I research Tourette’s – I Swear is an unflinching yet empathetic portrait of life with this condition

By Melina Malli, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford

I Swear is a biographical drama based on Scottish campaigner John Davidson’s experience of Tourette’s syndrome.

Spanning his teenage years to the present, it follows the first tics and their social fallout. It traces how Tourette’s syndrome – and the relationships and institutions around it – shape a life over decades.

Swearing forms part of Davidson’s experience — the film opens with an expletive-laden outburst at his MBE ceremony. But I Swear is careful to stress that

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