Yeah, they give the following factors that excluded a diagnosis of Tourette's: > (i) onset was abrupt instead of slow, > (ii) symptoms constantly deter

Yeah, they give the following factors that excluded a diagnosis of Tourette's: > (i) onset was abrupt instead of slow, > (ii) symptoms constantly deteriorated instead of typical waxing and waning of tics, > (iii) “simple” movements (e.g. eye blinking) and noises (e.g. clearing one’s throat) were clearly in the background or completely absent, although being the most common and typical symptoms in Tourette syndrome, > (iv) movements were mainly complex and stereotyped and predominantly located at arms and body, instead of at eyes and face, > (v) overall, the number of different movements, noises, and words was “countless” and far beyond the typical number of tics in Tourette syndrome, and > (vi) premonitory feelings were reported with atypical location, quality, and duration compared to tics in Tourette syndrome. Tourette's has fairly specific features. It's not a generic "behaving weirdly/antisocially and moving in funny ways" thing. Sorry to hear about your coprolalia. That sounds tough to cope with. It's annoying that it gets treated as synonymous with Tourette's in the media when it affects something like 10% of patients. Did it improve with adulthood? I grew out of the worst of my symptoms in my 20s as many do (diagnosed 30 years ago, some vocal tics but never coprolalia).