(March 8, 2019 at 9:03 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(March 8, 2019 at 6:31 pm)Shell B Wrote: I appreciate that! I'm a little passionate about the public perception of Tourette's Syndrome. It's hugely misunderstood. Word salad it is not.
Right then.
Around these here parts there is a semi-regular guest on talk radio who is a Tourettes sufferer. When one first hears it, one feels guilt at how funny such interviews are right up to the point when one comes to know the nature of the person and how she is fully aware of how it sounds.
If one pays attention, one learns that she simply cannot help it at all, but she is so self aware about it, and realises that it is funny as hell, that she is fondly held as one of the best interviewees ever. Somehow, she transcends predjudice by means of humour. It is a thing to behold.
Once one got over the random inserted expletives, she was a peach with a wicked sense of humour and a hatload of self awareness.
Brave woman.
That's coprolalia. Most Tourette's sufferers don't even have that. Makes it less funny. The funniest thing I think is when the screams scare the shit out of someone.