Post-Gaokao Phone Binge Leaves a Teen Unable to Walk
In Taizhou, months of marathon phone scrolling left a recent graduate's legs out of service.
Picture a dim bedroom in Taizhou: curtains pulled tight, phone glowing like a small sun, a teen fused with his mattress in a perfect human–bed hybrid. That, somehow, counts as a post-Gaokao lifestyle.
His family says he spent months horizontal, scrolling more than five hours a day, barely moving a muscle. Then one morning, his legs quietly refused the assignment.
His screen world kept expanding; his real one shrank to mattress-sized. The exams freed his mind — his legs, however, filed a formal protest.