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Opinion – Julio Abramczyk: Inappropriate behavior can be a disease

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Some misbehaving people who tend to make obscene gestures for no reason are part of a restricted group that is socially avoided and always misunderstood.

These people, regardless of gender, can also spontaneously swear and even offend bystanders, even when unprovoked.

He or she is carriers of Tourette’s syndrome, named after the French physician Georges Gilles de la Tourette, who brought together a group of people with this disease in 1825.

Tourette’s syndrome is a childhood-onset neurological disorder associated with a problem with impulse control, tantrums, or other behaviors, according to neurologists.

In the United States, a national child health survey conducted from 2016 to 2017 identified 104 of 186 children diagnosed with Tourette syndrome or chronic tic disorder who were bullied (physical or verbal bullying), as reported by parents.

Recently, the journal Jama Neurology published an editorial stating that public opinion remains focused on the involuntary and repetitive use of obscene language.

They add that inappropriate behavior has resulted in reactions that create social rejection and difficulty in establishing relationships.

For experts from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, much of the social adversity experienced by people with this problem is partly caused by misperceptions about the disorder by parents, teachers, colleagues, health professionals and the community at large.

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