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Inside the anguish of a Tourette’s outburst after BAFTA racial slur debacle
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I Swear is a movie based on the account of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson, who grew up with the condition in 1980s Scotland.
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Christina Caron and Simar Bajaj
Ms Emauni Crawley, 23, a behavioral health coach with Tourette’s syndrome, has a severe type of tic that results in her saying things that are obscene or inappropriate.
“Your brain wants to say the worst things at the worst time in the worst places,” said Ms Crawley, who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Like at work, where she recently called a co-worker a derogatory term.
