Tourettes - I swear I can't help it...

Anyone see it? Repeated last night.

Don't think I've ever seen a funnier documentary. Oh and a sadder documentary. Actually I have but, bah. Anyway, some real laugh out loud moments, like the room with tourette's sufferers who are triggering each others tics. But many scenes where...well I don't mind telling you fellow WATMMers, they darn near brought a man to tears, like when one of the subjects spoke of his horrific time at school and they show a video of him as a teenager eating on his own, or another clip of a 7 year old crying because obviously he cannot understand what is happening to him. Great programme, light hearted and profound. Think podcast on BBC for those what live within BBC land, clips on youtube as well...

Hahaha - I actually feel really bad about the dog. Poor thing.

But I actually watched a program about kids with Tourettes (and all the different kinds of tourettes there are) a couple of months ago and it was really really sad but also quite interesting. Some of the kids said that trying to hold back the cuss words was like trying to hold back a sneeze.

not gonna watch the highlights, I'm taking your word for it and gonna try to find a divx of the whole things

fucking LOL at 2:16 in the video

watching it

So awesome.

i know someone with tourettes. he doesn't like discussing it with people, perhaps only with people he trusts very well.

his type of tourettes matches the stereotype that annoys most people with tourettes.

one of his friends knocked up a girl, and he announced it to a room full of people who didn't know in a tic.

he's been viciously beaten more than twice by angry African american guys at partys for saying " nigger" in a tic

some people might criticize him for being a faker,

but he clearly does not enjoy when it happens.

his tics range from verbal expletives, to yelling or screaming melodies, to socially anxious reactions of various sorts, even poking you or honking a car horn.

it makes him mad at himself, every time. some tics aren't nearly as bad, just random thoughts he lets out i think.

most people who know him or meet him tend to catch on quickly that he can't help it. most are somewhat sympathetic, they smile and laugh a little then move on when it happens. but his friends talk differently when he isn't around. they don't like inviting him to places because his tics attract negative attention to the group. he's a burden to them i guess, but he isn't shunned entirely.

  On 3/18/2010 at 5:21 PM, fiznuthian said:

i know someone with tourettes. he doesn't like discussing it with people, perhaps only with people he trusts very well.

his type of tourettes matches the stereotype that annoys most people with tourettes.

one of his friends knocked up a girl, and he announced it to a room full of people who didn't know in a tic.

he's been viciously beaten more than twice by angry African american guys at partys for saying " nigger" in a tic

 

some people might criticize him for being a faker,

but he clearly does not enjoy when it happens.

his tics range from verbal expletives, to yelling or screaming melodies, to socially anxious reactions of various sorts, even poking you or honking a car horn.

it makes him mad at himself, every time. some tics aren't nearly as bad, just random thoughts he lets out i think.

 

most people who know him or meet him tend to catch on quickly that he can't help it. most are somewhat sympathetic, they smile and laugh a little then move on when it happens. but his friends talk differently when he isn't around. they don't like inviting him to places because his tics attract negative attention to the group. he's a burden to them i guess, but he isn't shunned entirely.

Way to bring down the thread Fiz.

Joking aside, poor guy.

i googled i swear i can't help it and this thread was on the second page

i watched a show and the dr.'s got rid of a tic for a girl by placing an electrode in her head and then cranking it's power voltage etc etc TRUE STORY, bitch, fuck, shit

CUNT!

PISS coming out of my ASS.

yeah i was diagnosed with it as a kid, and through school it'd fluctuate from things like clearing throat/sniffing/coughing, that kinda stuff.

thankfully it was never the stereotypical swearing outbursts or anything like that. i think maybe when i was 6 or whatever i knew swearwords were bad and as a result those words would keep playing through my mind because i knew i wasn't *supposed* to think of them. for you to blurt out specific cusswords, it's only going to happen as a function of you knowing that you're not supposed to i guess.

anyway yeah i got more of a handle on it as i got older, the only subconscious symptom now is excessive blinking, and even then it's more when i'm drinking or under a lot of stress that it really comes to the surface. everything else is almost 100% controllable. guess i'm lucky to only have a mild case though.

i think i must have torrettes, it would explain some of the things that come out of my mouth when i'm "talking" to my wife.