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To think this man at the cinema was plain nasty?

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WombatCat · 09/09/2013 23:57

Dh and I watched a film at the cinema on Saturday night.

There was a young man a few rows back from us with very vocal Tourette's. Obviously it was distracting to most people around him, but once the film started I didn't find it an issue. However, one man decided to tell him to shut up and "isn't there a special showing you could go to?"

Quite a few people appeared to be in agreement with him. I now wish I said something.

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KateSMumsnet · 10/09/2013 15:35

Hullo all,

Can we remind you all of our talk guidelines?

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KateSMumsnet · 10/09/2013 16:56

Us again,

We'd like to draw everyone's attention to our recent This Is My Child campaign.

In particular this quote, "I wish people would stop referring to Tourettes for added comic effect in trivial conversations. The reality is that Tourettes is heart-breaking." Gunznroses".

As ever, please report any posts that you think break our talk guidelines.

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KateSMumsnet · 10/09/2013 18:23

Hi Zaty

We removed your post as we felt your comment "someone who came in knowing they would be disturbing everyone" implies that the person with Tourettes was purposefully being disruptive, and that they wanted to disturb others, rather than their unconscious noises and tics being part of their syndrome. We have deleted your other post for repeating these sentiments.

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KateSMumsnet · 11/09/2013 14:37

We understand that tempers are running high, but troll hunting is still against our talk guidelines - if you have doubts about a poster, please do report them to us, and don't bring it up on the thread.

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RowanMumsnet · 12/09/2013 14:51

Hello

Many apologies (again) for taking a while to get this one; we've had a mountain of mail to deal with over the last couple of days.

We're going to go through the recent posts and reports now, but in the meantime we'd be grateful if you could remember our Talk Guidelines, particularly the bits about disablism and about personal attacks.

Thanks
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