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Originally posted by Warmtoe
You know, it is just possible that despite all of his problems, Pete is actually not a nice person.
He has an enormous advantage over the others with the PC public - anything anti-social that he does can be excused as part of his disorder.
Worse than that, anything anti-social that he does will reinforce just how brave he was in the first place to come on the show.
As a watching nation, it is our duty to try to see through the tourettes to the Pete underneath and, if he is being a git, to vote with our feet!
He will of course win, hands down.
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True, having a disorder does not mean you're a nice person, and it doesn't mean you should be allowed to do whatever you want.
But so far, Pete has been a rather nice bloke, overall. He's been interacting with various members of the group, and seems rather gregarious. He's been better behaved than some of the members without neurological disorders, like Shahbaz for example.
Also, in no shape or form has he
tried to get sympathy votes. Remember Nadia from BB5? Always whinging about how
hard things were for her as a transexual, how it would mean
so much to her if she were to win?
Pete, on the other hand, has done no such thing. Granted, it's early days, but he doesn't seem to act like someone who's going to go into the diary room and beg for the sympathy vote.
All I'm saying is that no, you shouldn't chalk up everything he does wrong to his tourettes, but you shouldn't write him off as having nothing going for him but the sympathy vote.