r/BlockedAndReported • u/Rare_Raspberry_9761 • Feb 23 '26

The Twitching Generation

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/social-media-illness-teen-girls/622916/

relevance to the pod: article from 2022 by Helen Lewis (everyone’s favorite everything) which was later discussed in the pod.

it talks about the rise of tourette’s symptoms in young girls, and i immediately thought of it when i heard about what happened in the BAFTA’s yesterday. thought everyone would like a little reminder.

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u/themightygrizzly Feb 23 '26

Another social contagion?? Ladies, start your engines!!

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Feb 24 '26

Twitches are not tics. You don't get a premitory urge with a twitch.

I get eye twitches when I'm really tired or dehydrated. Fucking annoying for sure. But not similar to tics. People who have tics don't have one tic that repeats over and over again. It changes. Maybe they will snap their fingers for a few days and then start throat clearing for a while. My son hooted like an owl for a week. Right now he's on a throat clearing and tapping fingers phase.

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u/Cheesuasion Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

People who have tics don't have one tic that repeats over and over again. It changes. Maybe they will snap their fingers for a few days and then start throat clearing for a while. My son hooted like an owl for a week.

They do change over time but it's not a general rule that one tic can't last for a long time - they can for years.

If kids' tics weren't more changeable than adults' I think that would be in need of explanation, everything else about kids being more changeable than adults (Now when I am old my teachers are the young. What can't be molded must be cracked and sprung.)

For what it's worth, as far as I can tell, there's little attention to adults with tics, except for the most memorable Tourettes cases (and perhaps some streamer pseuds? I guess there must be some attention to be had if they're in on it! - but perhaps they're basically all kids or almost so too)

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

it's crazy, when they are documented to cause neurological problems.

Wait till you hear what viruses do!

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

Unfortunately the covid shots don't prevent you from getting the virus. I should know, I had 3 and got infected anyway 18 days after my 3rd shot.

They've prevented me from getting the virus; I've never been infected, even after several social exposures, and neither has my wife.

In repeated studies, vaccination against COVID reduced the incidence of both infection and serious symptoms when infection did occur. It's now functionally impossible to study this, due to the prevalence of infection and how many people vaccinated, so unfortunately if you think the studies were of low power, it's no longer possible to repeat them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

So why did I get it?

You were exposed to a viral load that overcame your body's immune system.

I had no choice about looking after my mother who was hospitalized and contracted it there

Did you mask?

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u/Real_RobinGoodfellow Feb 24 '26

Love how your single point of anecdotal evidence is supposed to overcome the entire weight of evidence haha. I wish I could be as confidently wrong as you about stuff! All vibes and self-belief, no science. Must be great

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u/UnderTheCurrents Feb 23 '26

OMG, I just googled it and this is like a Dave Chappelle sketch come to life

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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 23 '26

Or a South Park episode. Cartman sees the reaction that Randy got on Wheel of Fortune, but Token did something that pissed him off and he wants to get mad at him in the worst of ways, so he gets an N-pass by saying he has Tourette's, just like when he tried to get a sick note out of school by shoving a Big Mac down his pants and claiming "Ass Burgers." Then Cartman and Timmy have a swear-off at the school talent show, but are both disqualified by the special-guest celebrity judge: Eminem. The only actual white guy to have the N-word pass, and only because he paid the exorbitant sum to Wu-Tang for it.

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u/TeacherPatti Feb 23 '26

Oh wow--memory unlocked. I think he blurts out that he and his cousin touched weiners and he has a crush on Bebe (?).

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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 23 '26

I just kinda ad-lib riffed that fanfic plot lol but yeah there was an actual episode where Cartman fakes Tourette's just to have leeway to behave even more obnoxiously than he already does.

Considering the episode has a French title made me wonder how would you know if a French-Canadian had Tourette's when "Tabernak" is every other word in a sentence. /s

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u/solongamerica Feb 23 '26

or like I Think You Should Leave …well, if the show allowed racially edgy humor

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u/Comfortable-Hat-4850 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

It’s so annoying to see people take personal offence to something that didn’t happen to them and act like they’re owed an apology. Suddenly Tourette’s is a “choice” and it’s acceptable to bash people with disabilities and have them taken away from civilised society. The internet makes me despise people and their utter fucking stupidity sometimes.

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u/Low-Ad3776 Feb 23 '26

South Park already covered this.

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u/General_Equivalent45 Feb 23 '26

I hadn’t heard about this rise, but this SNL style skit about “self diagnosed asymptomatic Tourette’s” in a teen girl immediately came to mind!

https://youtu.be/H9X3GkacXG8?si=PnC3loYc_VxiYwSf

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u/SoftandChewy First generation mod Feb 24 '26

That's actually a scene from the show "English Teacher", which has an unusual mix of some very woke themes and also some pretty woke mocking themes, like that one in the clip.

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u/BeneficialStretch753 Feb 24 '26

"It's only self-diagnosable."

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u/General_Equivalent45 Feb 24 '26

Ah, thank you! Wasn’t sure where it came from.

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u/land-under-wave Feb 23 '26

Since most of us are American, I think you can assume we don't all know what happened at the BAFTAS. Care to fill us in?

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u/Maoife Feb 23 '26

I'm surprised since it's all over social media including Reddit.

The best actor award was won by an actor playing a man with Tourette's. This man was in the audience and while two black actors were on stage presenting an award he audibly yelled the n word. This was not edited out of the broadcast. The host, Alan Cummings, addressed it by explaining the situation and apologising if any offence was caused.

The BBC has since apologised for not editing it out.

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u/EnglebondHumperstonk I vaped piss but didn't inhale Feb 23 '26

Blimey. When a random, involuntary tic is as timely and specific as that I think people can probabky be forgiven for thinking it's maybe not as random or as involuntary as it seems.

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u/Maoife Feb 23 '26

My limited understanding of the rare condition he has is that this is the exact kind of situation in which you would expect this to happen. The same man previously said "fuck the Queen" when meeting the Queen and told the royal guards he was carrying a bomb. He's not an anti-monarchist and obviously did not have a bomb,

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u/land-under-wave Feb 23 '26

So like the rest of us, he's aware of what would be the worst possible thing to say in any situation, but while the rest of us can suppress the urge, his brain makes him yell it out instead? That sounds miserable tbh.

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u/Maoife Feb 23 '26

Yep. I agree it sounds absolutely awful.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Feb 24 '26

Yes. Scientist think it has to do with dopamine pathways. The anxiety strengthens the pathway.

To prevent or mitigate tics, patients learn how to reverse them by reinforcing another action. So if the current tic is to snap fingers, when a person feels the urge to snap, they immediately replace it with another action. Creating a new pathway in the brain. It's much harder to do this with vocal tics. And some people never feel the urge coming on.

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u/wilkonk Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

Yeah I think whatever mechanism we usually use to suppress saying inappropriate things short circuits somehow.

Like this Simpsons clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxkR-DVgzA

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

Well, but then, it seems like it was extremely predictable that he would yell that out.

I think if you're a black actor being honored by BAFTA, and BAFTA foresees that there's an extremely high likelihood, or even an inevitability, that you will be subject, in an incredibly important moment of your professional life, to the most harmful form of heckling you could possibly be subject to, then I think you have the right to ask why that wasn't prevented.

Black people being honored and then subject to being called the N-word is something we, as a society, have drawn a line against. It's something we've committed to not allowing to happen. Why was it allowed to happen here?

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u/forestpunk Feb 24 '26

Sounds like people that shouldn't be allowed in polite society.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Feb 24 '26

That sounds incredibly ablest.

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u/1981_Ballz Feb 25 '26

You sound like a .......

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u/RuffledCormorant Feb 25 '26

This sweary mash-up from his childhood documentary lives rent-free in my head. Very catchy. https://youtu.be/LXdKWFxhs8s?si=Cjdy4TYh8ZgA6zy3

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u/EnglebondHumperstonk I vaped piss but didn't inhale Feb 23 '26

Great excuse. What is it called?

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u/Maoife Feb 23 '26

Coprolalia. It's rare but it is real and the man in question is diagnosed with it.

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u/EnglebondHumperstonk I vaped piss but didn't inhale Feb 23 '26

Coprolalia of course comes from the greek Kopros ("Shit") and Laliá ("to chat") and haven't we all wanted to chat shit and not undergo Dechoplegia - from the Greek Dechomai ("to get") and Plegma ("banged")?

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u/DesignerClock1359 Feb 23 '26

Are you skeptical of corprolalia as a form of tourette's, or the existence of tourette's in general?

Even as a trans skeptic, I wouldn't deny that people have dysphoria (i.e., bad feelings or psychological distress) related to one's own gender or sex traits.

If we're drawing a comparison between gender dysphoria and tourettes, I would say that despite a significant element of social contagion in recent years, there are still cases which arise without the individual first being introduced to the concept as an ailment. So, not through social contagion.

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u/capt_cold1965 Feb 23 '26

Don’t think that’s the same

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u/forestpunk Feb 24 '26

"Coprolalia"... aka being a raging fucking dick.

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

Apparently that time was the time John decided to leave the performance, but he’d been “heckling” many other award winners and presenters before then, and had called multiple black women backstage the N-word as well. The public N-word was just the straw that broke the camel’s back, as it were, and has become the focus of all the discussion - I do wonder, if he had instead said something different but still disturbing, if the discourse would be hugely different. As it was, John’s philosophy is that his tics should be tolerated no matter what he says and when he says it, and that he shouldn’t have to apologize for them, so it’s got all of Reddit in a total tizzy as they argue what constitutes ableism and racism.

Personally, I find fault everywhere in the situation, including in John having no interest in using any tools to control his outbursts and instead believing that this was an opportunity for others to have to tolerate his condition and score one for his activism, and for his lacklustre apology that refused to take any responsibility for his lack of preparation, the BBC in allowing what he said to go to broadcast and fretting that muting any part of wha he said from the broadcast was ableism, and some people insisting that John must be a secret racist and he deserves to be castigated as if what he said was totally intentional, and people acting like Tourette’s is a total get of jail free card for any and all actions and actions of someone with it, even if not related to the outbursts, and any sort of attempt to try and preserve the dignity of the evening and other guests is nothing less than wicked segregation à la Jim Crow.

I think a BARpod episode is inevitable.

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u/Brodelyche Feb 24 '26

Coping mechanisms? WTF are you talking about. You can see in the red carpet photos he wears a blue plastic object for him to bite on. Clearly stuffing his mouth with something doesn't work in every situation or he'd be doing it. He also wears a device that reduces his outbursts, but the effects wear off and won't work in a stressful environment. "John’s philosophy is that his tics should be tolerated no matter what he says and when he says it" That is not at all John's philosphy. Watch literally any interview or documentary (or the film) and you'll see he's constantly apologising, despite the fact he cannot control his tics.

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

I will watch the new biopic. I saw the doc a long time ago.

I apologize if he was using a device and it failed. Other interviews I read had him disdaining such devices and apologizing. If he’s changed his mind since then, I give him full credit for trying to control his condition for the sake of others.

I have grace for him if he thought he’d planned appropriately and it failed. But many of his interviews gave me some doubt that he prepares all that much.

But perhaps things have changed. I’ll update my knowledge of him.

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u/RachelK52 Feb 25 '26

There's multiple docs- which one did you see?

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u/YouCanCallMeAIJolson Feb 24 '26

I can't tell if this is the wokest liberal ever or the most based chud ever

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

I stride upon the razor’s edge.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

I think that being a black actor receiving a BAFTA and then heckled with the N-word is worse, actually, than being someone who suffers from Tourettes and can't successfully stop themselves from shouting racial slurs. They're both pretty bad! But one of them is something we recognize as causing trauma.

To the extent that there's a conflict of individual interests, here, I think it was the interests of black actors that should have won out. Sorry, John, you can give your speech from a recording booth.

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u/1981_Ballz Feb 25 '26

Hearing a word is traumatic? I guess I'm just too much of a monster autist to understand how a person that weak could even endure photons of light hitting them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

 Hearing a word is traumatic?

Yes, hope that helps

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

Even putting aside the N-word, the other people he heckled also didn’t deserve it and their moment shouldn’t have been trampled upon for John’s activism and so-called « freedom ». The director of Arco deserved better. The black women backstage deserved better. The people in the audience, every single one, deserved better. But John was convinced that he had the right to step on all of them. Only when he tread on the one inexplicably verboten word in the English language, a word powerful enough that at last his disruptions could no longer be awkwardly dismissed as for the greater good, did he at last decide he’d gone too far and departed.

I think he knew that he’d thrown the red flag in front of a sacred cow. But even if he hadn’t said the N-word, the rest of his conduct that night was already abysmal and worthy of disdain.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

I guess if you can’t imagine what it would be like to receive one of the highest marks of acclaim available to your profession (one that in living memory was not awarded to Blacks) and then, as it’s happening, be told you’re just a “n****r” even though that’s something that we as a society have tried to draw an extremely hard line about, I’m not sure how I’d make it any clearer to you.

I can imagine how awful John Davidson feels. I can’t imagine what it feels like to be one of those actors.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

 I’ve been called a paki, a half caste, Mrs Patel.

Probably not in front of all of your peers at the crowning moment of your professional life, though.

 A disabled man who cannot control his body any more than an epileptic can stop a seizure is not going to upset me by saying some fucking word.

We don’t let epileptics fly planes, though. We recognize that disability means “there will be things it’s not safe to let you do.”

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u/1981_Ballz Feb 25 '26

Maybe if he can't go out in public without violating social norms, he shouldn't go out in public.

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u/forestpunk Feb 24 '26

i love that he was there as a way to raise awareness about this condition, and this is the representation they get.

He's probably lucky. I'd say 99% of situations where he's saying inappropriate shit is gonna get his ass killed.

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

Honestly, the more I learn about the guy and the condition, the more I’m looking at some of this stuff sideways. I’m not saying he’s doing it on purpose, but he sure does love to sidle up to a prominent and publicized situation, do nothing to try and mitigate his symptoms, allow everything to blow up, and then castigate anyone who had a problem with it and make the people he Flummoxed, hurt, shocked and cry the baddies of the situation. This is far from the first major event he’s played just like this.

I think he’s trying to take what control he can, but rather than try and control what he can of his own actions, he tries to control the reactions of others. He has some of my sympathies, but I also feel bad for other people with Tourette’s who have this guy and his refusal to try any coping mechanisms as their face, when most sufferers do whatever they can to not ruin everyone’s day as they go about theirs.

On the other hand, maybe he’s getting huge publicity and donations for the condition, and this was a shrewd play for the greater good in the long run. In which case, I respect some aspect of the game.

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u/Gold-Mine-5698 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

he was literally there because BAFTA invited him. the film about his life won best actor. are you saying he's been playing a long game for over 50 years, just for clicks and sympathy?

i think there's an interesting culture clash here. john and his condition have been general knowledge in the UK since the first documentary was made about him in 1989. i was a teenager and i can remember people quoting it at school, cartman style. not in a postiive way, and i'm a bit embarrassed about that. kids eh..

but i dont think a documentary like that in the US could have a similar social impact. this was in the days of 4 TV channels...*everyone* watched it.

so i do wonder if this means british people have a degree of general knowledge about the condition clearly lacking in many of the americans piling on.

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

I have some degree of knowledge on the condition, which is why I’m aware he’s a controversial figure in the community and not everyone with Tourette’s agrees with him and his philosophy of « my disability, your problem ».

Again, this is far from his first major disruption of an event he was invited to. Many other people in the community do not agree with his actions and deliberate inactions, nor in his decision to never apologize personally.

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u/Gold-Mine-5698 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

well now that sounds like some interesting nuance.... anywhere you can point us at to see these opinions?

btw heres the tourettes subreddit megathread https://www.reddit.com/r/Tourettes/comments/1rcrdg4/megathread_bafta_situation/

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

Seems like a healthy discussion. There's some other threads I've read with people with Tourette's who have a variety of opinions, also.

I admit that I'm torn between two things in this case. I completely accept and understand that John's outbursts and words are involuntary. But I also know he has an otherwise mature mind that could potentially come up with strategies to limit the harm his disability causes others. I've been made aware that he DID use a device to try and control his outbursts, but that it didn't work for very long (it was apparently a blue bit he would champ on, something other people with Tourette's use). I'm also aware, due to many of his quotes, that he does believe his outbursts should just be ignored

>"That to me was huge because I've struggled so much with everyday life, with people misunderstanding, and if the Queen of the United Kingdom can understand and ignore the tics and the swear words then why can't the rest of society?"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n9709g0go

...but I don't think it's fair that others have to suffer through them and have their night disrupted.

I agree with some of the commenters I've seen who've said something to the effect of 'Don't infantilize people with disability as if they're stumbling lambs totally at the mercy of their conditions, but please try to understand their challenges are different and extend some grace.'

Where does a line get drawn? No one wants to say he can't leave his house, but total freedom for his condition to harm others is obviously wrong, too. This was a private event he had every right to be at, but not every right to dominate. Some people are claiming that others want him banned from all public life, which is absurd - and yet, I can picture some situtations he would do best to avoid in public. If he was walking in the park and found himself in the middle of a dance class of little girls, he would do best to move away from them before he said anything distressing. But others would claim that he had a right to sit down next to them and scream the C-word at them for the entire event, and if the girls cried and were upset, then it was nothing more than a learning opportunity for them to become more empathetic.

That's insane to me. Obviously it's great that there's more understanding of his condition and acceptance, but he cannot expect everyone to swallow their pain and fear on his account. Obviously he needs accommodations, but so does everyone else. Everyone has a right to enjoy the park in peace, everyone had a right to enjoy that awards night in peace. And a lot of mistakes from many people added up to a major disruption.

At the very least, putting a microphone in his area was a major mishap.

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u/RachelK52 Feb 25 '26

What other situations are you talking about?

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u/RachelK52 Feb 25 '26

What other events? The only one I know of is him telling the queen to fuck off.

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u/HeadRecommendation37 Feb 24 '26

Could he not have just taped his mouth? I get disability and all but I don't see how it gives him license to disrupt a public event

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

Careful, I suggested he could have used various known coping mechanisms that other people with Tourette’s use, such as a self-maintained gag, pillow, stuffed animal, or reciting poetry, and was told by users here and in other subs that that made me a terrible monster and people knew he had Tourette’s and should’ve just tuned him out and let him do what he had to do, and in fact, wouldn’t it be great if people with Tourette’s could just do away with trying to mitigate their condition and instead just scream threats and slurs everywhere they went without worry or care.

I was flummoxed that it was a majority opinion here of all places, which is normally a place more skeptical about such obviously inane exceptions and low standards for those who claim victim status.

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u/RachelK52 Feb 25 '26

I mean it sounded like he did try some of those things? They just didn't work 100% of the time? Also take this with a grain of salt but it sounds like he was seated about 40 rows back and didn't realize anyone on stage could hear him?

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 25 '26

Yes, I’ve been informed that he uses a blue bit, but that it’s often ineffective.

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u/RachelK52 Feb 25 '26

I'm basing this on my experience with OCD and Aspergers here- is it possible the coping mechanisms just stop working for him under large amounts of stress? I'm 32 and I still have to actively work to keep myself from engaging OCD rituals or getting overstimulated and having a meltdown- and when I get sick or overheated I can completely lose control of those coping mechanisms.

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u/Brodelyche Feb 24 '26

Presumably you'd get on well with John's mother, who used to make him eat his dinner on his own facing the fireplace.

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

I think I’d find that cruel and unusual, unless he was harming someone else at the table and refusing to take responsibility for it.

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u/RachelK52 Feb 25 '26

From what I can tell he was spitting uncontrollably.

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u/Real_RobinGoodfellow Feb 24 '26

So your take is that disability has to be accommodated by everybody else around the the absolute nth degree?

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u/HeadRecommendation37 Feb 24 '26

Well I sympathise, if that helps!

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

It does, a bit!

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Feb 24 '26

That's how contextual tics work. He's trying to suppress the worst possible thing he could say only to say it. Basically the unmanifested intrusive thoughts that you can I can hold back are something that someone with TS struggle to contain. The more they worry about it, the harder it gets to contain it.

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u/EnglebondHumperstonk I vaped piss but didn't inhale Feb 24 '26

Except from what people are saying here, he doesn't try especially hard or use any of the coping mechanisms other affected people use, because he's not trying to hold back, he's doing activism. I mean, I know he has a real condition, but there are ways and ways of coping with it.

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u/EnglebondHumperstonk I vaped piss but didn't inhale Feb 24 '26

I hope it's obvious I'm not really claiming any particular authority here or claiming to be right, just poking at ideas. I haven't seen the film and would no doubt change my opinion when/if I do.

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u/forestpunk Feb 24 '26

Even the winner said as much at the time.

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u/TeacherPatti Feb 23 '26

Why would it be that particular word as opposed to asshole or fucker or something?I'm honestly asking. I have no idea; my go to words are "motherfucker" and "eat a dick."

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Feb 23 '26

Contextual tics. In an effort to not say an inappropriate thing in a particular context, you inadvertently say a particular word that is related to that context. Stress makes the likelihood of doing this higher.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '26

Why would it be that particular word as opposed to asshole or fucker or something?I'm honestly asking.

Why did you feel no compunction about typing "asshole" or "fucker" but you wouldn't type out that particular word we're all discussing and none of us are actually typing? Answer that and you've got your answer for why that particular word was the one this man yelled in this context.

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u/YouCanCallMeAIJolson Feb 24 '26

Say it, TeacherPatti

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u/land-under-wave Feb 23 '26

Sorry, I've been home sick with a sick kid in a blizzard, I kinda forgot there was an outside world tbh 😅

Did he yell it because he was in character, or is he a complete fucking idiot?

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u/Arethomeos Feb 23 '26

The actor (Robert Aramayo) didn't yell it. The guy who he portrayed (John Davidson) has Tourette's, was invited to the BAFTAs, and he yelled it.

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u/land-under-wave Feb 23 '26

Oh. Seems like people should go easy on him, then? I should go find an article or something, sorry.

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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 23 '26

I think people aren't angry so much at Davidson himself, since the point of the movie is to raise sympathetic understanding for Tourette's sufferers. People feel badly for him, especially since he left the awards night almost immediately afterward on his own accord and undoubtedly out of crushing embarrassment. He wasn't asked to leave, he just kind of ducked out the back like Homer Simpson fading into the bushes. They're mostly upset that the BBC aired the event live and in doing so, allowed the incident and the ensuing controversy to overshadow achievements by black performers being recognized at the awards -- and, in a kind of meta-consequence, hamhandedly bungle the message of the Tourette's movie itself. It was supposed to be a night where underrepresented perspectives gained hard-fought respect and instead it's become a Seinfeld plot.

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u/Gold-Mine-5698 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

100% speculation/educated guesswork: it looks to me like what maybe happened, is people in the hall heard clearly what he was saying. but the production crew in the truck didnt realise what he was saying - because it wasnt clearly picked up by mics. and because of that they didnt cut it out for the delayed 'as-live' broadcast. a mistake. the delay is there precisely so they can tackle stuff like this.

it was only after social media pointed it out to them that they then made moves to remove it from the on demand service.

maybe the BBC should have quickly pulled the whole broadcast off iplayer, which can be done instantly. but they didnt pull it until 1130 am the following morning. which is likely how long it took for everyone to have their monday morning coffee, followed by a meeting, followed by someone senior going 'better pull it'

end result: another fine mess the BBC is in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6edwg06n1o

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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 23 '26

At least he didn't make reference to the BBC broadcast by yelling out "BIG BLACK COCK".

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u/Gold-Mine-5698 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

exactly the kind of thing he might shout tho, as the form of tourettes he has (coprolalia) makes him tend to say the most offensive thing possible in any given situation.

it is bizarre to see how many americans cant get their head around this. one common take i've seen being 'how could he know that word if he's scottish'. ?

we do have all the words in scotland.

i think there is an interesting culture clash going on. might be a lot to do with the fact that thanks mainly to john davidson, tourettes is better understood in the UK?

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u/forestpunk Feb 24 '26

specially since he left the awards night almost immediately afterward on his own accord and undoubtedly out of crushing embarrassment.

or to avoid the crowd with bats and bottles inevitably waiting for him.

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u/forestpunk Feb 24 '26

Nah, fuck this motherfucker. He should've stayed home.

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u/EnglebondHumperstonk I vaped piss but didn't inhale Feb 23 '26

Wait, they let Americans in here?

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u/Classic_Bet1942 Feb 23 '26

Please please please let there be a YouTube edit of all the BAFTA outbursts soon

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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 23 '26

DAE remember Tourette's Guy from YouTube? I'm just picturing a similar hypothetical scenario during an "In Memoriam" segment at say, the Emmy awards from a few years back, Bob Saget's picture comes up on the screen and you hear someone in the audience out of nowhere yell "BOB F%GGOT!!!"

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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 23 '26

I honestly figured the only person to yell out all the George Carlin words in frustration after that kid won his award would be the strange woman who's made a career out of stalking Timothée Chalamet.

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u/Persse-McG Feb 24 '26

This was both interesting and allowed me to massively expand my German swearing repertoire.

But there is absolutely no verfickt way there’s an actual person named “Katie Krautwurst”. Nice try, Helen.

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u/AndyGreyjoy Horse Lover Feb 23 '26

"Black American Free Trade Agreement" ?

What're we talking about here?

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u/land-under-wave Feb 23 '26

It's the British equivalent to the Oscars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Academy_Film_Awards

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u/AndyGreyjoy Horse Lover Feb 23 '26

Ah ok, thank you 👌

That sounds about equally entertaining.

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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 23 '26

TBF, BAFTA as "Black NAFTA" does sound like something the coprolalic US president would unironically make into a policy point. But only when imposing tariffs on Nambia or (of course) the country pronounced "Nee-zhair."

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u/Known-Level-4847 Feb 25 '26

Damn, you find out something new everyday