I’m wondering how many other people are also afflicted with my self diagnosed disease. ... my secret social tourettes problem ... [in a social situation, in regards to your response] Are you able to think on your feet and to deliver a well-rounded and informed answer ... Or do you shoot from the hip and like to tell it as you think it is, regardless of bruising feelings and the dastardly ego? ... I do have this niggling secret burning desire, that is starting to itch really bad. I just want to let rip sometimes, to tell people exactly what I think, a bit like a verbal diarrhoea I guess.
I don’t mean to be an obnoxious prick, it’s just my default setting. A friend got married recently. We were supposed to meet for a drink. He sent me a text message saying, ‘Can’t do that drink until next week – my wife’s dad had a heart attack and he’s in hospital’. I hit reply and typed, ‘Bad news. Was this before or after he took receipt of the bill for the wedding reception?’ and NEARLY PRESSED SEND. What’s the matter with me?
Social Tourettes:
Cost: -2
Effect: You are possessed by an urge to FLATTEN people, to drag them through the mud, deserved or not, if you know something that would embaress them you need to pass etiquette rolls to no say it in the most horrible way possible.
Summary: Say something BAD if you fail a Etiquette+Will roll.
it’s about my severe case of social tourettes. ... Paul runs his own company so I asked him what it did. He replied recruitment. Ok, I am known for being slightly blunt but I’m not normally socially retarded – I just blurted out, ew, yuck, I hate recruitment people. ... Damn that I was born without a filter!
I think the primary issue in play is the still the phenomenon of mass social tourettes that has taken the world by storm with the advent of internet based social media (SM). Preteens, grandparents, teachers, congressmen (ahem, Weiner), doctors, etc are all of a sudden creating personal profiles that present a self-image in a democratic and yes I mean democratic, I see people at the library using Facebook for free, medium.
"Mum, what are your thoughts on Mother Teressa?" Don't ask me how or why, but my immediate answer was "slut". Perhaps I thought I was being radical, alternative, cool and a bit of of hoot! Anyway shame on me, ... It is like some sort of weird social tourettes syndrome
Whew... Online dating a.k.a. "Dysfunction Junction". The social tourettes experience! You don’t know what you really get behind these beautiful, dazzling, life loving singles! Unveiling these astounding profiles is half the fun... Hmmmmmmmm or is it?!
I used to feel the need to 'confess' all as well. I used to refer to it as my anxiety induced social tourettes syndrome. I had terrible compulsions to say anything and everything in my head, to whoever,wherever and whenever.
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Whether it’s using Twitter to ponder life’s big questions or a serious case of Social Tourettes, everyone’s got a different story to tell about how they use their phone. We thought we’d film a few of them.
Carver does attract a following of the alienated and disaffected, when she turns to publishing a fanzine called Rollerderby. Fanzines, as she explains, are the precursors to blogs, freak-seeking missiles uniting 'solitary wierdos with social Tourettes'.
Sometimes, I also start to say odd or inappropriate things out of the blue kinda like I have social Tourettes. “So do you have any diseases?” And then in my head, I’m like, “holey shit Steph, why did you say that out loud? We’re only at coffee!”
Just another person with what I call Social Tourettes, people who want to talk to someone and blurt out something inappropriate or insulting, I have an aunt like that!
A new job requires a 65 mile commute one way. Snow storms add a degree of difficulty in the first weeks as I do not yet trust myself to patch into client calls without a peer or manager there to kick me, should my social Tourettes Syndrome kick in.
I think i'd have been inclined to tell her her face was disgusting but then I have a bad case of social Tourettes.
But as you all know, I’ve got Social Tourette’s. My ability to fill vocal airspace is second to none, I can converse with the generally awkward and the smarmy sales forces. This is similar to Verbal Diarrhea except I shout things out rather than babble endlessly.
I have found it easier to control my loud behaviour at work, sometimes I am about to launch into something and I just think ‘no, that won't achieve anything’. Sometimes colleagues remind me of things I said before – often just the 'worst' thing to say in a given situation. It feels like I have had a case of 'social tourette's syndrome' – but at least they can see the funny side and I am not so bad now.
Anya is one of the more interesting characters in Buffyverse. She's sort of a combination of Spock & Carrie At The Prom, with a serious case of Social Tourette Syndrome tossed in for good measure.
If he wasn’t an emotional retard who suffers from social Tourette’s – saying virtually anything that comes into his head – and had an ounce of self-discipline, John Daly would have been a consistent world beater.
Many of us have lost our sense of social appropriateness and have developed a case of “Social Tourette’s Syndrome” where we spew out inappropriate comments as if we have no control over what is coming out of our mouths.
I work solo because I can't sustain a relationship with a group of people. It's a social tourette's thing.
Nor is the 43-year-old Gigi Grazer your typical Hollywood "Wife of" (her coinage). She is thin and beautiful, of course. But she is also outspoken (she calls her affliction "social Tourette's"), occasionally snarky (as opposed to reverential) when she speaks to reporters about her husband, and she's deeply cynical about the lot of the Hollywood wife.
I don’t know whether it’s a desire born out of boredom or a sort of premeditated “social Tourette’s”, but I have this thing where in situations where am I anything but completely and utterly comfortable I think to myself “What would be the worst, weirdest, most offensive thing I could possibly do right now?”
23-year old MA student in library science. ?, canadian, ?, and nerdier than you can shake a stick at. suffers from social tourette's.
You love your brand, yes. But possibly, you may not be the best person to promote it. Random tweets saying, “Feature my widgets” or sending random friend requests without a connection or recommendation is best referred to as social tourette’s syndrome. It’s the equivalent of walking into a room and yelling out, “Buy my product” when you aren’t aware of the conversation or how your product and/or service fits there.
Unfortunately, I am one of those people that starts chatting insanely when they get nervous (lucky for me I’m usually as cool as a cucumber). PLUS, I have this weird social- Tourette’s thing: Whenever I know I’m not supposed to say something, I have this crazy compulsion to say it anyway (like the time I said a teensy swear word during a job interview, or the time I was in a restaurant and told the woman at the table next to ours that she had spinach in her teeth- that kind of stuff.)
"I couldn't find the school where I had taught for 20 years. In group situations, I was apt to blurt out wildly inappropriate remarks, like a person with social Tourette syndrome. I cried all the time. I lost 30 pounds."
So, Social Tourette's. I am a victim. ... Actually, stunned silence would be a whole lot better than what actually happens - my brain gets that deer-in-the-headlights look, then my mouth decides to come to the rescue. And out comes some random factoid. Something not at all related (or barely so) to the conversation at hand. ... I know I do this and yet have no idea how to stop it from happening.
i have described myself as having Social Tourette’s for a very long time. i define Social Tourette’s as follows: a neuropsychiatric disorder of variable expression that is characterized by (rapidly blinking eyes and blank stares) and (screams of WTF [what the fuck!] AYFKM [are you fucking kidding me!] and YSM [you’re shitting me!] all while SMH [shaking my head] ) every time that i read or hear fuckery that supposedly sane people put on-line for the masses to partake of. these behaviors by themselves does not Social Tourette’s make. it becomes Social Tourette’s when replies and comments are penned to people with a heartily blatant peppering of the aforementioned characteristics.
Cho will say anything, not so much for a laugh, but because it is in her nature, a kind of social Tourette's syndrome not unlike that of Lenny Bruce that compels her to say unspeakable things.
It's not as if Kaplan didn't give warning of her uninhibited tongue. Prior to the season premiere of Survivor, she said, "I have social Tourette's. I say inappropriate things."
The idea that we should watch what we say, but Muslims are given a free pass is the kind of condescending attitude that I have come to expect from the left. We must act like adults while the-other is treated as if they just can’t help it. ... Or maybe its a vision of the Muslim world inflicted by social Tourette’s syndrome.
... sometimes I think that I suffer from a kind of social Tourette's (I don't mean that in any medically accurate sense, but in a very silly 'popular misapprehension' sense) and should care more about what other people think, and sometimes I think I'm far too nice, and shouldn't care at all about what other people think.
‘You’ve got a tiny bit of a black eye? How did you get it?’
He looks at me.
‘It’s a birthmark.’
Bugger!
‘I… I… I… didn’t know,’ I stammer.‘Well, you wouldn’t. I could cover it up, I could put some make-up on it now if you’d like.’‘No. God, no. It’s fine.’He laughs. ‘You’re tactful – it’s a good job I’m not disfigured, you’d have a bloody field day.’ At least we’ve established something in the first minute. He can take a joke even when it’s not intended (always a good sign), and my social Tourette’s is still an issue (not such a good sign).
If Freud had lived in Tokyo, we'd never have got analysis. He wouldn't have known where to start. It's not that we can't understand the subtlety of Japan. It's that we've been looking at it from the wrong angle. When you stop reading the signs as cultural and see them as symptoms, it all makes a sad, shuddery sense; the national depression, the social Tourette's, the vanity with its twisted, eye-enlarging, nose-straightening, blonde-adoring self loathing.
While I may appear to be the very model of manners, I do on occasion suffer from a form of social Tourette's and make the odd garrulous gaffe.