#actuallytourettic

[cptn-mar]

Questions About Tourettes

Are hard to answer, because if you’re asking the general population of tourettics, the answer to most questions will be “sometimes, some people.”

Can you suppress?

Sometimes, some people can.

Do you tic in your sleep?

Sometimes, some people do.

Do you have swearing tics?

Sometimes, some people can.

Do you tic during intimacy?

Sometimes, some people do.

Do you want a cure for tourettes?

Sometimes, some people do.

TS is a spectrum!

[theatrekidenergy]

Having to lock yourself in your bedroom during an extreme tic attack so you don’t hurt anyone or yourself is a feeling I wish I never had to fucking experience. I fucking hate this. Why does my brain have to work like this. Fuck.

[theticcystudent]

Introduction!

Hi, my name is Finn. I'm a 20 year old enby who has autism and tourette syndrome. I am going to be attending university next year and I started this blog to document my experience in my studies!!

[tic-loud-tic-proud]

I feel like, even in the Tourette Syndrome community, us with coprolalia are outsiders. We're the "15%", we're the "stereotype", we're the "nobody with Tourettes actually has that". Tourette Syndrome is already such an isolating condition and having coprolalia can make it more so. Even when I've met people with tics IRL I've never met someone with copro.

To everyone with coprolalia/praxia reading this please know that just like everyone else with Tourettes you also should never need to suppress for other people. Your tics do not represent your thoughts or beliefs. Don't ever feel like a bad person for your tics. You're always welcome in the Tourettes community.

[boywithbear]

I don't think I've seen this Tourettes flag on here yet and I wanted to post it because it's my favorite one and one I (very rarely) see other people use as well. I definitely think it's the best made one and best one to represent us (in my opinion of course). It was made by a now deleted user on reddit. The teal represents the awareness ribbon and the jagged lightening bolt represents the tics. There is also a black version instead of yellow as well (I don't really see that one get used though).

[hiimholalate]

This is a threat 🔪

[touretteguy]

telling tourettic people and people with tic disorders our tics are “annoying” or “distracting” is extremely fucking shitty :)

[chthonic-pain]

hadn’t ticced in like 3 days but then this morning my choir director said that one of our speakers has Tourette’s (jury’s still out on whether that was ableist or not) and our tics went HI HELLO

barely managed to suppress them for the last three minutes of class and as soon as I was out of the building I was yelling TOURETTE’S at the sky lmao