What does having Tourette's feel like?!


Question: What does having Tourette's feel like?
I am doing a project about Tourette's. I want to know what it feels like to have Tourette's. What do you feel while you are having the tick? Do you know you are doing it while it's happening or is it something you realize after you do it? Are you embarrassed by it or are you proud to be unique? Do people stare at you or laugh at you because of it? If they do, how do you react? Thank You very much for sharing.

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Answers:

I have tourette's.
There are some tics that feel like a sensation of discomfort that you need to let out, like my neck cracking. It feels really uncomfortable and stiff if I don't do the tic. But a lot of my tics just kind of pop out, like i don't know they're coming and I have almost no control over them and I can't stop it unless I focus on not doing it.
I have this one tic where it's like I'm frowning over and over again and sometimes i don't realise I'm doing it. Same with quite a lot of my facial tics, except for ones like hard blinking and eye rolling, because obviously I can see that happening.
Sometimes I can sort of half tic, like instead of fully jerking my head to the side I might be able to just turn it slightly, but holding in tics is really tiring and they come out much worse later.
I get embarrassed about it sometimes, like when I let out a vocal tic in public, but I don't see it as a terrible thing. I like how I've met people through having tourette's and how I can help out other people with the disorder.
Sometimes people give me funny looks, or think it's funny, but I don't care much.

I have tourette's.



I did a project on tourettes too in college. A tick basically feels like a itch you cant scratch, so you end up just spazing out ridicules stuff.




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