Sleep or Swear

Have a bad case of Tourette's

• Narcolepsy causes sudden, uncontrollable sleep in genuinely dangerous situations — cooking, swimming, or crossing the street — that Tourette's does not
• Medications can meaningfully reduce Tourette's symptoms; extreme narcolepsy has no cure and cannot be safely managed away
• The helplessness of narcolepsy — no warning, no ability to resist onset — is a distinct and ongoing burden beyond the physical dangers it creates