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Who has Tourette's Syndrome? (pg. 2)
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| Basstard |
| Tim Howard (the Manchester United goalkeeper) has Tourettes. apparently he takes some sort of drug that keeps it under control tho. |
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| _Ocean_Drive_ |
What I don't understand about Tourette's is that how do you know what the swear words are. YOu don't just naturally accumulate them into your vocabluary.
If you'd learnt "please" and "thank you" instead of "f*ck sh*t", would you be randomly mouthing that off to customers? |
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| DOOMBOT |
| quote: | Originally posted by _Ocean_Drive_
What I don't understand about Tourette's is that how do you know what the swear words are. YOu don't just naturally accumulate them into your vocabluary.
If you'd learnt "please" and "thank you" instead of "f*ck sh*t", would you be randomly mouthing that off to customers? |
I was about to ask the same thing myself! :haha: |
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| TranceMuzik02 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DOOMBOT
I never knew why cursing was associated with tourettes. Why does your body uncontroleably shout out curses instead of other words? |
Not quite true. Cursing (Coprolalia) is actually uncommon in Tourette's, and only effects about 5%-15%. |
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| DOOMBOT |
| quote: | Originally posted by TranceMuzik02
Not quite true. Cursing (Coprolalia) is actually uncommon in Tourette's, and only effects about 5%-15%. |
My main question is, why? |
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| Aquarian |
| It's a psychological thing. I don't know if anyone gets this, but when I'm very stressed up, sometimes I get disturbing or violent images and ideas in my head, even though I don't want them there. I try to think of something else but I can't, and I keep getting focused on those thoughts. I think this is probably the same kind of thing that happends to people with tourrette's, only they can't control it, and it all comes out. |
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| david.michael |
I think I have a very mild form of Tourette's. Here's a post I made on another website regarding this...
Been doing a little self-research lately regarding an "issue" or set of "issues" that I have had since childhood. Quite honestly, I never even considered the thought of it possibly being worthy of medical diagnosis until now.
I have a set of habits that I have a very hard time breaking. Sometimes the habits change, but they are similar in nature. For example, I often exhibit facial "twitches", for lack of a better word. Examples: Wrinkling my forehead (eyebrows down, eyebrows up, then down again). Wiggling my nose (to the left, then to the right twice, then to the left), often followed by a "wrinkling" of the nose (up, down, up, down). Odd intentional breathing habits (short inward and outward breaths an equal number of times). Habitual severe lip biting (to the point of drawing blood and still continuing). Cracking my knuckles, toes, ankles, wrists several times an hour. Clenching of teeth (often harder to one side, then to the other, a number of times, but always an equal amount of times). A widening or narrowing of the eyes, again, sometimes, one side and then the other, but always equal. Scraping/poking certain spots of my fingers/thumbs with fingernails/hangnails, sometimes causing sores. Equally on each hand.
Notice all of the symmetry in the above symptoms. I cannot stand to exhibit any of the symptoms on "one side" without exhibiting them to the "other side" equally. I first noticed this behavior when I was probably in kindergarten or younger; when I was walking down the sidewalk, I had to alternate which foot stepped across the upcoming crack. It drove me nuts to do otherwise. I had to "equal things out" or it just didn't feel right. If I were to accidentally cross two or more cracks in a row with the same foot first, I had to follow suit with the other foot until everything was "evened out". I still exhibit this sometimes; I can overcome it but it is noticeable.
I have always been a very symmetrical person, and this definitely shows through in my habits.
Some of these symptoms are indicative of Tourette's Syndrome. Take this example from one person diagnosed with TS:
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always had certain 'habits' my entire life, but thinking they were nervous habits or something trivial, my family and I didn't pursue them. As a boy I would sometimes clear my throat often or feel that if I touched something with my right hand, I would have to touch it with my left in order to "make it even."
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I have exhibited this same behavior almost all of my life. Most of my "habits" or "twitches" or what-have-you are fairly controllable; it is not something that I cannot "physically" stop. But I have an irresistable urge to do them and, as such, I go through with it. It is a similar situation as to when you have a whole bag of your favorite candy in front of you, and you've already eaten 3/4 of it and you are starting to feel just slightly sick, and you know you really shouldn't continue eating it, but you can't help yourself and you just do it anyway, regardless of consequence. Sometimes, due to my teeth clenching or forehead wrinkling, etc. I'll give myself a headache, but I cannot help but continue doing it, so it only worsens the headache.
I am actually starting to wonder if I have a mild case of Tourette's. (And no, that doesn't mean I'm going to randomly start spewing cuss-words uncontrollably like Gillbot does when he's changing plugs on an LT1.)
Thoughts, insights? |
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| shades_of_gray |
not a nice thing to have
i was sat outside tescos one day and i was just texting on my phone....wehn suddenly i noticed a man walking almost marching straight towards me with a mean look in his eyes....i automatically thought he was going to come up and smack me one, so i stood up ready to defend myself....he stopped suddenly and shouted "PIGS HAVE PIGLETS, COWS HAVE CALFS AND DOGS HAVE PUPPIES"!!!! stuck his tongue out and started swearing at passers by!! :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by shades_of_gray
not a nice thing to have
i was sat outside tescos one day and i was just texting on my phone....wehn suddenly i noticed a man walking almost marching straight towards me with a mean look in his eyes....i automatically thought he was going to come up and smack me one, so i stood up ready to defend myself....he stopped suddenly and shouted "PIGS HAVE PIGLETS, COWS HAVE CALFS AND DOGS HAVE PUPPIES"!!!! stuck his tongue out and started swearing at passers by!! :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: |
:haha: :wtf: |
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| TranceMuzik02 |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
I think I have a very mild form of Tourette's. |
Yeah, I think I have too. Once you become an adult you start to wonder why you are still having these vocal and motor tics. When you are younger, you get away with it, without anyone making a fuss that it's out of the ordinary. |
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| DOOMBOT |
| quote: | Originally posted by shades_of_gray
not a nice thing to have
i was sat outside tescos one day and i was just texting on my phone....wehn suddenly i noticed a man walking almost marching straight towards me with a mean look in his eyes....i automatically thought he was going to come up and smack me one, so i stood up ready to defend myself....he stopped suddenly and shouted "PIGS HAVE PIGLETS, COWS HAVE CALFS AND DOGS HAVE PUPPIES"!!!! stuck his tongue out and started swearing at passers by!! :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: |
Drugs and Tourettes are not the same. |
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| TranceMuzik02 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DOOMBOT
My main question is, why? |
That's the fact, and I don't know the science behind it. |
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