I just read about a disease called Tourette's syndrome. It got me thinking, do people have that in Nigeria? Alot of diseases could be in existence here but no one would know what they really are. Here's the definition of the disease: Neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia. I'd like to know if anyone in the house has it.

i remember watching a show about it sometime ago on oprah. they're lots of conditions most Nigerians are ignorant of. tourette's just happen to be one of them. reports in the uk claims it affects 1 in 10,000. i'm not sure we can go by the same stats here in Nigeria or we'll be talking about over 150,000 people affected by the disorder.
here's a video about kids suffering form toourette's. you can see they're pretty regular kids apart from the uncoordinated sudden movements or facial expressions.

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Come to think of it, I have seen people with this syndrome in Nigeria. A friend of mine back in school always twitched her eyes instead of blinking.

they probably have but many will attribute it to other "juju" and evil spirits stuffs

^^^ they'll say the person is possesed

tourettes can be found in EVERY country on the planet!

Yeah! I have Tourette Syndrome.

I have been watching some shows recently about people living it with it. Its very scary because I thought that they were possessed or something.
There is a man in our school, he talks reasonably but his hands tends to move uncontrollably and he caught my attention because if he was mad then this has to be a special form of madness. I was usually scared watching him. But know I understand that he may have tourrettes. I think awareness should be created on this

I have been watching some shows recently about people living it with it. Its very scary because I thought that they were possessed or something.
There is a man in our school, he talks reasonably but his hands tends to move uncontrollably and he caught my attention because if he was mad then this has to be a special form of madness. I was usually scared watching him. But know I understand that he may have tourrettes. I think awareness should be created on this.