'” Dupree went on to reveal that the neurologist did not specialize in movement disorders, which she and her family found out after he “undiagnosed” her.

“He basically was like, ‘I can’t even see you as a patient anymore because I don’t even specialize in Tourette’s.’ And we’re like, ‘Well, why didn’t you tell us this at the beginning?'”

Dupree then said that about five months after the incident with the neurologist, she and her family went to the Mayo Clinic, where a doctor confirmed that her diagnosis was “100%” Tourette’s.”

Dupree was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome in 2020 and has used her platform to raise awareness and shut down misconceptions about the disorder. She has accumulated more than 12 million followers on TikTok and 2 million followers on Instagram, which led to her TLC show Baylen Out Loud last year.

Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by rapid, repetitive, involuntary muscle movements or sounds (tics), according to the Mayo Clinic.

The tics typically begin to manifest between the ages of 2 and 15, and males are three to four times more likely to develop the disorder than females.

Tics can range from mild to severe, and, in some cases, they can be debilitating, according to the Tourette Association of America.

The frequency and severity of tics also change regularly, and can be in response to factors like stress, anxiety, excitement, fatigue, illness and more. One out of every 160 children between the ages of 5-17 in the United States is diagnosed with Tourette syndrome.