This is an odd one . I’m not usually prone to doing this , but lately I’ve been speaking out loud to myself . It’s peppered with strong swear words. I’m not talking to a voice in my head or outside of my head . I’m not particularly stressed so can’t use that as an explanation .
Tourette’s ? 
Can you develop that at the age of 62 ?
No idea about that.
I do a similar thing when overthinking things. I think it’s a left over from my central voice/thought that comments on what i do if that makes sense. I usually start to think negatively and I verbalize that. It’s usually swearing and derogatory on my person. ie I call myself names.
Talking to oneself can be a symptom of sz. I’d say it’s in the ballpark if a little unusual.
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The swearing is definitely aimed at myself .
I had a period of tourette’s-esque behavior when I was really psychotic years back. The voices used to instruct me to make signs with my hands, the most common one is the right hand, touching your thumb to your index finger tip to make a circle then extending your other three right fingers out, kind of an a-okay sign. I would do this randomly, and sometimes my body felt willed to do it against my will.
I also have said a few things when the voice was “speaking through me.” It’s not tourette’s but it was similar in a lot of regards. I barked something dirty to myself once in the backyard only to turn my head and find my neighbor staring at me from the backyard, she was calling for her dogs to come back in, I was so embarrassed. Glad those days are behind me. I don’t get the ticks anymore like I’ve described, though sometimes my hand will make that sign if I’m really upset. I still don’t understand it.
I would bring it up with your doctor @firemonkey.
This doesn’t seem normal.
I wouldnt worry about it - when im hearing voices on my own in the flat, i used to swear loudly like a bloody trooper - even freaked out the neighbours until i explained. Someone phoned the police one day, cos they thought i was murdering someone lol.
Absolutely polite when outside of course.
Edit = Sorry read your post properly, sure nothings been frustrating you lately, putting you in a bad mood? I think its healthy to vent sometimes anyway.
There’s nothing I can easily think of . So far no swearing with company .
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F***! F***!F***!S***! Hahahaha
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I’m one of the worlds top gangstas. Known throughout all the lands, people recount the tales of me.
I have Tourette’s. It’s nothing like that. Tourettic vocalizations are mostly nonsense sounds or gums or something. The idea of random, uncontrollable swears is a stereotype. And most of Tourette’s is just tics, like twitching or flapping.
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It’s not a stereotype, it’s just a rare manifestation, people having vocal tics of intelligible words, including curse words.
Yeah, that’s true. Some people do swear. It’s just not as common as people think, and there are other, much more common symptoms.
My personal knowledge of it is restricted to meeting a friend of a girl I knew who had tourettes. His speech was interspersed with a tic? that involved him jerking his head to sniff his arm and then jerking it back again.
It is a stereotype. A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
I did a little research and found that only 10% of people with Tourette’s syndrome blurt out swear words, but there is a widely held belief that all people with Tourette’s syndrome blurt out swear words.
Some call it swearing, I call it honesty.
Although occurring in a relatively small % of people with Tourette’s is the Tourette’s more severe in those who do involuntarily swear ?
My eldest son has tourettes. He has sort of typical tics not swearing. He has learned to control it sometimes