Fireside Chats, Episode 39: Living With Tourette Syndrome

Summary: Tourette Syndrome (also known as Tourette's Syndrome, or simply Tourette's) is a neuropsychiatric disorder that many have reduced to a caricature of a person screaming loudly and shouting curse words. But Tourette's is much more than that, a disorder that affects 1 in 100 school-age children, an ailment that shares heavy overlap with ADHD and OCD, and something that can alter one's ability to learn, find acceptance, and succeed in life. So I invited Anthony Flarida to have a Fireside Chat with me. Anthony not only has Tourette's; his son does, too. We discuss his experience dealing with this syndrome, how it has positively and adversely affected his life, and what it's like raising a child that suffers from the same problem.