Interesting phenomenon, that has a lot to do with people just being sympathetic to someone who has a genuine medical problem. Tourette's Syndrome. My friend in grade school JG had a terrible case of it. And one of my teachers, Sister F., used to blame him for it. And demand he stop. Even though she must've seen he couldn't. I guess JG's mother didn't know at first it was Tourette's. But to her credit, she knew right away that it wasn't by choice. And she let Sister F. know she didn't like the way she was treating her son. One day in class, Sister F. went to her desk, and basically we all saw. She turned on a tape recorder. Because she wanted to record JG making those strange noises he did, for some reason. Later on, JG's mother was telling my mother, Sister F. told her. I've got it! Meaning she finally got proof. She got evidence. Of what? Of the fact he had a medical problem? JG's mother asked her what exactly she was going to do with that tape. I guess she held onto it for some reason. I guess anxiety makes the problem worse too. More on that below. I had a girl in HS with the problem. She was in my band class. LM was her name. She had it bad too. She kept throwing her very expensive flute at the music stand. She was breaking it, denting it and breaking the valves. But she couldn't afford to keep repairing it. The music teacher Miss P. was bothered by her. She once asked her to deliver a note. And then I overheard her talk about LM. She said it was disturbing to her, some of the things she did. The noises LM made were kind of loud too. And like I said, since it was brought on by anxiety, when people didn't understand, that seemed to make it only worse. They covered this topic on an episode of St. Elsewhere, which was on NBC from 1982-8. It was about fictional hospital in Boston, MA. In one episode, they bring up an ironic problem some people with Tourette's Syndrome have, or used to have (it's treatable with older neuroleptic drugs). One female patient keeps screaming a racist word. And it's making the African American patients and doctors at the St. Elsewhere hospital very angry, even though she claims she can't help it. Finally Luther Hawkins (played by African American actor Eric Laneuville), who is studying to be a doctor at St. Elsewhere, looks into her condition. He goes to her room and tells her she obviously has Tourette's Syndrome. She's very relieved and thanks him. And then she accidentally starts saying that racist word again, and he leaves her room in disgust. My friend JG had that problem once. He was in class, and he said something inappropriate about race. But he didn't mean it and didn't intend to. It was the Tourette's Syndrome again. The teacher was out of the room. And one African American boy said, hey! Did you hear what he said. A few tense moments followed in the class. But another African American boy interrupted saying, leave him alone. He obviously has a problem. I was also watching on TV once. Some man with Tourette's Syndrome was always afraid he'd use a racist word whenever he was near African Americans in public. So to deal with the anxiety, he kept repeating the phrase "Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters". I was telling a couple of my doctors, when I thought my mouth was saying things I wasn't aware of, I would use that technique. The word that sounds like the forbidden word is in the middle, with basically other words insulating it around it. So you bring yourself up to the point of anxiety by saying a word that sounds like the forbidden word. And then bring yourself down again. (I don't know though. All my life people have been telling me my mouth never said anything I wasn't aware of. And I am beginning to find out there often were other explanations for why that seemed to happen.) The issue of when people with Tourette's Syndrome say inappropriate things, especially racial things, is complicated. Because it's really not their fault or what they actually said. And as I said, the condition is brought on by anxiety. Sometimes if people around them were just more understanding, that would often make it stop.
Yes your right but the thing today is so many DO NOT CARE ABOUT OTHERS and are often quite mean to them......
