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I have a friend who has been displaying some odd, tourette/tic type behaviour.?
I have seen him do this thing with his hand, his neck and his fingers, which involves some sort of involuntary momements. I once saw him catch me looking at him when he was hidingly 'doing' one of these involuntary movements, and he looked pretty ambarrassed, almost ashamed.
How would you approach this sort of situation if it arose for you? Knowing that your friend has never talked about this in the many years that he has known you, and not knowing if he does or does not confide in someone else for his problems, would you ask him to open up to you, or would you let it be?
Would you be tempted to 'spy' on him to catch him doing this odd behaviour?
Would you ask anyone else if they have also noticed?
Would you defend him if one day he got teased about his tic behaviour?
Would you stay away from him, or be embarrassed to have him as a friend, in case he displayed his 'issues' for all to see?
Girls: would you be embarrassed or put off to be with such a person?
I would just like to hear open, candid opinions on how to deal with this kinda thing, cos I know the guy who has these prolems, but he is not a close friend as such, and neither is he part of our group of friends, but yeah I knew him quite well when we were kids and for sure he never had these tics when we were kids.
I have seen him do this thing with his hand, his neck and his fingers, which involves some sort of involuntary momements. I once saw him catch me looking at him when he was hidingly 'doing' one of these involuntary movements, and he looked pretty ambarrassed, almost ashamed.
How would you approach this sort of situation if it arose for you? Knowing that your friend has never talked about this in the many years that he has known you, and not knowing if he does or does not confide in someone else for his problems, would you ask him to open up to you, or would you let it be?
Would you be tempted to 'spy' on him to catch him doing this odd behaviour?
Would you ask anyone else if they have also noticed?
Would you defend him if one day he got teased about his tic behaviour?
Would you stay away from him, or be embarrassed to have him as a friend, in case he displayed his 'issues' for all to see?
Girls: would you be embarrassed or put off to be with such a person?
I would just like to hear open, candid opinions on how to deal with this kinda thing, cos I know the guy who has these prolems, but he is not a close friend as such, and neither is he part of our group of friends, but yeah I knew him quite well when we were kids and for sure he never had these tics when we were kids.