<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (L_C @ Dec 14 2006, 08:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>no one mentioned Mr. Michael J. Fox yet? DarnThat sucks man, good luck.</div>Michael J. Fox has Parkinson's disease, not Tourette's syndrome.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (L_C @ Dec 15 2006, 11:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Oh, sorry about that.Not to be a dick, but aren't the two really similar?</div>Well Muhammad Ali has Parkinsons, and parkinsons can kill I think, not sure, but tourettes, gives yout hese things called ticks and you like do stuff without noticing it, like amke sudden movements and other cases people shout stuff.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (L_C @ Dec 15 2006, 05:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Oh, sorry about that.Not to be a dick, but aren't the two really similar?</div>They are similar in that they can cause involuntary movements, but that's kinda where the similarity ends.Usually Tourette's is something that can happen to people of any age, whereas Parkinson's tends to hit people as they get older (notice that Fox, Ali, etc., didn't have those problems in their youth). Tourette's is a psychological thing. Your brain causes the "tics" as they are called. With Parkinson's, the movements are caused due to your nervous system breaking down. As you get older, it deteriorates more and more, until your system no longer communicates to your heart to keep beating, or your lungs to keep breathing. As far as I know, that doesn't happen with Tourette's.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC? @ Dec 14 2006, 09:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I seen that episode, His tourrettes were not bad at all. His wife is pretty hot too. Now that other chick, She was a nut case. She got cured though.</div>ooo so the surgery worked. I know on the show it said it hadn't worked as of yet which was like a year ago. Anywho... Yeah she was nuts. I know she has/had tourette's and that can be a hard thing to deal with, but she was just being a total psycho :\
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (L_C @ Dec 15 2006, 05:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Oh, sorry about that.Not to be a dick, but aren't the two really similar?</div>not quite, the tics with tourrettes are somewhat controllable, whereas with parkinsons its an uncontrollable nerve thing. and you eventually die from parkinson's right?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nba dogmatist @ Dec 15 2006, 11:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>not quite, the tics with tourrettes are somewhat controllable, whereas with parkinsons its an uncontrollable nerve thing. and you eventually die from parkinson's right?</div>Yep, like I said, your nerves start to deteriorate until your brain isn't communicating with your vital organs at all.
