{"id":2296852,"date":"2026-02-24T04:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2296852"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:40:17","slug":"for-the-tourette-syndrome-community-the-baftas-brought-on-a-familiar-dread-like-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/for-the-tourette-syndrome-community-the-baftas-brought-on-a-familiar-dread-like-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Tourette Syndrome Community, the BAFTAs Brought on a Familiar Dread-Like Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the advocate Jess Thom<\/a> heard about a person with Tourette\u2019s \u201cticcing\u201d the BAFTAs, she had a familiar feeling: dread.<\/p>\n

Thom has Tourette Syndrome and when she got word of what happened with John Davidson<\/a>, it brought to the surface many of the misunderstandings and confused reactions she has spent her life trying to fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of myths and oversimplifications about Tourette Syndrome, and a global frenzy is not the best place to have a conversation about them,\u201d the U.K.-based Thom, 45, said by Zoom from her home Monday evening as she reflected on the events. \u201cAnd it\u2019s all happening in a climate with increased hostility to disabled people, with threats to Medicaid and the Ada<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davidson<\/a> at the ceremony engaged in \u201cticcing,\u201d the term for when people who have Tourette Syndrome, or Ts, involuntarily say or do something that can have the effect of making others uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the advocate Jess Thom heard about a person with Tourette\u2019s \u201cticcing\u201d the BAFTAs, she had a familiar feeling: dread. Thom has Tourette Syndrome and when she got word of what happened with John Davidson, it brought to the surface many of the misunderstandings and confused reactions she has spent her life trying to fight. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2296853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2296852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/For-the-Tourette-Syndrome-Community-the-BAFTAs-Brought-on-a.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296854,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296852\/revisions\/2296854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}