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Tim Ferguson Character Analysis

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Tim Ferguson, Australian comedian, author, and star of the nineties comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars, publically revealed in 2012 that he suffers from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (Franks, 2014). He first noticed symptoms when he was around 18 years old but chose to ignore them as a temporary product of his lifestyle (Gearin, 2012). After several episodes of paralysis and numbness, also known as paresthesias (Baquis & Shenoy, 2014), on his left side (Ferguson, 2013) he was diagnosed with MS in 1995 (Franks, 2014). Mr Ferguson is one of an estimated 0.1% of the Australian population with MS and one of 46% of Autralians with MS who require some form of mobility assistance (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). MS is thought to be caused

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