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I had a coworker with Tourette’s who was just the loveliest girl. Raised very sheltered and had never had a boyfriend and would never say shoo to a fly, but in her 20s she hit her head on the door of a tumble dryer and got a pretty severe brain injury which caused trauma induced Tourette’s. She mostly had tics, but would occasionally have verbal outbursts.
My favourite was in a quiet and tense executive meeting, some birds were squawking outside the window and she roars at the top of her lungs “don’t cha hate those FUCKIN BIRDSSSS” our CEO lost it and we all had a giggle at that one. Moral of the story not all Tourette’s is super explicit I guess.
And he knows this is a special moment for her that she may not see as being as funny as others. I see a man that loves a woman and respects the moment they want to have despite the disability.
It's funny to watch his interview since he sounds like a toned down Hank Hill, and the disconnect between his face and that voice is trippy. Here's a good interview
She thought it would be funny on their first date to act like she has tourette's. But she actually fell in love with the guy and now she is pot committed and is dying with the lie.
Her tourette blurts have gotten more frequent, longer, and clearer the longer the show is on the air. Blurting out full sentences and flipping people off? When is the statement from Discovery/TLC saying they believed her.
I knew a guy with Tourettes. He would grunt occasionally.
Of the people with Tourette's, only a small fraction exhibit coprolalia (involuntary shouting), it's relatively rare. Years of seeing the fucking Tourette's Guy have left me skeptical of anyone doing it on camera (I have no problem believing she's real, I just mean I'm skeptical of that genre of content).
I knew a guy with Tourette’s like hers. It was hell. His ticks would change. He would flip people off while saying crazy shit. Would constantly get kicked out of places. It’s a real thing that happens. His ticks was very similar to hers.
I used to install internet and this guy started screaming and cursing at me in his house when I was talking to him about the wires I was going to have to run. I finally told him I'm going to go out to my truck and cancel the ticket, it will take about 10 minutes. A couple minutes later he came out and apologized saying he had tourettes and that he would go work in his backyard and I should just go do whatever I needed to.
He managed to keep mostly quiet when he came back in and I did a final turnover with him.
I feel like if you know youre prone to outbursts like that, just open with " I have turrets" in your greeting. Get that shit out in the open to avoid crazy interactions.
West Virginia is chocked full of very ignorant people. You really have to be a straight white Christian or they will make your life hell. Source: I grew up there.
I think the simplest (not the most precise) way to divide up the US is that classic map that puts it in quarters:
NW: Acts nice, is nice
SW: Acts mean, is mean
NE: Acts mean, is nice
SE: Acts nice, is mean
Source: me, 25+ years in NE, almost 20 years in SE. And WV kinda sits right between them.
Physical tics are more common than verbal, people are just more aware of verbal ones.
Its in essence just a strong compulsion to do something you don't need or want to do. Depending on severity you might be able to wait it out until the compulsionn fades in ideal circumstances but high stress events (like televised awards, weddings, meetings) the drive gets too strong.
I used to have a friend who had a tic to touch their forehead to their knee, often while we were walking.
I worked with a guy that had Tourette's years ago, nice guy, we became work buddies. His tic was that he would "woop." It would come on as fits where he couldn't stop making the "woop" or "woop woop" sound about every ten seconds or so for a couple of minutes. He did it pretty quietly so most wouldn't notice, but it was a labor job we worked side by side in a crew. Needless to say, I'm glad he was a great sport about it. Hope he's doing well, wherever he is.
I worked with a guy with The Woops, but we worked in a call centre, calls could go for about 20-30 minutes, so he just had somehow learned to manage or put off the Woops for short periods, but then sometimes after a call he had to go for a break and get em all out. Occasionally a small woop would slip into a call and he'd pass it off as a hiccough or a sneeze and just carry on.
I think it’s about the brain betraying you and thinking of the most awkward thing to say and chucking that into the “say immediately” queue in your brain
There was a guy I used to see locally that would walk around shouting "the best of luck to you". No idea what condition he had but that's a pretty wholesome thing to be shouting.
Reminds me of whatever disease went through the town in deadwood on the show and what's his name, dying or sick and dying, just kept yelling "I APOLOGIZE!". over and over again.
I have it (nonverbal version thank god) and it's basically like an intrusive thought where you know you shouldn't do it, but it's like trying to tell yourself you don't need to pee right now - it just makes you want to do it more. Stressful situations like a being in front of a lot of people can make it worse and harder to suppress.
Yeah, I have OCD with some motor tics (brow furrowing, blinking, touching my nose with my upper lip, etc.) but I can usually suppress or hide it in public (even though inside my head it’s going NEED THE THING DO THE THING CLEAR THE BUFFER or I’m like ready to jump out of my skin until I can do it discreetly). Or sometimes I just forget about the urge if I hold off beyond peak tension.
But if I’m at home I’ll just tic the fuck out until I’m comfortable (which is a while). It’s like “this muscle doesn’t feel right just yet, let me get a few more in there.”
I always imagined Tourette’s is like that but on nightmare mode.
I have OCD as well. My understanding is that OCD is compulsive whereas Tourette’s is involuntary. A person with OCD still has control over their own muscles and body. Someone with Tourette’s does not, and the body/brain tics on its own.
Stopping a tic is like a cartoon character holding in a sneeze and trying to be quiet. The pressure gets worse the more time goes on. If you aren't trying to stop a tic it's just a thing you do without thinking.
I have OCD and Tourette's so for some reason I touch food to my nose before I eat it. My tics aren't bad since I got older. Most people don't notice the nose thing unless it's an intimate encounter and they are sitting directly across from me. If a woman on a date notice is I'll explain it and offer to order a bowl of soup if she doesn't believe me. It's a pretty good litmus test.
It's because of the exact place of the brain that is affected by Tourette. There are some people that just randomly scream without saying slurs, I have a friend with Tourette's that goes "AAAAAAAAAA" out of nowhere, it always scares the shit out of me.
If you watch the show, she has lots of non foul language tics, both verbal and physical. The foul language tics are just the most sensational, so they get shown more.
Foul language is stored in the deeper/reptilian brain.
If you started forgetting the English language, the last thing you'd ever forget would be the swear words even if they weren't the first thing you learnt.
Can confirm. My grandmother suffered from Alzheimer's. As she deteriorated, she became non-communicative and only quietly repeated the word "yeah" to anyone speaking or conversations she overheard. The only exception was if she saw someone yelling or being violent on TV, to which she would harshly yell out "bitch!" or "shut up!" at the screen.
Yeah, i mean im not doctor but i get ticks sometimes. The slow deliberate swivel with drawn out words just makes zero sense. Ive never seen someone suffering tourettes do anything like that
You can even look up some interviews with the sister she doesn't like and some other odd family members who can all confirm this is for a bit. She was never like this until people started shoving cameras in her face and suddenly it's "ReereeeEEE I have tourettes"
When I worked my last job we had a female customer with Tourette’s that would come in occasionally. Her tics were that she’d make an occasional clicking noise and then every time she would check out and swipe her card in the card reader she’d say “Zing! It’s a thing!”
I’m calling bullshit on this. Her Tourette’s has gotten significantly and verbal over the seasons. I’m convinced she’s doing it for the show. If you’ve ever been around a person with Tourette’s, you know their behaviors are very repetitive. She seems to come up with new dialogue constantly.
What, you've never seen someone with Tourette's flip off everyone around them while telling them bitches to fuck themselves specifically and seen everyone express disbelief that they actually signed the dotted line for this bullshit deal before?
A coworker of mine has very aggressive Tourette’s and one of his common tics is flipping the bird, sometimes the double bird. He makes sure to let everyone know when they first meet him and tbh you get used to it pretty quickly.
Yes, it can be. I have motor Tourette’s and I’ll put the middle finger up on my right hand. But I do put my arm down and try to hide it, but I can’t stop it.
I mean the more clips like this I see, the more that I feel like Tourette’s is just disabling the inappropriate “don’t say that” filter that stops our intrusive thoughts.
I had a friend in high school that cursed all the time and stuttered so I thought hey he had Tourette’s and told him to get checked out by a neurologist. He told me a few weeks later that he got evaluated and doesn’t have Tourette’s. He just curses and stutters.
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