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I'm confuseddd

Can someone PLEASE explain what this is to me as I've just come across it.

I don't know if I'm just not understanding this like is this someone who's trans and has tourette's syndrome???

I'm so confused.

Could you maybe do tips for transtourettes?

Transtourette's tips!

☆♱🎧🫧pick up tics from media! Vocal or motor.

☆♱🎧🫧any stims you have that calm you down, turn them into tics!

☆♱🎧🫧join Tourette's communities. r/tourettes and discord servers are good places to start.

☆♱🎧🫧tic around other people and on your own

This is so true- the only thing that got me through my MRI was making songs in my head to the beat of the machine!

drs like "I believe you are suffering from Can't Stop Moving Syndrome, we will do a scan to check. please Stop Moving while we do the scan."

𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓶𝓮 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓭𝓾𝓬𝓮 𝓶𝔂𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯!

Hi!

My name online is Ray (she/they) , I'm from the UK.

I enjoy being in nature, playing the violin and a whole host of other things that i may well post about.

BOUNDARIES:

I have Derealization Disorder, so please refrain from mentioning "simulation theory" as this tends to worsen my symptoms.

I also have Tourette's syndrome so please do not purposefully trigger any of my tics (if you know what I have as tics) in my comment section!

Please just be generally respectful :)

DNI:

I don't have a full DNI yet, I may add to this.

Essentially don't be a d**k!

Headcannoning all of my favorite characters to have tourettes because I'm tired of not seeing representation in the shows and media I engage with.

Others with tourettes please send me your tic headcannons or good representation. I would love to see them 👀

Some of mine:

Travis Miles from Fallout 4, Eddie and Robin from Stranger Things, Theo and Fallon (they're both my characters but I adapted them from a seperate source), Deadpool, 2D from Gorillaz, Antisepticeye (Not the best, but he was one of the first characters I saw who did motor tics like me so I cling to it.), Doug Rattman from Portal, and both Tom and Edd from Eddsworld. :]

Evil tics want me dead (I've been doing the same annoying tic all week)

Tourettes are so silly until you're watching me spasm on the bed because the muscles in my right arm are screaming at me for laying down on it. Now I have to stretch. STRETCH! GET UP! STRETCH! APPLY PRESSURE! I DONT CARE IF THE ARM IS SORE BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY APPLIED PRESSURE! MORE!

And I have a sore arm so I can't rest now.

Or like when I was a kid, and one of my tics was that, whenever I tried to lay down, my body would force itself to sit up and stretch out my torso as much as possible making it really hard to sleep.

Oh. Or when I can't stop rolling my stomach even to the point where I start cramping from it and can't do anything but lay in my mom's lap and whine because it fucking hurts.

Oh yeah! Or when I can't stop rolling my shoulders and they begin to ache but again I can't fuckin stop.

These are some of my more extreme tics, but it... Genuinely baffles me how many people treat Tourettes as a joke because all they see is someone making random noises or movements.

Even on that note, do you think that's okay? To laugh at someone who's already embarrassed about something they can't control? Do you think I like snapping my neck to the side as hard as possible? Or clearing my throat over and over again, or having my entire face start ticking for a minute? I have had multiple people (yes multiple!) tell me, to my face, that they want Tourettes. Why??? So you can say curse words randomly and not get in trouble for it? Did you know only about 10% of people with Tourettes have Coprolalia? Or maybe it's so you can just feel different? Okay. Would you tell someone in a wheelchair you wish you couldn't walk? Because that's pretty shitty.

Anyways. I didn't mean to turn this into a whole rant. My arm just hurts right now, and I'm tired of trying to find some comradery from my community only to be met with some random dude laughing at a girl having a tic attack. Be nice to those who are different from you.

“Stop doing that”

Like, okay let me just turn my Tourettes off real quick??

the cool thing about working with animals is that I have one singular neurotypical colleague (as far as I know). and it’s become super obvious to me that the way autistic people relate to animals is fundamentally different to how allistics relate to animals. and the way people with ADHD relate to animals is fundamentally different to those without. 

(only one of my colleagues has Tourette’s and only two of us have OCD, so I don’t think that’s enough to make any grand sweeping statements). 

anyway. a real interaction between two of my colleagues today.

ADHD: Maggie won’t stop barking at me. I think she’s upset.

autistic: let me go talk to her. I can fix this. 

and that’s not uncommon? my autistic colleagues and I seem to talk to the animals to a much greater extent than anyone else. my ADHD colleagues and I seem to be the best at associating the correct name and breed and dietary requirements to the correct dog, which is weird, because I can’t do the same when it comes to humans.

I know that most people communicate with their animals but… it’s different in a way I can’t quite explain. the communication and connection seems so much deeper… I don’t know, it’s just wonderful. also, the fact that so many ND people work with me… that alone… indicates something.