Meet Scott Lotan who suffers from laughter disorder like ‘Joker’

Joaquin Phoenix’s chilling uncontrollable laughter in Joker might have creeped you out. What if we tell you that re is someone out re who lives with a pathological laughing disorder much like villain Arthur Fleck.
A 47-year-old man in Virginia, USA, has same pathological laughing disorder, called pseudobulbar affect (or PBA), which is a symptom of his multiple sclerosis. condition leaves him to have uncontrollable laughing episodes that can last up to 10 minutes.  

A tough life for Lotan

In a recent interview with a UK-based social publisher, Scott Lotan explained how scary and painful se episodes are — y t only land him up in uncomfortable and weird situations, but also leave him exhausted.  

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He also recalled incidents when he was t served in a restaurant or was asked to leave because waiters felt uncomfortable around him. He also recalled how during his outings with friends, people with low self-esteem would end up fighting with him assuming that he is laughing at m.  

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'Can relate to Arthur Fleck's plight'

Lotan ded that he tries to be fully aware of himself in public and understand that his condition is beyond his control. But kwing that ors usually think of him as a freak, he ends up explaining to people that he isn’t an emotionally void psychopath.  

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Due to his condition, Lotan understands plight of Fleck in movie Joker. movie has shone a spotlight on broly misunderstood disorder.

He feels Phoenix did a phemenal job in depicting condition, where he is unable to stop laughing irrespective of circumstances. Lotan also found similarities between bus scene in movie and his real-life incidences, where he feels a deep sense of rejection. Just like Arthur, he also has to deal with misunderstandings and isolation on a regular basis because of something he literally has control over.

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