Talking Tourette’s

We live in a noisy world, where the demands on our time and attention from social media, culture, the press are myriad, even if much of it can feel like “sound and fury, signifying nothing” when stories often come and go quickly.

Yet the fallout from the recent British Academy Film Awards has stuck around. This star-studded annual event celebrates the best of the year’s big-screen films. The film expected to pick up multiple awards was Hamnet, a powerful depiction of grief loosely crafted around Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In one of the night’s biggest surprises, the Leading Actor award (and the Rising Star Award, the only one voted for by the public) didn’t go to anyone from that film, but to Robert Aramayo for playing Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson in I Swear.

I Swear is already available to watch on Netflix and is two hours of tough but joyful viewing that has the power to transform how you see those who have Tourette’s – but potentially also those who struggle with any sort of visible disability.