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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.

I don't enjoy ticking, but I especially don't enjoy how my tics seem to especially get bad when someone is leaning on me. Like, oh, your friend is using your arm as a pillow? You are now suddenly very aware of that arm and need to move it around. Then I feel bad and feel like I have to apologize for jostling them when I know I can't help it, and they also know and hghhh. It's the worst.

Literally. I’ve had a friend ask “do you think you’d have as many friends if you didn’t have Tourette’s?” And it really got me thinking. I realized, no, I wouldn’t, people think I’m funny because of my disability. “Oooo, what is he gonna say next?!” No. Focus on me and not my disability. I am not my disability.

Starting to realise that theirs people that only enjoy my company for the tourettic comedic relief...

something happened and im really sad and also happy.

happy chinese new year to all, but YOU GOTTA READ THIS.

for more than a year (3 yrs almost), i’ve done a self diagnosis on myself with spd (sensory processing disorder) and adhd (few others too)

the man took an hour late to arrive but LOL

went to this place and told the man about how i’ve been bullied and what was going on. so i obviously didn’t say i was gay but my mom did bring up how somebody was gay and was bullying me as a gay person (smart man knew i was gay from how I went 😝✌️ along with saying the word “gay” but he didn’t make it obvious until my mom looked away and he smiled and mouthed “yes good im proud for you”).

since i get extremely uncomfortable when they kept talking about my ASD so then i felt like crying cause yk mental health issues + illnesses, etc shit being exposed and almost cried (they never knew bc i never made it obvious but my eyes watered under my hoodie), and yk I felt really really sad than my mood was today.

THEN THE BIG NEWS CAME.

since you never knew i was neurodivergent, i’m gonna let you know.

i didn’t know HALF of what he said because he spoke fast but

i managed to catch half (idk if half atp cause he got LOADS of diagnosis for me but it was too much and he spoke really really fast)

HE WAS FRIENDLY BUT

i FUCKING KNEW. that the spd was right. I WASNT SURE BUT HE SAID I HAVE IT. YESSS A REAL DIAGNOSIS.

he said im diagnosed with asd, adhd, spd (sensory processing disorder), tics (not like tourettes but he did say something WILL cause me to tic but it’s only anxiety that will cause it a few times but if it gets worse, i must tell him) + my anxiety will cause me to tic (like shivering and form different tics but its not like tourettes that people ACTUALLY have).

he also said my auditory sensory processing disorder as well (+ with sensory processing too), he said i had something sensitivity (idk what it was because he spoke REALLY fast) but i think he said sensory or sensitivity disorder (if you knew what it’s called, PLEASE lemme know).

stuttering disorder + high functioning on asd + low functioning on adhd (lemme know if functioning is out of date or not) and some other stuff.

BUT I GOT AN OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS GUYSSSSS

i’ve tried to find the “congratulations on the neurodivergency cake” but I found this.

congratulations to me on my further neurodivergent diagnosis :))

Is it normal to have a paralyzing tic where your whole body goes limp it last a few seconds to a a few minutes and I'm conscious during it or should I search into it?

Tics and Tourettes Basic Symptoms and Terminology- An Introduction

What are tics? 

Tics are sudden, recurrent, and meaningless motor movements or vocalizations

Tics are either Simple or Complex. 

Simple tics MOTOR (movement) tics: brief, meaningless movements, such as; eyes blinking, eye movements, grimacing, head jerks, or shoulder jerks.

Complex Motor Tics: slower, longer, more purposeful movements, rarely seen in the absence of motor tics. Ex) touching objects/people or oneself, dystonic movements, obscene gestures (copropraxia). 

Simple Vocal Tics: sudden, meaningless sounds or noises Ex) barking, sniffing, throat clearing, grunting. 

Complex Vocal Tics: includes utterance of syllables, words, phrases, or statements, odd patterns of speech, ecophenomenon, or obscene, inappropriate and suggestive statements (coprolalia).

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When you're nervous about ticcing in public but being nervous makes your tics worse so you tic more which makes you more nervous and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

ok but something ive never heard anybody talk abt ever and they should

tourettes omo

or at least tics, i understand why it may be a touchy subject bc awareness and stuff but like as someone with tourettes can i just say

i get bladder tics

and theyre luckily on the rarer side but like, it is literally ill just be doing stuff and then essentially suddenly either actually just wetting myself, or so ungodly close to it as im fighting the waves of desperation accompanying the muscle spasms and its

actually crazy

but like could you imagine your fc who has ts or some other tic syndrome (ts au ? medication ? idk man) and theyre hanging out with friends just doing whatever or something like that, and basically they just start wetting themselves out of nowhere, leading to prying questions (good naturedly or not) about why they didnt go if they had to that badly

maybe theyre peeshy and this kind of thing is semi normal already; or they arent, and they then have to delve into explanations on the fact that either they didnt know/didnt have to go, met with varying degrees of belief, or that they did know, but they also were certain it wasnt near close to bad enough to have an accident yet, and maybe through rambling even admitting straight up that they literally just pissed themselves regardless of need.

or if they didnt even wet fully, anywhere from a rather messy leak that they cant hide, similar to above; to one thats smaller and less obvious, but maybe they freeze up in a really conspicuous way, still bringing attention to themselves, and maybe they suck at playing it off, or just have really pushy/concerned friends, or both, so they end up still having to admit to just having peed themselves a little, despite there being no immediately visble/no visible damage, and then try to explain that they arent in desperate need of a bathroom despite that

or maybe they are. maybe now their body is confused and theyre teetering on the edge of a full accident all of a sudden. and of course theres the constant worry nagging in the back of their head that theyll tic again and lose it the rest of the way, but also trying not to think about it for fear that focusing on it too much will make it happen, which is an entirely real possibility

not to mention any tics that arent actually their bladder, but help just as little, for instance, i get vocal tics but they arent often real words, so like,, invlountary whines and groans that have nothing to do with anything but sound so desperate, paired with jerky/restless movements that arent a real potty dance but at this point only the one ticking themselves can tell the difference; which doesnt matter much in the end anyway, as theres still a real chance theyll wet regardless

or someone who is actually rather desperate, and theyre trying to play it off for one reason or another, but despite their control in terms of potty dancing, they continually lose focus on their tics, which eventually simulate the same thing, and they keep drawing attention to themselves anyway

the absolute confusion and misdirection it causes for everyone else because no one can ever tell when they actually have to go, and eventually they learn that it doesnt really matter if their bladder isnt already completely empty (which only really lasts for like 5 min after using the bathroom if that, so)

I started having I don't know, tics? Earlier. And, looking back I've had them for a while, just not as bad as today. I started spasming, twitching, aggressively throwing my head back and forth. I've been having them on and off for like 4, almost 5 hours. When one is happening I feel like I can't control my own body and I can't breathe. I also feel like I'm faking because it's my body and how could I not be able to control it. I don't know what to do, no one I know knows what to do. I'm tired and freaking out, so if anyone has any ideas on what I can do or even words of comfort that would be nice, but if not that's alright

//: LMFAOOOO APPARENTLY I CANT WATCH ‘LE PETIT TOURETTE’ BECAUSE ITS TRIGGERING MY TICS LIKE CRAZY

//: ANd I REALY WANTEd TO WATCH THIS ONE 😭😭

//: fuck it we ball