Just sat watching the Theroux doc from behind my dressing gown hood and my boyfriend was watching from behind a cushion like it was an actual horror film
I’m dealing with a family emergency, so I won’t be doing broadcast interviews on the John Davidson Tourette’s tic at the BAFTAs story.
Hearing the N word shouted at two of the most successful black actors in the world, on stage at the BAFTAs and broadcast on the BBC, was horrible. It made people uncomfortable. It should have. But it was an involuntary tic from someone who lives with Tourette’s syndrome. It was not chosen. It was not intentional. It was not an expression of belief.
What’s astonishing is watching people who constantly lecture the public about inclusion suddenly abandon it the moment it becomes complicated. The same voices that demand respect for lived experience are now acting as if a neurodivergent man consciously decided to shout a slur for sport.
Tourette’s is a neurological condition. It is not a political statement. It is not a moral failing. You cannot preach DEI and then punish someone for symptoms of their neurodivergence.
Even the Royal Household has previously understood Davidson’s condition. Not even the late Queen was immune to his tics he said “F*ck the Queen” TO HER FACE. If that reality can be accepted there, it should not be beyond the rest of us.
Two things can be true at once. The word is abhorrent. The tic was involuntary. If your commitment to inclusion collapses when it involves neurodivergence, then it was never inclusion in the first place.
Unfortunately putting my phone in another room after 9pm and reading books instead of doomscrolling has severely benefited my mental health and my sleep cycle
idk who needs to hear this but january is all about rest and hibernation. february is all about self-romance and love. march is when we prepare for the new year and april is when we spring into big action.
@itsdeaann you can hate Charlie Kirk’s politics and still call his assassination evil. If you’re cheering this on, you’re not anti-violence, you’re just proving you were never about peace to begin with.
Yoh saw a TikTok where the lady was reciting her vows and she said “sometimes I feel like my heart is safer in your hands than it is in my body,that’s how natural your love feels” and I just - 🥹