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Originally Posted by Shasown

Pete has tourette syndrome while putting him in the house may have seemed to pander to the voyeur type viewer mentality his presence in the house did in fact highlight awareness of the syndrome, this was noticable by a marked increase in donations to not only specific tourette charities but also to general mental health charities.

You cannot compare Tourette syndrome to ADHD. If you knew anything about them (in real life not from what you read on the internet) you would know what you are saying is simply ridiculous.

Also, BB announced that Pete had Tourette Syndrome, including to the other HMs. Several Tourette charities were actually against Pete being in the house at the time - it was in the mainstream press for example! Using *highlighting awareness* is the oldest trick in the book for TV producers using certain people for entertainment - channel 4 and channel 5 do it all the time, including their poor excuses for so called documentaries about children with deformed limbs and drunk kids.

You don't raise awareness about mental illness or disability through using those people as entertainment in reality shows. If Channel 4 are serious about really raising awareness about Tourette syndrome why not have a news reader or serious presenter with Tourette syndrome?