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Shane

Causes sudden movements and noises “ticks”

Shane is partly in control of it and yet at other times it controls him

His tourette’s keeps him always observing and pondering…passerbys would see him as weird.

Acting goofy, high energy, behaviors out of context, random comments

Up until the 60’s it was seen as a phycological problem and thus could be solved with medication

Tourette’s is a unique diagnosis. Every person has a different type. While they may have similar actions, there is no set of things that someone with Tourette’s does all the time and thus like snowflakes, each person with Tourette’s is unique.

Sometimes Tourette’s impulse is to break boundaries. Not quite as worried that they’ll hurt others, but more that they’ll hurt themselves.

Sometimes drugs are taken to help reduce the larger “ticks”

Shane found a way to reduce and use his “ticks” through karate. He could take advantage and integrate it into his technique in karate.

The animals seem to calm Shane. He is able to connect with tigers and when riding a horse, Shane’s ticks seem to disappear as they do with karate.

Shane is able to connect directly with people and can often make an “instant friend.” Retaining and maintaining those relationships, however, is very difficult for him and people who are patient enough to keep up with his energy are few and far between.

Tourette’s is a double sword. It pushes an individual both towards brilliance and destruction

Presentation-Down Syndrome

• identified after John Langdon Down, a physician, began grouping people who looked alike.

• Originally called them “mongoloids” but was changed to “down syndrome”

• Caused by a copy of a chromosome

• Physical signs:
- one crease in the...