Spyke
lemmy.blahaj.zone

I've met a couple of people with tourettes, but none of them swore, just siezed up or did a loud scream. How usual is it for people with tourettes to swear instead of the non-verbal kind?

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entwine413reply
lemm.ee

I'm pretty sure the T-shirt is an offensive stereotype.

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Meeechreply
lemmy.world

I have tourettes and laughed at the shirt. Not everything requires pearl clutching. It's a stereotype that was made popular from South Park and then again in Deuce Bigalow. I also laughed at both of those examples when I watched them.

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South Park actually did a great job showing that tourettes isn't just shouting curse words.

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Meeechreply
lemmy.world

How usual is the swearing type of tourettes? Fairly rare. Most of us just squeek, grunt, and have minor muscle spasms.

Without cannabis, I turn into a squeaky mother fucker lol

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Thank you, I kinda expected that. However, I understand why the swearing variant is much more visible in our society.

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Makes me wonder about a guy I knew about a decade ago who would dab like its a nervous tick. Learned from a friend who went on a date with him that he did so even more often after a few drinks

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Kusimulkkureply
lemm.ee

Coprolalia is an occasional characteristic of tic disorders, in particular Tourette syndrome, although it is not required for a diagnosis of Tourette's and only about 10% of Tourette's patients exhibit coprolalia.

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sh.itjust.works

Ikr? I love little things like that, where you now know whatever person coined the term knew exactly what they were doing

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Okokimupreply
lemmy.world

The person you responded to knew exactly what they were dooing.

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cynarreply
lemmy.world

Apparently a lot of people with tourettes can hold it in, to some extent. It's like holding in a sneeze, however. The longer you hold it, the worse the itch becomes. Eventually it's coming out, and generally worse the longer it was constrained for.

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I've met several people with tourettes and when I asked them at the start the ticks wasn't swearing. But after they had a dream of seeing a wall of dicks or a dick-themed dream in general, the swearing started. I've asked several people, but the sample size is still countable by fingers.

I just think that's a weird coincidence.

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