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!






















