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I Swear I Can't Help It
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I Swear I Can't Help It

59 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Tourette syndrome gets a rare long-form look through two cases a generation apart. The film returns to John Davidson, the young Scotsman whose vocal and physical tics were first documented in the landmark BBC film John's Not Mad, checking in on how his life has unfolded since. Alongside him is fifteen-year-old Greg Storey, whose tics are severe enough to disrupt school, friendships, and daily routine, filmed at home and among family as they describe the exhaustion of a condition that never fully switches off. Interviews with both men and the people around them lay out what Tourette's actually looks and sounds like day to day, beyond the barking-and-swearing stereotype most viewers bring to it. The film treats the syndrome as a neurological condition rather than a behavioral quirk, and lets Davidson's decades of lived experience frame what Storey might be facing ahead. It is a plain, sympathetic record of two people managing a disorder that outsiders still largely misunderstand.