fionagrahamwriter

Award-winning author & screenwriter Wrote & produced Irish feature film Songs for Amy. Comedy Fiction novel, The Chancer out now. #comedywriting #irishfiction

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@stabalo @THR It’s difficult if you can’t understand what I’m saying. To take offence is not to understand the condition. You have extreme views on something you clearly know nothing about. Look it up or watch the movie, whatever helps alleviate your stupidity.

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@dcwomenkicknass @deluluoptimist @Variety Oh dear God. He has apologised, profusely, across press direct to the studio and producers personally to reach the offended. He spends his whole life apologising. If you watch the movie, you’ll be the one apologising. John can’t help his situation but you choose to be this way.

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@ContrarianSaver @katrosenfield He’s got Tourette’s! It’s a condition. Look it up. If you can.

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@ContrarianSaver @katrosenfield That would be hilarious if it was meant to be funny. I don’t think in his documentary in the 1980s he was exaggerating the condition but you didn’t see that, or the movie. Maybe watch it and then have a wee think. If you can.

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It’s quite likely if he apologised on the night, it would have been full of more tics and given the sympathy and understanding he’s received so far, that wouldn’t have been a great idea. Either way, this constant insistence and moral posturing on giving an apology (which he’s done) for something out of his control is bullying.

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I don’t know anything about a microphone but tics are loud and of course it was going to happen, he’s got Tourette’s and the organisers informed the audience. He had several other tics throughout the night. Should he have been excluded? It’s an incredible film that will educate those that want to be educated but I’m not shilling it, I’m standing up for John.

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@1wingedeva @Variety That’s ridiculous - he can’t choose when and where his tics happen. Who would choose to be on the receiving end of all the abuse he’s endured after this. Watch the movie, it might alleviate your cynicism and help you understand.

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@notpopbase @Variety If you’re that unkind perhaps you should stay at home.

[fionagrahamwriter @fgrahamwriter]

To be offended is to not understand. I think ‘deeply mortified’ is definitely an apology but he shouldn’t have to apologise because it’s not deliberate and if you watch the film or his childhood documentary you’ll understand. He’s been living with this his entire life - it’s horrific. Of all places where he should have been shown compassion is at the event which was honouring the film explaining his life with Tourette’s. Everyone was warned so perhaps when he shouted anything out the response should have been, ‘glad you’re with us, John!’ Instead so many want to throw a man with a dreadful disability under the bus and exclude him in case he might offend someone.

[fionagrahamwriter @fgrahamwriter]

@IndieWire Learn what? That people with Tourette’s have outbursts and tics?

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Proud to see the country rally round one of its own. 💙 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It shows just how switched on this country is when it comes to Tourette’s, and that’s near enough entirely down to John himself.

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What about if he called a fat person fat or an old person old or just swore horribly at a young woman, or told someone with cancer they are going to die? Because these are all things that happen to people with Tourette’s - should he just ‘step out’ constantly? Or is just for certain groups?

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@KissMyGrits_22 @THR Of course the organisers knew - his film was about raising awareness. Please watch it and see how wrong you are.

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@jimmyalfred500 @THR Should he apologise for his disability - he said he was ‘deeply mortified’ I think that counts as an apology though.

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@gstreetblak @THR No he isn’t. He’s a man with Tourette’s. It’s not that deep.

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@wethepeopleeire @john_mcguirk Educate yourself and perhaps watch the film. Why would someone take away all opportunities to have meaningful relationships, a job, a normal life for a gimmick.

[fionagrahamwriter @fgrahamwriter]

Have you watched the film? Growing up in Scotland in the 80s we witnessed a documentary of John as a teenager- there was certainly a lot of humour amongst us school kids that he shouted out the most inappropriate thing at the most inappropriate time but the affliction is horrendous and the work John has done to raise awareness is incredible. The film of his journey is both heartbreaking and heroic. To take offence is to not understand. He’s a national treasure.