Poor Tony. With how Howard treated Tony and called him a freak, it's no wonder Tony doesn',t like to advertise that he has Tourettes, even though it might make things easier on him in the long run. Then there's the sad fact that some people just get abandoned if they say they have Tourettes instead of others being understanding.
I love Rhodey, Pepper and Happy knowing and making Tony feel normal.
I love Peter knowing and though there is no doubt in my mind that Peter would have accepted Tony even without his experience with Ben helping him understand, I stillfeel the need to point out I really love the fact that Peter accepts Tony as is.
I hate Sam for calling Peter a freak. The kid is better than all of them. Sam is also being an asshole in general and he seems to have little interest at all in making up with Tony, considering he is a licensed psychologist and isn't trying to figure out whether there is something more about Tony's apparently aggressive behaviour. Shouldn't Sam have learned about Tourettes and be able to pick up patterns?
I am pleasantly surprised how nice the rest of the Avengers act and especially Clint surprised me. I am also very relieved that these Rogues seem to be different from their canon versions, who clearly blamed Tony for everything, never really apologized, bullied him, gaslighted him and used him as an ATM.
Steve being able to recognize that Siberia was bad without immediately putting all the blame on Tony (honestly, I blame Steve completely for Siberia and also the Civil War) is a nice surprise. It makes me hope that Tony can havehealthy friendships with them in the end (at least most of them).
Sam isn't a psychologist. It said in the movie that he works with veterans that have PTSD. He might be a counselor that specializes in PTSD, but to get that counseling degree is much less work and two years less of education than a degree to become a psychologist. A counselor can't diagnose things and would have limited knowledge about things that are outside of their specialty, so if his speciality is PTSD, he would have almost no knowledge of Tourettes aside from perhaps the same passing knowledge that everyone else does. An actual psychologist would have more knowledge of TS, but still not enough to recognize it necessarily unless they're a specialist. In the movies (aside from the very first one he appeared in), he seems like a jerk to me. I have not yet seen the TV series with him and Bucky, so maybe he's a little better there. He has always seemed like a jerk to me though, so I write him that way often, but not every time. Also, you can be a counselor (or psychologist) and still be a jerk ;)
Thanks for the explantion! Learned something new today. Sam is a bullying jerk in my eyes. To Tony, at least. Unfortunately, therapists and counselors can be jerks, like you said.
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