Filipino Tourettes: The inability to stop saying the truth/your opinion about situations even when it may be contrary to your best interests...

It has recently come to my attention that the heads of the Maghanoy clan Ma and Pa Maghanoy have infiltrated the blog, I figured this out when my Mom used the word "crapartment", a terminology that Maghanoy.com is defenitely going to have to patent. So... now is the time when we pay tribute to my GAD and BWM...

GAD - Grumpy Asian Dad, my Dad is the original, you'll never catch him Chhimi
BWM - Bossy White Mom, my Mom perfects the art of "directing" people, Arnold says I'm getting close to achieving her glory, but I'm not sure, it might be unreachable...

For the record Arnold is SCH - Spacey Colombian Husband

but I digress...

to fully understand the condition of Filipino Tourettes from which I suffer one has to understand the conditions in which it is formed... additionally although Filipino Tourettes is disproportionately found in the Filipino communities it is not a disease that discriminates...

Setting the stage for Filipino Tourettes

1) BWM - My mother is very honest. I don't mean like "No I didn't kill that man honest" I mean "No my child is 11, not 10, so please charge us the full price honest" As a result of this I not only have an aversion to lying, but when I do attempt the feat I am terrible at it, like Pinocchio obvious. I mean I should just take out a marker and write "Guilty on my forehead" because it would be better than the faces and stammering... My youngest brother escaped the honesty gene, as a child he was practically a pathological liar. Also my Mom likes to give her opinion about things, a trait that I've also seemed to inherit.

2)GAD - Like my Grandma, my Dad is almost totally incapable of not saying what he is thinking. Unlike my Grandma he cannot blame this on being over 80. The minute something pops into his head he lets it out his mouth...

" Honey I can't talk any longer, I have to go eat peanuts" - a phone conversation with me

"My God you are old" - Happy Birthday message, imagine him saying this with the shock of realization, not a teasing voice...

"Why the hell don't you have more parking! It's ridiculous" - to an innocent hostess at a strip mall restaurant, where incidentally parking was plentiful, there just weren't any spots in the first two rows

"I don't like you" - response to my BWM parking poorly (don't feel sorry for her, she can hold her own)

So there you go, the perfect conditions for developing Filipino Tourettes a condition which luckily my current supervisor finds extremely amusing, lucky thing since Filipino Tourettes can be almost like a disability under restrictive professional situations.