Tourettes Syndrome

[David Kaczorowski]

I think I got it. My wife is becoming concerned and already doesn't allow the kids in the house while I'm practicing. I never knew it's possible to have symptoms only while practicing the bass.

[standupright]

lol

[standupright]

do de do do do doooooo da de dooooooo F***!!!

do de do do do doooooo da de daaaaaaa F*** G**DA****!!!

do de do do do doooooo da de dooooooo G** F******DA****!!!

do de do do do doooooo da de dooooooo M*****F*****!!!

[Michael Glynn]

My friend use to claim to have Tourettes. I had to tell him there was a difference between having Tourettes and just being a foul mouthed donkeydivot.

[Menacewarf]

I went to school with a kid who had it and although he swore more than anyeone he claimed it wasn't part of the condition. The way he was affected was through weird neck and facial tweaking and tension.

[salcott]

I had a friend in high school with mild Tourette's; he blinked a lot, but it was a very intense kind of blinking. I've known others who had it bad. It's for real even in its mildest form. Read Oliver Sacks and check out "Twitch and Shout", a documentary about Tourette's; it's also the title of a book by the film's subject, Lowell Handler.

[mcnaire2004]

Haha, only when playing the bass, that is funny.

[bribass]

My younger brother had it as a young kid. Thank goodness when he hit puberty, when a lot of cases get worse his got better and later dissapeared altogether.

The cursing thing IS part of the condition.

Believe me it's NOT funny at all! These people suffer a lot.

[Greg Clinkingbeard]

There was a Hallmark movie on recently about a young man in Atlanta with a severe case pursuing his dream to become a teacher. He attained his dream and changed the way many viewing the movie saw the illness. No, it isn't funny at all.

[Bobby King]

I'm sure it's not a funny thing for those who have it.

There was a good novel by Jonathan Letham called "Motherless Brooklyn" about a detective with Tourette's Syndrome. I always think of that book when the subject comes up.

[David Kaczorowski]

Wow, what a bunch of serious bass players.

[standupright]

Originally Posted by David Kaczorowski

Wow, what a bunch of serious bass players.

a lot of people here take themselves and everything else too seriously.

i found it hilarious.

[drurb]

Originally Posted by standupright

a lot of people here take themselves and everything else too seriously.

i found it hilarious.

I can laugh at just about anything-- I have some wide boundaries when it comes to humor. That said, I found your post to be over the edge in terms of insensitivity and lack of understanding. It was crude and sophomoric. As it turns out, coprolalia (uncontrolled swearing) occurs in a minority of Tourette's cases. I find little humor in the severe suffering of those who have a dopamine imbalance.

[standupright]

Originally Posted by drurb

I can laugh at just about anything-- I have some wide boundaries when it comes to humor. That said, I found your post to be over the edge in terms of insensitivity and lack of understanding. It was crude and sophomoric. As it turns out, coprolalia (uncontrolled swearing) occurs in a minority of Tourette's cases. I find little humor in the severe suffering of those who have a dopamine imbalance.

well alright. that's how you feel.

i found it to be hilarious.

[brianbj46]

This thread is extremely childish and insensitive. Especially for a 37-year-old.

I don't think you'd be making these jokes if you personally knew someone who had this disease.
I went to gradeschool with a guy that had it, and when we were in middleschool, he let out a bunch of explicatives when we had a tornado drill, and ALL the students were laughing their asses off at his expense.
Save those kind of jokes for when you're hanging out with your buddies.
NOT on a public internet forum.

[salcott]

I have a very dark and inclusive sense of humor, but at the same time I'm one of those "serious" people who don't find other people's afflictions funny. Is a blind person walking into a lamppost or a deaf person getting hit by a car he didn't hear coming amusing? How about my neighbor with MS? Should I laugh at her while she struggles to get herself and her walker up the steps to our building? One of the people interviewed in "Twitch and Shout" has a tic that makes her shout the "N" word when she sees a black person. How'd you like to have that little problem? I guess I can only hope that if any of us get a chronic illness, it's a funny one.

[MR PC]

The early stages of Tourettes must be terrifying, as the early effects of the disease are recognized by the "victim".

Is the OP really joking?

[bribass]

drub, Steve and Brianbj46, thank you for restoring sense and dignity to the Bass Humor Forum.

Some philosophers say you can't really "know" something until you experience it for yourself.

I would like to believe that standupright wouldn't feel it was so hilarious if he had seen the suffering of a little boy coming home from school everyday and bitterly crying his eyes out after enduring the endless shaming by classmates and even teachers. People didn't know much about this rare and misunderstood condition back in the late 70's. Comments to my parents from teachers, even counselors and principals ranged from "don't let him get away with it, he's doing this on purpose", "he must be posessed", to "he's deeply disturbed", "he's derranged in some strange way".

Funny stuff like that. Good times.

Thankfully we found the one doctor at the time that specialized in the condition and we were all educated.

Today my brother is a school psychologist. He did his Phd. dissertation on Tourette's Syndrome in young students.

[standupright]

Originally Posted by bribass

drub, Steve and Brianbj46, thank you for restoring sense and dignity to the Bass Humor Forum.

Some philosophers say you can't really "know" something until you experience it for yourself.

I would like to believe that standupright wouldn't feel it was so hilarious if he had seen the suffering of a little boy coming home from school everyday and bitterly crying his eyes out after enduring the endless shaming by classmates and even teachers. People didn't know much about this rare and misunderstood condition back in the late 70's. Comments to my parents from teachers, even counselors and principals ranged from "don't let him get away with it, he's doing this on purpose", "he must be posessed", to "he's deeply disturbed", "he's derranged in some strange way".

Funny stuff like that. Good times.

Thankfully we found the one doctor at the time that specialized in the condition and we were all educated.

Today my brother is a school psychologist. He did his Phd. dissertation on Tourette's Syndrome in young students.

first of all allow me to clarify a few things.

i do not laugh at those with disabilities.

i do try to find humor in everything even in what seems to be inappropriate.

my comments in this thread have nothing to do with people that have dissabilities, and everything the op posted because i got the inferrance.

i donate a very large portion of my time AND money to various charities as well regularly helping those in need. for example my elderly neighbor (rest his soul) that i cared for, for 3 years until his death. getting up early and making him breakfast and taking it to him, coming home from work for lunch, to make him food and taking it to him, and then making dinner and taking it to him. taking him to the grocer and to the bank.....and finally bathing him daily. why? because he had dementia and alzheimers. no family, no one else to help him. and because i care. this happened over the span of three years until the APS came in and removed him from his home, put him in a group home, where he promplty died 2 months later. all the while going to court for him and trying to make sure that he got the care he deserved.

i have donated this year in excess of 10k of my hard earned money from everything to children with dissabilities, animals, human rights abroad, food and farm charities in other countries, and stood in a soup kitchen on thanksgiving instead of having a large party and gorging myself on turkey, just to name a few.

my house is not made of glass....is yours?

judge away.....my conscience is clear.

[MR PC]

Clear. Denial is terrifying.