Savant Garde

someone who loves me listens to this podcast! someone who loves me gently shared that my fear of drinking bottled beverages that have been sitting at room temperature for 4 hours due to “contamination” and “bacteria cultures” sounds an awful lot like someone on a podcast he listens to! luckily i’ve learned maybe the reason i’m “like that” is OCD. in fact my therapist has suspected i might have OCD for several years now. my sister thought it was a “given” and a “known fact”. thank you for helping catch me up to speed.

Hey Jesse! The thing you mentioned last episode about making sounds/movements/words when you remember something embarrassing sounds a lot like Tourette Syndrome. It’s a disorder of the *voluntary* nervous system which can make it hard to tell if you’re doing it on purpose or not. People mostly think of TS as just shouting obscenities, but there’s actually all sorts of different tics you can have, including totally innocuous verbal stuff, twitching, etc. (A lot of things people think of as stimming are probably more in tic territory tbh.) Some people with TS can suppress their tics in public, and often it’s not a real problem so there’s no reason to get diagnosed (esp. if your tics aren’t super noticeable and/or gnarly in the first place). I haven’t run into trouble with mine since I was a kid, but even so, it’s been nice to be able to tell my neighbors if they hear me shouting “help me,” “stop it,” “I’m going to k*** myself,” or just generally shrieking, etc., that I’m actually normal and fine.

A podcast so good that I feel no desire to watch the shows, what would be the point without all of the cutting analysis? My journey here went: my friend-> Well There’s Your Problem-> Boonta Vista -> Savant Garde.

Good representation from Jesse, very poor representation from our boy Adrian. Shout out to Lucy also, you’re both so funny!