If you asked people on the street what Tourette syndrome is, I’d bet my house that most would say it consisted of swearing.
Maybe I am being pessimistic, and things have improved. But we still have work to do to change perceptions whilst understanding that some people do suffer with Coprolalia– tics involving inappropriate words or phrases.
How readers are experiencing tics:
Stats taken from the tic log page:
Below are dedicated articles to the types of tics that can be experienced, depending on how they occur. I am sure there are more, I will do my best to add them when I encounter them.
- Clonic – rapid, sudden movement
- Tonic – brief muscle tensing without movement
- Dystonic – sustained muscle contraction or abnormal postures
- Blocking tic – sudden interruption of speech or movement
- Mental tics – tics carried out in the mind
- Internal tics – tics carried out in the body
- Vocal/phonic – random sounds
- Vocal/phonic – random words and/or phrases
- Echolalia – repeating another person’s words
- Palilalia – repeating one’s own words
- Coprolalia – inappropriate or offensive words
- Copropraxia – inappropriate or offensive gestures
- Coprographia – Writing or drawing obscene and inappropriate things