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Most of us should be pretty happy it’s Friday - even if it means the end of Tourette Syndrome Awareness Week.

(Tourette Syndrome is never, ever funny. Not even in this clip.)

If you didn’t know, it’s actually an inherited disorder involving “tics” but for most sufferers it doesn’t involve involuntarily saying four letter words that begin with “s”, “f” and occasionally “c”. Nor is it probably how namesake George Gilles de la Tourette probably expected to be remembered in history.

But what purpose does Tourette Syndrome Awareness Week actually serve? More to the point what do Awareness Days, Weeks and Years provide, period?

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  • Shifter says:

    04:54pm | 06/05/11

    An International Dropbear Awareness week. Us Aussies are already fully aware of the dangers and the ongoing cost to families and the government caused by vicious vertical attacks. Read more »

  • Shifter says:

    04:53pm | 06/05/11

    Chive on! *waits for DAR* Read more »

 

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