Alright, most people with tourettes do not say random words! I have tourettes, and when you read up on it, you find that it's actually a very small percentage of people that say words they don't mean, or that shout obscenities without meaning to.

Everyone thinks that that's what tourettes is just because of that asinine basketball player who shouted obscenities at a game then claimed he had tourettes as an excuse, when he didn't even have it.

Vocal tics are more common than saying actual words. Vocal tics are sounds that you can make, and most people I have met with vocal tics don't even use their voice, instead, they flex their muscles in their throat and it changes the airflow and makes a clicking sound. Or they snort air out their noses or sniff a lot. Eye tics are also sometimes considered 'vocal' by some people, because they're in an area that expresses a lot of emotion.

I'm sorry for being hostile, it's just... I fucking hate it when people hear tourettes mentioned and the first thing that comes to mind is coprolalia.

Every person I've met with tourettes gets just as offended as I do, and it seems that everyone who doesn't have tourettes thinks of coprolalia, instead of what tourettes actually is. And there are other illnesses that coprolalia is a symtom of, not just tourettes.

Coprolalia is rare in tourettes.

Please, I beg you to read this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome