This disease cannot be cured, and the frequency of attacks can only be controlled with drugs. Jiang Yunsheng summarized it as "a terminal disease that cannot die."
Liang Shiqiu wrote an article "Cusing people is a profound knowledge".
He said that there is no one in ancient and modern China and abroad who does not scold people. This is a way to vent their feelings, but not everyone can try it casually. After that, there were a few scolding tricks, such as setting ambush, retreating as advance and so on.
At that time, after reading it, I felt that it was no more incisive, until I found out that there are a group of people in this world who keep swearing and swearing, but not to vent their emotions, and often accompanied by convulsions and some strange noises.
Like Frederick in [boarding school] .
He kept twisting his neck in class, and when he spoke, he would say "fuck you", and he didn't have time to think about Liang Shiqiu's scolding.
Another example is Naina in [Mr. Hiccup] .
It takes four hiccups to speak two sentences. After burping, I will unconsciously pat my chin with the back of my hand, and my head will twitch to the left from time to time.
While there is no sign of swearing, it can develop into a mouthful of foul language if left unchecked.
Because of this, Naina was ridiculed by teachers and classmates since she was a child. When she grew up, she applied for teaching positions many times, but she failed. From the bottom of my heart, my father could not tolerate her defect, and even thought that she had destroyed his dignity.
But what kind of flaw is this?
In the reviews of the film, some people generalized it as "tic disorder", some people called it "the first time I heard it", and some people said it was "almost unheard of".
Tourette Syndrome, which has a more colloquial but discriminatory name: Tourette's syndrome.
"It's really ugly," said the director Jiang Yunsheng in the documentary [Due Duo Happiness], " as Alzheimer's disease is called 'senile dementia' and Tourette's disease, it sounds like the patient likes to curse. "
At that time, in 2016, the 27th year of Jiang Yunsheng's illness, he held a premiere sharing session at the Pudong Library. When standing on the stage, the corners of his eyebrows and mouth would twitch involuntarily, and he made a vague and strange guttural sound.
This year, VR virtual reality technology has been popularized, one tenth of American households have intelligent interactive robots, China successfully launched the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft, and astronauts can stay in space for 30 days.
There is still no cure for Tourette's syndrome.
Not to mention healing, just reciting its full name is really difficult in China. But the US awareness rate is considerable because [call me number one] .
The male protagonist is named Brad. His IQ is no different from his peers, and he also has the ability to take care of himself. He plays baseball very well, and is more creative and teaching talent. The worst part is that he laughs like good weather.
If he didn't twitch for no reason, or suddenly scream when his father was talking, his life would be decent and calm. It may also be a tougher life, so ordinary people are looking for a job and worrying about getting a college entrance examination and marrying a wife.
It will not transfer schools one after another, and still be looked down upon by classmates and teachers.
The stranger said, "I don't know what's wrong with him." The father thought he was naughty, and the mother's friend asked, " Have you considered finding someone to exorcise the devil ?"
It is no exaggeration, even a developed country such as the United States will think that this disease is related to evil forces. In a "police abuse incident" in the 1960s, the abused suffered from this disease, but the police insisted, " He is Satan. "
Today, China is also making this mistake.
In [Appropriate Happiness], because Jiang Yunsheng often "wrinkled his eyebrows", his parents first turned to ophthalmology, and then turned to psychiatric treatment.
There are also families who believe that this is a "little ghost in the body" and should be driven out by witchcraft, so they forcibly pour the so-called "holy water" on the child.
[Call me No. 1] Although not so exaggerated, I have also sought the wrong doctor. It was his mother who took Brad to see the psychologist. The doctor thought it was his resistance to his parents' divorce, and asked him if he was complaining that his father didn't live with you.
No wonder they guessed like that.
In 1885, French doctor Tourette first discovered this symptom and described it as "a serious tic disorder", including motor tics, vocal tics, and combined tics, but the cause has never been found.
At present, the medical community generally supports the " dopamine transmitter disorder " hypothesis.
Due to the abnormal increase in the activity of dopamine, the human nervous system is suddenly excited regardless of time, occasion and object, and some intricate information is wrongly transmitted to the brain. After the brain receives it and sends it to the body, people have twitches and spasms, and express these incomplete information through language.
It's really like a prank.
Although the probability of the disease given by medicine is 0.3% to 1%, and the male to female ratio is 3:1, there are more than 300,000 adults and children in the UK who suffer from the disease, and one in every 200 people in Taiwan.
But the actual number of patients is much higher than these confirmed numbers.
Because many people's symptoms are too difficult to detect, even if they do, they will be regarded as a prank, or they have eaten badly or hadn't slept well.
American goalkeeper Tim Howard has had this disease since he was a child. In 2007, he transferred to the Premier League Everton team and needed a medical examination. As a result, the team doctor was stunned to find out, and it was not diagnosed until he signed up for the World Cup.
Moreover , this disease cannot be cured, and the frequency of attacks can only be controlled with drugs. Jiang Yunsheng summarized it as "a terminal disease that cannot die." In this case, who still has the energy to go to the hospital for diagnosis?
Fortunately, in [Call Me No. 1], Brad's mother never gave up, took him to a mutual aid group, and gave him full understanding and encouragement.
So, facing the cold eyes and ridicule, Brad began to explain his illness to the people around him, determined not to admit defeat to Tourette syndrome. Eventually, he got his college degree cum laude and became a teacher.
This isn't the first movie about Tourette's syndrome.
As early as 1997's [Niagara, Niagara] , Robin Tunney played a Tourette Syndrome named Marcy.
She was driving an off-road vehicle, planning to go to Canada with a man named Seth, and she twitched involuntarily and babbled on the road. The only thing that can stop this behavior is alcohol and sex.
In 1999's [Hala Men's Show] , the male protagonist met countless beauties in one job, and one of them claimed to be suffering from Tourette Syndrome.
In 2008, Phoebe's Adventures in Wonderland was released, starring Elle Fanning, then 9, as a patient with Tourette's syndrome. Not only does she twitch, she spit at her classmates, and she has no control over these behaviors of her own volition.
In the Korean drama "It's Okay, It's Love" , the coffee shop clerk played by Lee Kwang Soo also has this disease, and will always make a series of strange calls such as "xiang, 598, puff, ah" unconsciously.
The subsequent [Vincent Watching the Sea] and [The Uncommon Road] revolved around this theme. The protagonist wanted to integrate into the society, but had no choice but to run into a wall. Finally, through travel and speeding on the road, he reached a reconciliation with the world and himself.
Although there are many films, the symptoms are similar to those of [Call Me No. 1] and [Mr. Hiccup], all of which are body convulsions and strange sounds in the throat.
Where does "dirty language" come from?
In fact, this is the most serious type of voice convulsions, and it is rare, accounting for only 20% of all patients. However, medical studies have found that after a few years of suffering from the disease, the probability of slurping dirty words can increase to 60%.
There is even a documented case of a deaf patient with Tourette syndrome expressing Fuck and Shit in sign language.
It is also easy to distinguish it from ordinary swear words. The swear words spoken by people with Tourette syndrome are usually irrelevant to the context. They are all suddenly popped up in an ordinary sentence, which is illogical and does not fit the context.
It's like the material that has been edited and mixed in the patient's mind, blurted out, even they themselves can't understand.
There is such a girl in the American TV series "Hundred Years Tavern" . For a while, Yeltsin fucked my dad, and for a while, "You have shit on your dick", which made the man on the opposite end unbearable, and the blind date ended.
Movie [Square] also has it. It was a serious interview session, and there was always an audience member who called him "jerk" and "bitch", and interrupted the interview several times. Fortunately, someone came forward to explain that he was suffering from mental torture.
It is said that this symptom is inseparable from the type of language, and Westerners who speak alphabetic languages are more prone to the disease than Easterners who speak written languages.
To avoid offending others, patients often use alternative words or initials, such as "FFFFFFF," when they want to swear.
It's not all good.
Studies have shown that people with Tourette syndrome have better emotional management skills than the average person. And because the frontal lobe of the left brain is different from ordinary people, it forces the right brain to get extraordinary exercise, making it very prominent in sports and music.
Like Mozart .
He is said to have spewed swear words like "lick my ass clean" and "Empty fart! Empty fart! Oh, a good word".
Another example is singer Eminem .
There are two impressions he left on the fans, one is the strange swear words in the lyrics, and the other is that he always likes to shake his hands when he sings. But these are not his Freestyle, but from Tourette Syndrome.
Of course, not all patients are as talented as Eminem or Mozart. Not all patients are like Brad in [Call Me Number One], with a mother who believes in her unconditionally.
Most people will only be like their past, such as Naina in [Mr. Hiccup] , and even the alma mater that nurtured her will reject her resume.
It was difficult for a school to accept her as a teacher, but she was assigned to a poor student class, and was ridiculed and teased by the students all day long.
Fortunately, she doesn't care what others do. Only she herself knows what kind of perseverance and bravery is used to pave the way for a Tourette's patient to obtain a double degree step by step .
Therefore, although she was angry, she was even more ambitious, turning her weakness into motivation, giving this class of poor students the confidence they had never had before, and finally ascending to the position of principal.
It doesn't matter, Tourette's syndrome is just, how bad it can be.
You see, she has been ridiculed by her family and teachers since she was a child, and maybe you are too. When she grew up, she encountered many obstacles in finding a job, and maybe you did too. Then she was never knocked down, and probably, neither were you.
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Author/Aunt Liu
The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Bao Ci Er"
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