# What is your problem, Chronos? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519 "2025-11-03T03:41:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 140
**Author:** ![Xocomil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xocomil/32/14927_2.png) [@Xocomil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xocomil)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/140 "2025-11-16T02:43:54Z")
That you know someone with Tourette’s is irrelevant unless they had the symptoms described in the OP. Do they? I suspect not because you would have mentioned it were it the case. As far as what caused their condition, you don’t know. So you know someone with Tourette’s who doesn’t have the symptoms the other guy did and you don’t know what caused it. From that starting point you’re willing to make any conclusion? Why? > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > There was a recent thread where someone had an employee who claimed a TBI had resulted in him being unable to control his swearing. People were skeptical of this. **Stranger** called it patent bullshit that a brain injury could affect someone in this way. **Stranger** said: > [@Advice on dealing with cursing in the workplace](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-dealing-with-cursing-in-the-workplace/1024288/8): > > Bullshit. A TBI can certainly cause a broad number of behavioral regulation and inhibition issues (in addition to memory and genera cognition problems) but the notion that it can be localized to a specific part of the brain for regulating cursing is nonsense. In response to this: > [@Advice on dealing with cursing in the workplace](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-dealing-with-cursing-in-the-workplace/1024288/1): > > He then tells me that he had a TBI (traumatic brain injury) when he was younger and it damaged the part of his brain that regulates his ability to control it, and has documentation to prove it. How did you get Tourette’s from that description. Is it anything more than Tourette’s is the one condition you associate with cursing? Why does it have to be Tourette’s? You’re claiming that you know better than the person with the cursing disorder. That guy didn’t say a TBI gave him Tourette’s, he said it left him unable to control his swearing. The OP wasn’t asking if there was any way this could be described as Tourette’s. Yet, that’s the challenge you undertook completely unprompted. Why? Anyway here’s your husband’s response: > [@Advice on dealing with cursing in the workplace](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-dealing-with-cursing-in-the-workplace/1024288/24): > > He says it depends on the part of the brain that’s injured but it’s certainly plausible. If we frame aggression and impulse control issues on a spectrum, swearing would be something on the low end. So it’s possible this guy has a problem with low-level impulse control. Coprolalia shows up for roughly 10% of people with Tourette’s, and the tic doesn’t necessarily have to be randomly shouting swear words, it could also So I asked **Spouse Weasel** about this, since he’s a clinical psychologist who specializes in OCD and tic disorders (including Tourette’s.) He says it depends on the part of the brain that’s injured but it’s certainly plausible. If we frame aggression and impulse control issues on a spectrum, swearing would be something on the low end. So it’s possible this guy has a problem with low-level impulse control. Coprolalia shows up for roughly 10% of people with Tourette’s, and the tic doesn’t necessarily have to be randomly shouting swear words, it could also include inserting swear words into sentences that don’t need it. Obviously the usual disclaimers apply - he would need to be evaluated by an expert.. Obviously the usual disclaimers apply - he would need to be evaluated by an expert. If Tourette’s can consist of “inserting swear words into sentences that don’t need it,” well, golly, I guess this motherfucker has Tourette’s, too. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519)._