tourettes, necropalsy, leprosy, austism.... i am learning a lot

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After going out for a little date with hubby last night, we went home around 10 eve and we actually didn't feel like sleeping right away. So we end up watching National Geographic and i am glad i did watched it. The episode on taboo last night was about people with tourettes, necropalsy and leprosy.. it was a humbling experience watching it. The people who shared their experiences who have those disorders were heartbreaking, to think that they did not ask for these disorders and yet they are able to live their lives, though people do not treat them as normal and find them taboo...yet they were able to share last night how normal they are and how much they want to be treated as normal. As someone who is "normal" i really find it humbling as sometimes i always complain and yet here are people who are going through life and having struggles more than i do. It was also education for me especially on the part on necropalsy, the guy would end up sleeping no matter what he do, even if he is eating he ends up asleep and it is something he cannot control and somehow he was able to laugh at this as he knows it is his life and cannot do something about it.. but he said he misses making love as of course he cannot do that too as he ends up sleeping in the middle of..and for those with leprosy, it was heartbreaking to see them being shut away from the normal society as people who do not have leprosy are scared to mingle with them since they are scared to have leprosy too.. but from the episode last night it was said that one cannot acquire it that easily unless you are with that person always. There are also those who are cured but they end up still shut away from the society which is sad.. and the last part of the segment also featured the autistic people or people who have autism. I love the part where they were able to communicate through computers, they were able to say what they want to say and their thoughts came out through encoding it.. it was really wonderful. it was really that educational for me. anybody watched it? i totally love watching it as it was really educational.