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From straight-A student to digital addict’: How alarming rise of ‘Brain Rot’ is rewiring young minds
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Joanne Hunter, a single mother, recalls the day she discovered her son’s online interactions spiralling out of control. The Irish expat, who raised her son in Madrid before moving to Dubai, recalls a boy who excelled academically, loved playing drums in his school band, and thrived in every sense of the word. “He was a straight-A student, academically brilliant, and deeply involved in extracurricular activities. Everything was perfect,” she says. But when he was handed his first smartphone at age ten, that idyllic picture began to blur.
