Rudeness Syndrome, Does It Excist?

[TheSuburbs]

I remember watching the film. P.S I love you a few years back and one of the characters said it.

Here is the conversation.

" Daniel Connelly: Sorry, I have a syndrome. I don't really have a filter. I don't pick up on social cues.

Holly Kennedy: You mean: you're rude.

Daniel Connelly: Yeah, but now it's a disease I can take medication for.
Holly Kennedy: They have pills for rudeness?

Daniel Connelly: I know. And they can't figure out the Middle East. Go figure. "

Does this Syndrome really exist?

[boxtops]

Isn't that Tourettes?

[jno]

the film was a comedy not an episode of House. The guy is trying to excuse - or rather not excuse - his rudeness.

Failing to pick up cues can be a symptom, eg of autism. But I don't think that was what the film was about, was it?

[NOX]

No rude people just haven't had enough smacks in the mouth to deter them from continuing to do it. Shame.

[andy-hughes]

No rudeness is what it always has been - the inability to adjust one's expression of a viewpoint to cater for the company in which it is expressed.

That coupled with the willingness to agree that the world at large will be a better place if such opinions are expressed at volume, and in a tone that brooks no argument.

[boxtops]

Ah, I see - no, just bad manners, people thinking that they are more important than anyone else.