‘Allergic to smell of homework’: Chinese boy claims in amusing viral video that allergy spends 5 years ‘incubating’
- A mother films her son telling an inventive story about a curious allergy to get out of homework and posts it online where it has since gone viral
- Chinese students spend an average of 2.82 hours a day on homework, 3.7 times more than peers in Japan and 4.8 times higher than in South Korea
An 11-year-old boy pretending to be allergic to homework by shedding tears has gone viral on mainland Chinese social media after his mother filmed the incident and posted a video online.
The unnamed Primary Five boy from Jiangsu province in eastern China appears in the video trying to get out of doing his homework by telling his mother that he can’t stop crying because of the allergy, local news platform Xibu Juece reported.
Last Sunday, he had spent some time doing his homework when he appeared to become unwell and can be seen in the video holding a tissue over his nose.
The boy’s mother, surnamed Yu, noticed and asked what was wrong, to which he replied that he had suffered from an allergic reaction.
“What are you allergic to?” Yu asked.
The boy replied: “I’m allergic to the smell of the books.”
Yu continued: “Are you saying you can’t do homework now? How can we stop, or ease the symptoms?”