tourette's syndrome

Tourette’s Syndrome
“Listen boys…I’m gonna have to close down the the the bar…They are closing down buildings all over this town including this one…Fuck...Ass…and they’re not letting me renew the release.” (Boondock Saints, Troy Duffy, Franchise Pictures, 1999)
The bartender of the classic movie “Boondock Saints” is given the name Fuckass for his typical outbursts like this one. Although here the bartender’s case of tourette’s syndrome is joked about, this neurological disorder is not something that should be taken lightly. Many people are unable to function normally because of the effect tourette’s syndrome has on their life.
Tourette’s syndrome was named after a French Neurologist, Dr. George Gilles de la Tourette, who, in 1885, first described nine patients with tics, uncontrollable noises and symptoms that are now linked to attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. At first this bizarre disorder was ...