Tourette Culture is...

Made by @meowticta, feel free to submit posts/asks, they are always open.    @ticsculture for the secondary blog with more admins!

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Welcome.

Hi and welcome to this new blog! This is run by @meowticta

You can send questions about Tourette’s, or submit posts with the ‘’Tourette’s culture is...’’ thing, or send submissions via DMs.

Self diagnosed, undiagnosed, profesionally diagnosed tourettics, or you have any other tic disorders, disorders that can cause tics, etc, you are safe here, this is your place!

This is also an tic-disorder-culture-is, so people with CMTD (Chronic motor tic disorder) Chronic vocal tic disorder, or transient/provisional tic disorder are also welcomed here.

A little bit about me, there is currently one admin in THIS account. you can call me Mai, I'm a minor! and I use any pronouns.

(I'm not the best at giving advice, I'm going to tell you what helped me or others/what I experience, so please keep that in mind, I'm just a teenager trying to make safe space)

This blog was inspired by the @/adhd-culture-is

There will be probably daily posts, 0 to 3 posts.

Also, be careful with triggering content such as:

-Ableism

-Self-harm (for self-harm tics)

-Negative posts

etc.

You can vent here, this is a safe place for you to talk about your tics, but please tag them with #vent

Rules on submitting:

-Your post has to begin with ‘’Tic disorder culture is...’’ ‘’Tourette’s syndrome culture is...’’ ‘’Tourette culture is...’’ You can add things like ‘’LGBT Tourettic culture is...’’ ‘’’Disabled and Tourette culture is...’’

-You can now submit things like ‘’[Character] Has Tourette’s/A tic disorder’’ Aka, headcanons or canon! (You can add things like ‘’And has a coughing tic/sniffing tic’’)

-Credits to those ‘’make up a ---’’ accounts, now you can submit things like

‘‘Tourettic who loves cooking but can’t do it because of their tics’‘

‘‘Tourettic who loves their tourettic partner’‘

-You can now submit your funny tics, funny anecdotes or memes you made!

-Any kind of discourse is no allowed here, this is just for fun.

Search.

You can search this for only ‘’culture is’’

’’tourette’s culture’’

’’tic culture’’

’’tic disorder culture’’

You can search this for only ‘’tourettic who...’’

’’make up a tourettic’’

‘‘make up a ticcer’‘

For memes

"memes" "meme"

For headcanons

"headcanon"

For questions

"question of the day"

For answers of question of the day

‘‘answer of the day’‘

DNI:

-Basic criteria.

-Radfems.

-ED/SH blog (please stop interacting with me)

-Transmeds.

-Anti-self diagnosis.

If you want to meet the other admin/s check out @ticsculture !!! It's a group blog (because I didn't know how to share this one acc) :]

and that’s pretty much it, send those submissions!

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Answering yesterday QOTD I wish people knew that it was involuntary. You think that would be obvious but NOOO

!!!

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QOTD:

Is there anything you wish people knew about tics/tic disorders?

[mothicalspoken]

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QOTD:

What's your experience with being a disabled person with Tourette's? Do you consider yourself disabled because of your Tourette's?

How do you live with it? How do you struggle? How have you come to accept it, even if not love it.

For example, this is my story.

I remember when I was younger, tics were very debilitating, I had many tic attacks at school AND when I got home, I had coprolalia and copropraxia, at the very age of 11-10,

I couldn't write, nor draw, nor concentrate in class because I was too busy trying to suppress my tics, which was almost impossible, I would hit myself, I would whistle, violently shake my head to the side, to the point of bones cracking, and punch my thigh, and somehow, people, teachers, didn't notice, only my friends, I remember one time they laughed at me, and I never could took that off my mind ever, I hit myself with the bookshelf behind me, after copying what my friend said, and it was embarrasing, it was always embarrasing, and scary, imagine you're a 11 year old teen trying to figure it out WHY does your body did not listen to you, to what you wanted to do, why couldn't you control yourself.

Why did my mouth say or did weird things,

Why was I so weird.

And people did not believe me, even though I struggled, and struggled so much, I would cry every night because my body was exhausted, tired is not enough, my body would ache and ache, after and even when I did not have a tic attack.

Tic attacks are... terrible, and it feels like I'm exaggerating it, but it is horrible, is tics non-stop, swear words, ugly gestures, tired body, aching head, at least for me. Trying to hide from my mom, because she always thought it was a ''bad habit''.

So I grew up scared, and sensitive and insecure about it, people, a neurologist thought I was faking it, and every time someone looks at me in the way she looked at me, it makes me think, ''they think I fake it'', and I grew up thinking that I was doing that, until I was 13 and told my psychiatrist with a big fear of her not believing me, I was scared, and with help of a friend, I told her.

The diagnosis was on, and I never accepted it, I still can't accept it sometimes, but it has gone better,

and then I see people saying they're proud of their Tourette's, of their disability, that they love themselves, ''How could they be proud? ''How could I be proud of a condition that has been hurting me for so long?''

But I want to love my body and my brain, how it is, I don't need to change it, even if I can't do things sometimes, even if I take longer to do stuff, I'm worthy either way, even if sometimes I can't do those things other people can.

I lived to long on fear, disgust and insecurity.

And it's time to simply just try and accept what I have.

Because I will not live like that again.

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QOTD:

What is an common experience when you have tics?

As in: for example,

Hitting people out of nowhere.

Being scared by your own tics.

Etc.

[tics-tacs]

Hi! Can tics be limbs not working, like writing and your arm goes limp etc.?

I've never heard of this before, but it would definitely make sense. Especially if you have other tics besides this one.

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I've heard Reddit calls them ''blocking tics''

Here's a post about it!

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Sonic has Tourette’s trust me bro

you're right, i believe you

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!!! Okay I’ve got some positivity- I go to a summer camp at a community center and there’s this one counselor who brings in Nintendo switches. Usually I don’t play handheld video games because if I get too excited my tics flare up and I end up throwing the controller, but the joycons he brought have a wrist strap attachment!!! And now I don’t have to worry about accidentally throwing or breaking this dude’s switch!!! It’s so nice omg

That's really great! :]

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Asks are always open so if you need to vent, want to tell a story, share a funny tic, anything, you are free to do so!

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You're back! I wondered where you went :')

Hii!! Lots of things happened and I didn't had the energy to reply or even post stuff here, so I went inactive, but I'm back !!

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Alright y'all, I made a secondary blog to have a group blog (to let more people active on this acc)!! So if you any of you wants to be admin on that one, lmk and dm me!

I didn't know how to share an account here so yeah, I made another blog lol

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i hate having unread dms so sorry if i answer to you guys after literal years

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QOTD:

Tell me something wholesome related to your tics! May be an experience with someone, an unique tic, etc.

[disapunk]

Shoutout to people who have "annoying" and "uncomfortable for others", type of tics.

Shoutout to people who tend to have a lot of tic attacks.

Shoutout to people with coprolalia, copropraxia, etc.

Shoutout to people with "bad and ugly" tics.

Those who's face get twisted, and looks "ugly"

Those who can't do anything because of their tics.

Those who struggle with walking, eating, etc.

I see you

And I don't think you're a bad person for it, I don't think you're a burden for others, you aren't, you are as valuable as people without tics.

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Tourette's culture is...

thinking that you're in a ''little-to-no-tics'' week/month, but then noticing you've been ticcing for so long but you just didn't know/didn't realize.

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