For some reason YouTube’s algorithm decided I needed to see this. So, guess what, you get to see it too: a British school girl undergoing one dire Tourette’s tic attack. Comes complete with NSFW language and some seriously self-destructive actions. This is clearly a heck of an issue for her. But imagine what her life would have been like a few centuries ago when the only explanation for this would have been demonic possession or some such.
We live in some crazy damned times. There are a *lot* of people out there with a large range of emotional/mental/psychological/neurological issues… and a lot more people who tell them that they should feel proud for it. That they should revel in it. That children should be indoctrinated to actually desire such things. That society should tell these people that their delusions are *real.* That rather than seeking a cure, they should be rolling around in their troubles like a glue-covered pig rolling in glitter. But I have the sneaking suspicion that if this girl was given the opportunity to take a single pill that would end her Tourettes side effect free, she’d leap at it.
In a Star Trek future, Doctor McCoy would run a tricorder over her, diagnose her problem and zap her with Space Magic Healing Ray (TM), and she’d be fine from then on. Someone with cancer or schizophrenia or clinical depression… same thing. But if someone came along who claimed to be a pandemifurrytwospirittransGorn… why, gotta *celebrate* that and lock up anyone who says “maybe they’re just nuts.”