Went to the hotel fitness center, as it's raining outside. Doug is already there on some stair-type machine. One soap opera character on the TV says, "you killed him, you smothered him with donuts!"
Another character, another scene, she is sitting in a room with a man and an elderly woman and the character wonders if she's dead. The mans says, "No, you're alive," and the woman hands her a plate of donuts.
A commercial comes on. A couple are on a date and the woman's voiceover says what a wonderful guy her friend set her up with: "He's so cute, and his IQ is higher than my bank balance... but she didn't tell me he has... tourette's syndrome." What? Did I hear this right? Is the guy about to start spouting obscenities? Is this a SNL skit? (To be fair, tourette's comes in many flavors and I suspect the sudden blurting of obscenities is only a stereotype.) The ad is for: www.tourette.ca.
Types of tics:
Simple:
Motor - Eye blinking, head jerking, shoulder shrugging and facial grimacing;
Vocal - Throat clearing, yelping and other noises, sniffing and tongue clicking.Complex:
Motor - Jumping, touching other people or things, smelling, twirling about and, although very rare, self-injurious actions, including hitting or biting oneself;
Vocal - Uttering ordinary words or phrases out of context, echolalia (repeating a sound, word or phrase just heard) and, in rare cases, coprolalia (vocalizing socially unacceptable words). The range of tics or tic-like symptoms that can be seen in TS is enormous. The complexity of some symptoms often confuses family members, friends, teachers, and employers who may find it hard to believe that the actions or vocal utterances are involuntary.
The local French language alt weekly compares my CD to Sgt Pepper. Is that good?
