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Tourette's Awareness Month - Day 2: Keywords

Complex tic: when multiple muscle groups are used, multiple words (e.g., throwing something)

Premonitory urge: a very uncomfortable sensation (a build up of energy, electric/fiery/bubbling/tickling/crawling) that builds up before a tic. Not everyone experiences this and it doesn't happen before every tic.

Suppressing: the act of 'holding in' tics, often increasing the premonitory urge and making them worse later. Not everyone can suppress and it can only be done for so long. People may do it to avoid judgement, for safety.

Coprolalia: a socially inappropriate vocal tic (e.g., swearing, a slur)

Copropraxia: a socially inappropriate motor (physical) tic (e.g., 🖕)

Echolalia: vocally repeating other people's words or sounds, can also extend to animal sounds

Echopraxia: physically repeating others actions

Waxing: a period of increased frequency or intensity of tics, or a flare up

Waning: a period of decreased tic frequency/intensity

Tic attack: a highly intense period of constant, often intense, tics, completely uncontrollable and unstoppable

Trigger: something that sets off a person's tics or a particular tic

Dystonic tics: slower tics, abnormal posture or straining of a body part

Blocking tics: a tic which takes away a person's ability to move/speak

There are definitely more but these are a good handful!

i think one of the most annoying things about having a tic disorder is having to suppress the violent tics because you're not in a safe space to do them. Also when people tell you to do it against something soft. Like no, you don't get it they will only be soothed by slamming my fist so hard it brusies into a wall or myself. Pain is part of the tic. And it's really annoying.

Also because the really violent tics are the ones that are less frequent for me people forget that I do them and then it hurts and they're staring at me like I'm possessed.

I don't see people talk about this very often and I think we should talk about it more.

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i should start doing this thing i need to do

*tic attack*

what the fuck.

#this is about going to school and studying and also listening to alphonse #tics #tic attack

Much of the time I find the way that we’re told to manage tics very much prioritises others rather than the person with tics.

Oftentimes it’s about how to make us more palatable to those who don’t have tics, whether that is being in good humour and allowing them to laugh at us regardless of whether we are comfortable with that, locking ourselves up at home so people don’t have to see something “icky”, putting ourselves in the constant discomfort of suppressing tics for no reason but the fact that other people are ignorant.

Justifying ableism as “well what do you expect going out and yelling swear words?”. When my tics first developed my parents threatened to never let me leave the house, go to school or see friends saying that I have to “think of others”. It is always seen as my responsibility to educate and jump through hoops to be treated with basic decency. People make it very clear that their few seconds of discomfort are priority over my entire life.

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Worst fear about my meds came true

I had a hand tic while I was doing my medication injection (auto injector) and I pulled it out half way and it sprayed all over me. Im just glad I didn't hurt myself with the needle. It bled a bunch but it's fine.

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I have a pitch tomorrow and a major doctors appointment. But can I sleep? No, I've been waking up every 2 hours and then at 3am woke up feeling so incredibly nauseous and also started having a tic attack. Like, wtf???

I'm so sick of being chronically ill.

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Tics suck because my friends are downstairs playing D&D with my Dad and I'm here trying to sleep off a tic attack in my room alone surrounded by plushies so I don't accidentally hurt myself or others

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