How Does Tourette's Syndrome Affect Society

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Living with Tourette’s Compared to not Living with Tourette’s the Daily Impact Marie Allen East Tennessee State University Social Work Student Abstract Born in Blacksburg, South Carolina until he was 3 years old and his brother was born, moved to Limestone, Tennessee, where he lived with is parents and grandparents until, his family was financially stable and bought a trailer. Brandon Smith now age 17 was diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome at the age of 9. Brandon tells me the story of his life and the struggles he has with Tourette’s syndrome. Tourette’s syndrome is involuntary tics and twitches of muscles and cursing caused by a neurological disorder. This disorder usually occurs in people from all ethnic groups. However, males…show more content…
Being the butt of bullies and social outcast for having Tourette’s syndrome was a major impact on everyday life. Misunderstood, feared and harassed by even ordinary people, not understanding what this disorder was. Tourette’s affected grades and friendships. As, time went on it got easier at the first school Westview. However, moving when the new Grandview Elementary School opened it proved to be a difficult time once again. We discussed why it had become difficult and it was said, “because kids did not understand why the twitching was happening and kept asking questions after questions it became tire sum (B. Smith, personal communication, October 10, 2014). Also, just that it was something out of the norm, people were not used…show more content…
It was said that the values of family, love and health play a big part in life now. Religion helps in the coping of this disorder and with that anything can be possible. Being different from one another in that one of us feels safe driving and the other does not. This impacts everyday tasks. We figured out that if a Tourette’s attack happens it, could cause a wreck, where one does not have the disorder it would seem stupid to feel this way. We established safety was more important than the chance of hurting oneself or another. In choosing a career path we both chose our paths for different reasons. Our paths are social work and forensic profiling. We chose our paths based on our desires to help people. Although they are completely different fields in the end our careers do not define us rather we define our careers. Torette’s “ Is like and itch that never goes away no matter how many times you scratch it, wires are crossed in the brain, but that does not make us any different from the next person” (B. Smith, personal communication, October 10,

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