yknow what, tourettes advocacy HAS to be more radical. i do not care!!!! we need to stop begging for people to be nice to us, to let us exist, to stop fucking laughing. i think we ought to focus on stop asking me weird intrusive questions, stop making me your inspiration porn, stop making me tic for you. we gotta demand better representation in the media because i personally can’t think of a single canonically tourettic character that isn’t the punchline. we have to focus our awareness on the exhaustion, the pain, the frustration, the discrimination, and the DISABILITY of existing with it rather than just the mild discomfort it causes other people to, god forbid, witness us existing. we have to stop apologizing and justifying and (jesus i wish i didn’t have to say this) accommodating others because ours is one of those “nasty” conditions to see and hear. it’s okay if we consider ourselves physically or neurologically disabled. it’s okay if we don’t. it’s okay if we wanna be considered “tourettic” as an identity and it’s okay if we don’t. it’s okay to tic and it’s okay to find it funny and it’s okay to not. im tired of masking it hurts and it’s exhausting and it makes me irritable. and im tired of not sticking up for myself. but anyway sorry lollll sorryyyyy sorry sorry sorry sorryyyy for sharing a space with people who don’t tic sorryyyy—
