Tourette's Syndrome

[slofox]

Not sure whether this is a rant an' rave or a jokes and humour - bit of both really...

When I was a kid, I was a classical Touretter...nervous tics and twitches and ace profanity, even when very young. (Course the ole man swore like fuck too, so...)

In later life it all faded into the background somewhat and for all intents and purposes I would appear to be a normal citizen. No more twitchy stuff and most of the time the profanity is..errrmmm..."controlled".

But on the odd occasion (usually when I am alone), it just seems to jump out and remind me of what used to be. Case in point...

Last Friday I was price labelling some bottles to go on the shelf. The heat and humidity meant that the labels were not adhering to the bottles very well and I was becoming a little ruffled as they repeatedly fell off...

There were twelve bottles lined up and as I tried to pick them up (six at a time) more labels fell back off. My response, quite out of the blue was that pure Tourette's rage.."FUCKING GODDAM FUCKING SODDING FUCKING BASTARD FUCKING CUNT!!!" just kind of slipped out before I knew it...

And then I looked up to find a dude waiting at the counter to buy a bag of coffee... Goddam doorbell hadn't buzzed had it?

He kinda looked like he was about to sprint out the door before this madman got near him...



I bet I don't see him again...

[Dadpole]

That's not Tourette's. That is a normal reaction to a day when the Universe is out to piss you off.

[scissorhands]

Who from history has had Tourettes?

The meltdowns people with aspergers are sometimes prone toward, sound a lot like a swearing rage of tourettes

[Camshaft]

they need to bring tht tourettes show back to tv, best reality show ever

[scissorhands]

List of Famous People with Tourettes Syndrome:


Tim Howard - Once known as Tim Dawg, Howard managed to become the goal keeper for Manchester United of England despite his tourettes Syndrome. It was an everyday battle but he kept it under control, especially when he was to be catching and blocking 65 miles an hour curve soccer balls from the best players in the world. Tim says it's just a battle of the will, he just constantly fights what his mind tells his body to do, he has been capable of shutting out tourettes.


Howard Hughes - Being one of the richest man in history Howard Hughes had always been lost in dreams, most of them being born from movies or figments of imagination. He seemed to dislike or even fear all that was too real, although his career in aviation would prove otherwise. He was but a mystery, when all the fame was directed towards him he would hide in the darkest of places, for he would not like other people. As he got older everything seemed like an enemy to him, he would not touch anything without gloves or tissue to protect his hands from what he saw as bacteria and disease. Then he would contradict his excess of sanity by barely eating and taking too much medecine. He was one of the richest man yet he was ill, and suffered from tourettes.


Marc Summers - Marc Summers was a popular tv host and entertainer, he had an obsessive-compulsive disorder and would do everything a certain way, anything else wouldn't work. When he would take a shower at a hotel he would wear flip-flops to avoid touching the floor, he would not remove them until inside the shower. Marc would have a great fear of losing, he wanted to win whatever happened regardless of who he was playing with. When it was time to play basket-ball or monopoly he would not accept losing, even to his children.


Dan Ackroyd - Aykroyd was born on Dominion Day at the Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dan was diagnosed with tourette's and asperger syndromes at an early age, but the symptoms seem to have disappeared when he was around 14. The diagnosis of Asperger syndrome did not exist in the 1960s, when Aykroyd was a preteen. It involved mostly grunting and physical tics through nervousness.


David Beckham - David suffers from OCD and it manifests itself through constant cleanliness and perfection of all that is around him. Anything out of order is enough to cause a conflict and must be attended to immediately. Examples of this complete order is that everything must be in pairs, if there are three books on a table one must be added, or one must be removed. Only 2% of the population suffer from this strong OCD.


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - (1756-1791) In late 1992, the British Medical Journal published an article by endocrinologist Benjamin Simkin, M.D. speculating that Mozart had Tourette Syndrome. Apparently he wrote several letters to his cousin Maria that contained many obscene words, especially words having to do with bodily functions. It has also been documented that he was hyperactive, suffered from mood swings, had tics, and loved made-up words. Despite these behaviors, we will probably never know for certain whether Mozart had TS.


Dr. Samuel Johnson - Samuel Johnson LL.D. MA (September 18 1709 - 13 December 1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, is one of England's best known literary figures, an essayist, biographer, lexicographer and a critic of English Literature. He was also a great wit and prose stylist, well known for his aphorisms. Johnson had poor eyesight, was hard of hearing and had a scarred face as a result of childhood scrofula. He also had a number of tics and other involuntary movements, the symptoms described by Boswell suggest that Johnson had Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder.


Jim Eisenreich - James Michael Eisenreich (born April 18, 1959 St. Cloud, Minnesota) is a former major league baseball player utility player with a 15-year career. He played for the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals of the American League, and the Philadelphia Phillies, Florida Marlins and Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League. Eisenreich has Tourette syndrome (TS) his condition caused him to go on to the voluntary retirement list between 1984 and 1987 while he was undergoing treatment. Eisenreich resides in the Kansas City area with his wife Leann and four children. They run the Jim Eisenreich Foundation for Children with Tourette Syndrome which they founded in 1996. It helps children with TS to achieve personal success.


Michael Wolff - Michael Wolff (born September 19, 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and actor. Wolff is the leader of a jazz band, Michael Wolff and Impure Thoughts, which features Indian tabla player Badal Roy, drummer Mike Clark and electric bassist John B. Williams. Wolff has Tourette syndrome he serves on the Board of Directors of the Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA), and is involved with mentoring children with Tourette's through the chapters of the TSA.

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[Capt M Stubbing]

Wow, that got really farkin heavy all of a sudden...........

[Mom]

I bet I don't see him again...

I would relax, I think we all have an element of Tourettes There are a few words I try not to use and some I would never consider using they offend me so much.

Seems if pressed I am fully capable of delivering them out to inanimate objects

Been a while I admit, and the offending words only pass my lips now if I retell the story (in person) suufice it to say I had some realy colourfully named curtains in a house I once lived in

[warewolf]

David Beckham - David suffers from OCD and it manifests itself through constant cleanliness and perfection of all that is around him. Anything out of order is enough to cause a conflict and must be attended to immediately. Examples of this complete order is that everything must be in pairs, if there are three books on a table one must be added, or one must be removed. Only 2% of the population suffer from this strong OCD.

John Kocinski was a bit like that. Had to have his pit garage and gear arranged 'just so'. High level team mates used to psyche him out by moving things or making them 'dirty'.

[Banditbandit]

Beckham's OCD doesn't surprise me at all ... It's obvious if you know what to look for. The precise clipped voice is very non-neurotypical ..

[avgas]

I used to have tourettes.
But then I upgraded to electric start vehicles.

[riffer]

I'm an aspie who also suffered tourettes mainly during puberty.

At the time it seemed a double blow - the social interaction difficulties combining with nervous tics, head shakes, and involuntary spasms and movements.

A lot of people think tourettes is about the swearing and don't realise the driving forces behind it.

Try to think of it as an overwhelming force or impulse that starts in your core, and drives through your whole body taking your soul with it and trying to drag it out through the centre of your chest. And the only way to relieve the pressure is to spasm, or shout, grunt, any kind of vocalisation - I tended to grunt rather than swear.

Either way, no-one understands it, half think you're a fucking weirdo, the rest are just embarrassed of you. And a significant majority of them want to smack you over for "being a queer cunt". At least that's how it was for me.

I withdrew into music for many years, and tbh although I can fool most of you into thinking I'm quite social, it's pretty damn hard. I sort of grew out of it. Now I hide it a lot by tapping, or doing it really quiet so you won't hear me.

Judge me how you like; after all this time I don't give a shit anymore.