Jalen Rose circles the net with Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf on being diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, social justice and his seemingly never-ending basketball career.
). But he was driven not just by hunger and a desire to be great, but by a physical condition that went misdiagnosed for much of his youth.
“Trying to hide what is almost impossible to hide because … children are brutal. They are call you names,” he said. “I was always taught to be respectful and kind, but even extra when you have people that could see your condition. You have to make sure that, even more so, you’re the kindest.” “But I think one of the things I was blessed to have to my advantage, I was great at sports.” A fan of Dr. J and Isiah Thomas, he gravitated toward hoops.He was finally diagnosed in the 11th grade: It was Tourette syndrome,he described as: “your body and your mind are on different wavelengths.” At the time, there weren’t any athletes or celebrities raising awareness. He’d later become that voice. But he understood that he had to change his perception of his disorder.
“[God’s] aim is not to demoralize and to dehumanize you,” he said. “[God’s] trying to teach me something, trying to elevate me, you know? And so as a young boy, that’s the way I began to look at it.”Getty Images for BIG3“I began to see that actually Tourettes, yeah it’s tough. Life is tough … [but it] has elevated me in ways in basketball and even just as a human because it makes you more sensitive, empathetic and sympathetic to what people go through,” he said.
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