Tourettes

[leapoffaith]

All this talk of rants has made me feel ranty...

In second grade I was diagnosed with tourettes. It didn't really mean much at the time- my parents are just acceptant of new challenges like that. Blah blah I had an awkward school life after that yadda yadda it's really the same for anyone with a disorder. It's manifested itself in many different ways over the years but the one thing that's always been there is impulse control (I say pretty much anything that comes into my head if I get overexcited and forget to triple check my brain). But anyway then things like Tourettes guy and South Park came along and suddenly I had "that thing that makes you retarded and so you swear right?" Telling teachers about my issues and impulse control issues has become a chore as many of them don't believe me when i tell them on the first day of school after blurting something funny but inappropriate out in their class that it's because I was literally unable to think about what I was saying.

When I first went to my high school there were 2 other boys and 1 girl with tourettes. The boys were in my year and the girl was 2 years ahead of me. One of the boys was (is) a douche bag who my (ex) girlfriend cheated on me with (story for another time) who I never confronted about it because he's been otherwise good to me and I feel like I need to keep my legitimate tic-ers around me. The other guy is a coney island magician and a total badass and a close friend to me (so i won there). The girl isreallypretty and she was a tourettes mother figure to me, but we all came to a consensus that the accommodations for students with our various forms of tourettes is unacceptable, but still tricky to cope with because there's always going to be some asshole who decides he's going to pretend to have tourettes in order to swear loudly in math class.

If this seems like a strange couple of paragraphs it's probably because i got distracted and lost track of what I was thinking. I'm pretty sure there were a dozen other things i wanted to say but they're all gone because my thoughts move at a hundred miles a second.
But what I want to ask is what your opinion/knowledge of tourettes amounts to or if you have it because even all these years later i don't know all that much about my... affliction... and it would be nice to talk to someone in a relatively anonymous environment about the various issues I have with it.
Hell, even if you just clicked on the thread expecting some sort of funny video, feel free to contribute.

[Ducky]

I am not rightly an authority on Tourettes, but it has three different 'levels' from what I gather. The most common one is... I think muscle twitching. Then I think there's FUCKING voice twitching (again, this is warped by like a year of storage in my brain) and lastly there's what you described. Did I get that order right?

[Rimmy]

I don't really have tourettes, but I sometimes have that muscle twitching thing. I don't really know how you feel, since I've never met anyone diagnosed with tourettes, but I imagine it must be hard for you sometimes.

[leapoffaith]

TO be diagnosed with tourettes, a person had to have both vocal AND physical tics for over a year. The swearing form of tourettes is one of the rarest and is known as Coprolalia. I don't think it's actually broken up into super specific levels, but there is a definite difference between extremities of the tics. Sometimes it can be must more annoying and debilitating to cope with than other times.

[Paperback Writer]

This motherfucking thread is some deep fucking shit, man. Those fucking assholes making fun of people with Tourettes syndrome are bitching up all over this shit. Fuck, man. If I had a penny for everytime I swear, I'd be such a rich ass right now. Hear me, faggots?

The swearing kind is my favorite.

[Killing_Time]

I don't really know how tourettes works, but I would assume it would not really be anything noticeable on a forum since you can sit back and re-read a post and edit it before you publish it.

[Killervirus]

Tourette's fine, if you apologise and tell it to people they won't mind at all (if you're around the right people)

you should work on some funny tourettes related joke
"fuck" / *twitch*
"huh?"
"excuse me, I have tourettes"
"really?"
"yeah I guess I'm just [funny pun here]"
*haha, everybody laffs, tourettes just broke the ice for you*

[leapoffaith]

yeah- it's sort of a problem though- it tics off all the people around me