Shopping... with a teen that has tourettes :o)

[WolverineSyr]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Panorama[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by XXX[/i]
<br>That's the thing. How come there isn't a tourettes where someone says good things? Why does it always have to be bad words?[}:)][/quote]
Yes, I was thinking the same thing... what if she spewed out words like "banana" or "rope" or "acorn." We aren't born knowing innapropriate words, so why do people with Tourettes shout out those choice words?

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That's a great question, but unfortunatly there aren't a lot of answers. The swearing type of Tourette Syndrome is called coprolalia. Some people think it has to do with the "forbidden" nature of swearing or using racial words. Some how Tourette's would trigger a signal in the brain to "unrepress" those words through a vocal tic. People with coprolalia rarely realize that they've just sworn. Coprolalia is only one type of vocal tic though.

We often think this behavior defines tourettes (I always did...) but I've read in several places that only 5-20% of patients have this type of tourettes. The disease can manifest itself in saying regular phrases or words, repeating something you read hours before, facial or physical tics and no vocal tics, repeating tasks or actions (like kicking or swatting at something,) etc...

It must suck. I once had a cab driver who had coprolalia - the kind that made him shout out racial slurs. (I'm not kidding!) Imagine the fun of driving in downtown boston with a cabbie screaming out every racist name you can think of, with the windows down!

[Bitter Almonds]

[quote][i]Originally posted by edisonoside[/i]
<br>She sounds like the end of the "SEGA" commercial.
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HAhahAH[:D] She does!

[SwampThing]

[quote]That's a great question, but unfortunatly there aren't a lot of answers. The swearing type of Tourette Syndrome is called coprolalia....[/quote] I went to college with a student that had this disorder. I was in several of his classes. He would skip the first class of each semester so the teacher could spend 5 minutes or so with the classs discussing his condition. Basically we were told to ignore the verbal outbursts, this was very difficult for he tended to shout. During the coarse of a 45 minute class he would have at least 10-15 outbursts.

His favorite words were "mother-f*cker", "c*nt" and "bitch" and the n-word.