About Me
- Name: Sagepaper
- Location: United States
An only child and service-brat, I was born in Panama. We lived on Indian Reservations when I was two to four-and-a-half -- crucial years for social development. Culturally, I am a mixed-up White Eyes from Mescalero. I began college at fifteen, enjoying a luxurious seven years of rigorous liberal arts education. Since graduating with a B.A. in Psychology, I have avidly read non-fiction, adding enormously to my formal education. Disabled by Tourette's Syndrome and other conditions, I live in Atlanta's suburbia. My father and husband are both physicians, and share a consulting business. (I am very proud of what they do, but I mention their occupations because people cannot seem to move to another small-talk topic if I simply say I am disabled. They must be told an occupation, and will start asking about family members to get one.)
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
Tourettes and Honesty
Honesty is one of the symptoms of Tourettes. It is a disorder ofIt should be noted that this does not prevent Tourettics from being reliable confidants. We can flag something in our minds as something not to be disclosed at all, or to certain people. However, it is impossible to classify everything as confidential. It is our own skeletons in the closet that we are apt to blurt out.
disinhibition. You are likely to blurt out the truth at anytime. It could happen
driving a car alone, or it could happen at a business cocktail party.
Given the risk of blurting out the truth, it behooves us to try to lead
exemplary lives. That way we don't blurt a truth that reflects ill on us, or
would be offensive to others. Not offending others is kind of hard, but at least
you can maintain a respectable reputation.
I have also on a few occasions blurted out something about someone else's skeletons, if they did not tell me not to tell others. That has improved with age. I tend to classify as secret anything I am uncertain about. Still, I get in trouble for blurting something someone wishes I hadn't blurted.
