It's not me, it's my keyboard Tourette's!
reddit / irc

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[deleted] · 2014-02-07 10:26

first post, sorry. I just had to vent:
http://imgur.com/gallery/BFrmqt0

My fiancé has real, medical professional diagnosed Tourette's. He
doesn't curse, doesn't shout, is the gentlest creature on this good
Earth.

I've also been active on IRC since 1996, and for the past ten years in
communities with rules about being family friendly and respecting the
other participants. If I'd get an Euro everytime someone claims that
they should be allowed to curse or given a free pass for it because
they have Tourette's, I'd been able to take my fiancé for a nice
dinner.

I've done my homework over the years and oh boy does it grind my
gears. LISTEN UP KIDS: Tourette manifests mostly in movement tics,
often as verbal (repetition) tics, and only in about 10% of diagnosed
cases as swearing. There are some references to corpographia (writing
or drawing obscenities) in the literature, but I've not found any link
with it and Tourette's in the said literature.

TL;DR: You can't put the blame of your IRC/chat misbehaviour on your
selfdiagnosed Tourette. Stop it.