(still from John's Not Mad, 1989)

neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks

All of us have fear of obscenities …er, er, angry curses rising in us , but we repress them, we inhibit them. In John, I think the er, it tends to leap over the bounds of inhibition. Generally there is disinhibition in tourettes, which can go all ways, which means the touretter FEELS too much, but also too much comes out of him as a sort of transparency.

The image of him holding his mouth so that things don’t burst out is very painful to see.