Got into another Tourettes fight

Look im a great guy. I am VERY well known around town. Mostly for my humor and for my humor regarding my condition. For example MY friend told me his GF for 4 years had herpes. So after asking if he had it etc etc etc I start "touretting" I have herpes, I have herpes" then I heard a meme about Jim Mcgreevey that former NJ governor saying her was a gay american. Today is I think the 10 year anniversary of that day. 

So all day ive been kinda yelling Im a gay American and I have herpes. So I went to the pharmacy to get my tourette pills and the girls behind the counter were laughing so hard they had to go in the back cause of the other customers. I find it fine with me cause I personally think its hilarious. And frankly if I got upset every time someone I knew made a comment or made fun out of me or even laughed I would be a miserable person. Im known around town as the Tourettes guy. Im treated like royalty around here. People love me. I make them laugh they give me free pizza. Wait on me first, get me the hell out of the store as quickly as possible lol. I talk to 10 people a day and dont even know who they are or remember where I knew them from. What im trying to say is I deal with my condition better than anyone who has this.

LAst week however was an incident. I doing my normal tics while doing my job at an Acme. Just normal screeches etc. When I was working in the aisle (in a vendor for a major snack food company) I noticed this older guy walking back and forth back and forth. He was from the meat room. Then I looked back at him. He proceeded to go in the meat room. Then I noticed the SOB was looking at me thru the window. His little meat room window. I just ignored it. The second time I ignored it also. Then the third time he stopped working to stare at me I ignored it yet AGAIN. 

Well that was the last time. If he looked at me again im gonna blow my top. And he did. I dropped my product on the floor and walked up to him. He came steaming out of the meat room and bumped my chest with his. I said why the F**k do you keep staring at me. He said WTF is wrong with you fu**ing retard. I said excuse me? If you havent figured out whats wrong with me then your the fu**ing retard. Quit staring at me you old piece of crap and go do your job and let me do mine. He then started to take off his meat cutter apron and said lets just go outside and ill whoop your ass. I stopped turned around and said are you seriously threatening to kick my ass over and obvious disability? He was like I dont give a shit what your disability is you are annoying me. 

I quickly remembred how I almost got into serious trouble for beating the crap out of that other guy so I simply said, put your apron on-walk back into the meat room-or there is going to be a major issue and you are gonna have serious trouble. He then told me to get the F**k out of his store. I went to the store mgr who knew of me and told her what happened. long story a little shoter they are reviewing the video albiet without sound and that man may lose his job or be suspended up to two weeks. 

I went back to finish doing my aisle and as I was walking down to exit the store a young man with Down Syndrome said Hi to me. Made me think to myself that if this kid who is working for Acme can do his job without issue why should I? Im not going to push the issue because I may have scratched my balls a few time and may have picked my nose once or twice as they will see on camera but I feel this guy should be fired. Im a 6-1 230 lb guy and would be beat the ever loving crap out of him if I chose to. But remembering how lucky I got a few years ago stopped me from doing it again. 

When it's all said and done, it's not worth the headache of getting arrested for assault and taking a day off from work to go to court.  

Nothing good would have come out of it except for temporary satisfaction for giving him a molly-whooping.  

The guy needs sensitivity training.  10 times out of 10 it doesn't work, but no one likes to sit through that sh!t.  Suggest it to the store manager as his punishment.  The man shouldn't lose his job; he still needs to eat!  

We live in a world with certain groups of people that are so angry and emotional and lack the ability or make the choice to never look within and instead scapegoat every possible human being that is different than them for why their life sucks. 

It has become a part of American culture for certain people to hate people with differences and rally and support anyone that is against someone else that is different. 

I once was evaluating a teenaged boy that was deemed as having an anger problem and was antisocial.  So I read his file and he has Tourette's.  So I go and observe him with his peers and he is actually a cool guy, engages his peers appropriately, is able to be social. 

But then the tics start.  He not only had the yelps but he had this thing that looked like he was gasping trying to sneeze. 

I can tell he's trying his best to maintain but they are involuntary.  So the comments start and the "wtf is wrong with you?" Vibe.  Which as he starts to feel judged and his peers start turning on him the tics get worse and harder for him to maintain.  

Which in turn results in the peers telling him to "stop it" and "be normal".  And he sits there trying the best he can but the peers attacking him and mind you these peers had problems of their own and were being evaluated also.  Until he finally goes off cussing up a storm at everyone but it's obvious that the problem is not him.  It's the ingrained attitude to focus and pick on those with differences especially with these peers that had so much to work on personally.  It's easier to blame and scape goat this kid for their actions than it is for them to look at themselves and improve themselves. 

The thing I saw tho was how alone this kid was. No back up, no safety in numbers, no one helping him. The culture of focusing on someone with differences as a problem Or their problem rather than focusing on their own problems is a rampant in America as seen in your story. 

The issue is not disability and differences, the issue is the culture of America

I feel for people like this in your story.  Kids can also be so cruel.  I was fortunate to never had a bully situation escalate.  It's horrible hear about cases like this kid but it's also the reality.  I think you're right and I can agree that it is part of our culture.