However, it is impossible to make people stop making fun of those who are different. They are afraid, or just can't accept different people, it was like that for ages... Spartans used to threw babies with mutations down a Cliff... Europeans used to call different people witches and demons just to kill them...

That became almost natural for society... how sad...

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I agree with everyone.

However, it is impossible to make people stop making fun of those who are different. They are afraid, or just can't accept different people, it was like that for ages... Spartans used to threw babies with mutations down a Cliff... Europeans used to call different people witches and demons just to kill them...

That became almost natural for society... how sad...

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Obviously I wouldn't go up to one of them and laugh in their face, but a quiet chuckle to myself I will do.

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The tourrettes guy or whatever he is called is a disgrace and should be banned.

i have tourrettes. moter and verbal tics although, fortunatly i do not swear.

Right, so we're not supposed to make with the laughs. Should we keep quiet when you're there, and make jokes later? Isn't that worse, and an act of cowardice to mock someone behind their back instead of to their face? Or do we stop making jokes entirely, and let anyone with a problem and a victim complex dictate what's fair game for comedy? Do we make SOME jokes, because quantity is important and the less jokes the less it's going to hurt? Help me out here.

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Why the hell should we show respect? Respect is something to be earned, not given out because you're different or used to justify special treatment so we can all feel like such understanding, enlightened people.  

Right, so we're not supposed to make with the laughs. Should we keep quiet when you're there, and make jokes later? Isn't that worse, and an act of cowardice to mock someone behind their back instead of to their face? Or do we stop making jokes entirely, and let anyone with a problem and a victim complex dictate what's fair game for comedy? Do we make SOME jokes, because quantity is important and the less jokes the less it's going to hurt? Help me out here.

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You should show respect as people who have to live with tourrettes have got enough to deal with without immature idiots thinking their condition is funny.

I have people come up to me and say they wish they had tourrettes because it is 'cool'. Let me tell you, it is not cool. I have had to miss 2 years of school, visit 3 psyciatrists and been excluded, made fun of, beat up too many times to count all because of my condition. Let me tell you. It is not cool.

So the answer is, dont make jokes at all. What if your son/daughter had tourrettes, would you follow your child around the house, mocking them beacuse they were unfortunate enough to have the disease?

What do you earn from making jokes? yes, you and your pals get a laugh, but other than humiliating the victim you are humiliating yourself in the eye of the parents, friends, and relatives of the person unfortunate enough to encounter you.

Im not saying you should respect a person just because they have a disease. But respect that it is a serious condition, an disease that cannot be cured. Dont resect the person because they are different but respect their condition, and realise that it is a big part of their life and even though it might be funny to you, to them it is not .

Post edited at 6:01 pm on Mar. 31, 2008 by ii rock

How the fuck is the fact that people have told you tourettes is cool related to anything I said?

Why gives you the right to dictate what is acceptable grounds for me and my friends to make jokes?

I respect people for their accomplishments, or their intelligence, or their nature. Having Tourettes is none of those. Why should I respect someone for something they have no control over? Should I respect black people for being black?

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I happen to find tourettes guy funny/entertaining, but only because it's so exaggerated and ridiculous. When I see someone behaving tourettes-like in public, I just feel sympathy for him/her and his/her entire family.

Laughing at someone who has tourette's is just like laughing at someone who is autistic.