“He kept saying this word, ‘looksmaxxing,’ and I didn’t even know what it meant,” she said. “I had to look it up. I still can’t believe any of this is real.”

This is, perhaps, the most warranted confusion a parent has ever felt. Could you imagine discovering that your teen has been producing androgens in your garage to escape social stigma, and is potentially dying as a result? People joke about parenting books not preparing you for everything, but this might genuinely require therapy. What do you even do with this information? What's to glean??