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Surrender Your Say
People were swearing on Twitter today - for a good reason
The Tourette Sydrome Foundation of Canada are also raising awareness of the condition with a documentary about sufferers.
IMAGINE NOT BEING in control of what you said on your Twitter account.
Granted, many of us have been a position where we’ve left social media sites open only to return to find our sexual preference, parentage or relationship status has been altered in our absence.
But the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada yesterday asked Twitter users to allow them to post “tics” on a users behalf for 24 hours. Users were still be able to tweet normally, but were subject to random postings over which they had no control.
People with Tourette Syndrome suffer from involuntary outbursts, both vocal and physical, and the foundation say it could come in many guises.
“Tics are a lot more complex than just swearing. A tic could be anything – jumping, screaming, sneezing, twitching- and is completely uncontrolled.
Many people with Tourette Syndrome compare their tics to a sneeze, because they’re almost impossible to hold in, and the person won’t feel better until they allow themselves to tic.
Nearly 8,000 users signed up, with the foundation saying that volunteers got to experience just a little of what Tourette sufferers go through.
The foundation also commissioned a documentary about Tourettes called @random which allows viewers to choose their own video length.
The documentary is then randomly put together from a selection of different videos about the condition.
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