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Fiendish Thingy

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5. How do you know Cheung has Tourette's?
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 10:00 AM
Thursday

And if he did, why would you mock him for it?

Tourette’s is stereotypically known as the disorder that causes someone to involuntarily swear or say inappropriate things. Most recently a presenter at the BAFTA awards who has Tourette’s was paired with another presenter who is black, and the man with Tourette’s shouted out the “N” word on live television.

In my experience (I’m a retired therapist) that presentation is the least common- although some form of vocal tic is required for the diagnosis, it is much more common for it to take the form of non-verbal vocalizations such as grunts, whoops, shrieks, etc. combined with motor tics such as blinking, jerking, grimacing etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome

Cheung is a contemptible lackey who deserves our scorn, but not at the expense of stigmatizing mental health and neurological disorders that many others struggle with. If someone had cerebral palsy, we wouldn’t mock him as a “spaz”, and if someone had schizophrenia, we wouldn’t mock them as a “psycho”, would we?

Rant/lecture over.

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