Google News is great. I seriously suggest signing up for an account at Google (privacy issues aside) and creating your own custom news page. I have world news, US news, business news, and tech news all in one page. I also have custom sections for "commodore 64", "amiga computer", "goth", and now even "Tourette's".
For anyone who hasn't had to sit through one of my explanations of this fun little disorder, here's an article from someone at Carroll College in Cleveland, OH entitled Inside The Mind: Tourette's And Tics.
See, now that I have a Google News section about Tourette's, I can find out when informative articles like this are published. But, there's a down side. I also get to hear about every time a reporter somewhere uses Tourette's as a synonym for "swears a lot" or I guess "speaks without thinking".
CNN's Jack Cafferty must be the surliest commentator on television. His brand of candor could best be described as Tourette's syndrome for pundits.
Source: The Blog House: Not so much support for Dubai Ports World deal, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Choosing blinds for the kitchen at the weekend, I had to suppress a Tourette's syndrome-style outburst of my credit-card details when I saw the lovely Cath Kidston pale-pink-with-white-spots fabric.
Source: The body beautiful: everyone can wear pinkThe Daily Telegraph, UK
I don't know why these bother me so much. I guess I feel that if it were some other syndrome, say Autism, they'd be afraid to print it. But since people with the Tourette's/OCD family of conditions are otherwise normal people capable of doing everything else that everyone else does just as they do it (twitching as they do it, of course) we're seen as "safe". I mean, look at me & my life. I don't exactly evoke pity, do I? *shrug*
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