Here’s my tongue!

Now, I have never been in the habit of going up to other people and sticking my tongue out at them. Do you do it, would you do it? Well, the answer to this question would probably (and most likely) be a resounding NO! I mean, it is not the most appropriate or acceptable activity to show off — certainly not a ‘skill’ to show all your friends!

I grew up within a Roman Catholic family where we all held certain attitudes that these behaviours were both rude and uncouth; in much the same way that showing off your naked parts of your body would be totally taboo. Children do it and yes, it can be funny — a part of childhood that really stays there and does not acceptably follow you into adulthood anyway; well I thought so.

A few years after marrying the one woman in my life that had so many loving attributes about her, I never expected to be in a position whereby I would reduce myself to embarrassing her in this type of way; or anyone else for that matter. I had been on medication at that point called Thioridazine (commonly branded as Melleril.) The Melleril licence was later withdrawn and the product removed from prescription use later in 2005. A few weeks after started taking this licenced product I began uncontrollably sticking my tongue out at her, progressing to the point where I would be doing this for the whole day. My sleep became disturbed because I could not relax enough to sleep —…