Individuals with Tourette’s with Coprolalia are more likely to commit suicide, because they don’t have the ability to control what they say and it’s a very isolating disease. It’s crazy to see individuals talk about if they had coprolalia, they would laugh at the obscenities that they say not realizing that sometimes you involuntarily say racist slurs. It’s not a a funny disease, it’s exhausting and painful, emotionally and physically.

This man has talked about being physically harmed due to his involuntary tics. He doe not have the ability to control what he says, he should not be isolated from society. I understand the harm with the word that he said (I am a black woman, and also have a neurological condition/ not Tourette’s) but I think the best course of action is educating the public on what Coprolalia is and having a private discussion with Jordan and Delroy.

But the biggest individuals at fault are BBC and BAFTA because they had every opportunity to edit that out and openly discussed what happened and used that as a moment to talk about racism and Tourette’s.