#living with tourettes

[tiredofthissh-t]

Don't put someone down because they’re "faking" a mental illness/mental disorder or physical disorder. I haven't been medically diagnosed because my parents refused to get me diagnosed. So, I've had to do my own diagnosis. I know what I've diagnosed myself with, and I've done 4 months - 3 years of research. No one wants to have tics, no one wants to have c-ptsd, no one wants bpd (borderline personality disorder) , no one wants did (dissociative identity disorder), no one wants autism, no one wants add/adhd(attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyper disorder), no one wants ocd (obsessive compulsive disorder), no one wants to be neurodivergent. So dont accuse us of faking cause this could LITTERALY cause us to die. I 6 even tell you the amount of times if dislocated my fingers of dislocated my shoulder or how many times I've had ISS bc of my tics. It's not even my fault, but I've literally been expelled because of a tic. Or how many times I've dealt with a split, and i almost had to repeat a grade because i simply didn't remember. Even if you self diagnose, just do your research. Cause even if you do self diagnose its not faking.

#autism #neurodivergent #tics #tic disorder #tics and tourettes #tourettes #actually adhd #adhd #adhd problems #adhd things #adhd brain #actually ocd #awarness #ptsd #actually ptsd #actually cptsd #living with cptsd #just cptsd things #cptsd vent #actually bpd #bpd #bpd vent #dissociative identity disorder #did system #did osdd #actually did

[tic-loud-tic-proud]

Question for people with Tourette's and tic disorders

#tourettes #tourette syndrome #disability #tic disorder #tourettic #just bc im wondering #me personally; i want a cure but i wouldn't take it #im at a point where i have the confidence to exist in public without shame for the most part #and my worst tics are rarer #but i see how a lot of the people I know live #and how many of them desperately want a cure #so idk

[fentrashcat]

Tourette's gremlin has latched onto cartoons for the last few days and so we've got

"Hurt box, woo oo!" (Sang in the tune of ducktales, happened when I was getting my first aid kit for injuries)

Also Shane said "abandoned" in a Watcher video and his voice reminded me and I just go "Abandoned as a pup-"

Also the hurt box one has been in my head for over 25hrs, and I've managed to mostly avoid it but I'll catch myself starting to sing the first syllable and have to stare dramatically as if the tourettes gremlin is watching me on a cheesy TV show.

#fentics #tics and tourettes #i didn’t even watch ducktales that much #this is almost as bad as when Elmo's world lived in my head for a year

[shoplifting]

HELLO✨ happy women's day to and from my bigender self! it's my birthday again and I feel insane at not being a teenager anymore but also not having bar access. Life is hard to do when you're stably housed but disabled, unemployed, can't drive, and don't live in walking distance of public transit. I'm finally back to doing classwork so if y'all wanna give me some money for pick me ups, my paypal is @aboveandbeyonder, cashapp is $brillyiantly, and venmo is @Eleanor-Cetina, and my teepublic is here; I'd really appreciate it, or just sharing this!! Love you all lots 💞💞

#bi rambles #actually autistic #actually adhd #actually ocd #queer #trans #nonbinary #bigender #tic disorder #it's so similar to tourettes but not quite what is the actually x tag #disabled #language disorder #expressive receptive language disorder #again what's the actually tag!!! #actually disabled #anyway listen to the song it's so good #i saw it live and now i understand spiritual experiences #Spotify

[i-hear-a-sound]

had an insufferably shit day today……….. Bridget nendoroid save me from the rope rn

#didn’t finish work today. didn’t eat well today. didn’t ummmmmmm idk TAKE MY MEDICATION 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁BUT WE BALLER NKW #WE SO GOOD WE SO GOOD WE SO BACK IM GONNA DWYER IT ON LIVE TV WE SO AWESOME AND HOT AND BEAUTIFUL #my bday cannot come sooner bro I plan starting 2 learn boxinggggg… might help with Tourette’s call it the ATTIC-K !BABE #it’s 12:13 I’m seeing colors unseen by mortal eyes for a reason Goodnight everyone

[auntbibby]

this is me im AuntBibby i have bubbs

btw i live in a disability grouphome. i rely on support staff. but im still fabulous sometims. but yeah im kind of incompetent at basic human stuff. im not one of those talented trans ladies. i can draw i guess. i used to compose music?

yes i have a chubby belly. yes i wish i was a bulldog sometims. i heard these 2 things are popular on tumblr.

btw im a virgin. hope u like me.

#transfem #trans rights #chubby #bodypositivism #bodypositivity #body positive #all women are beautiful #trans woman #auntbibby #patty locke #actually autistic #actually tourettic #actually ocd #otherkin #bulldog kin #dog kin #disabled #group home #supportive living #therian #alterhuman #furry #TF #Transformation

[snobgoblin]

i have no idea if i tend to be expressive or not. because some people say I'm extremely hard to read because I'm not that expressive but others say my body language is extremely easy to read so I'm like huh. which is it then

#someone should let me go in third person mode and observe. i need to know what I'm like #it would be extremely funny if i push for my art to be expressive and then i am just Not like At All #its so weird living in a body you know so little about. because its like im IN HERE. but i never. see it. i dont know what I'm like #and then there are also variables like well. i have tourettes so it would be obvious when I'm nervous that would flare up #and of course when I'm around my mom i definitely police my expressions a lot more because she always made fun of them when i was a kid #hell she still does lmao but not as much because ive Learned

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

kleptomaniac Jet Star

pyromaniac Fun Ghoul

dermatillomaniac (compulsive skin picking) Party Poison

#Kobra kid does not get a -maniac title but he does get uber autism and uber Tourette’s and uber nonverbal so #I see pyromania (adjective) and think hm what if I said pyromania (clinical definition) #same for kleptomania #I see people watering down a mental disorder into an adjective and immediately start writing something about it as an actual issue #you said pyromaniac fun ghoul? I will give you pyromaniac fun ghoul. #and poison gets the skin picking disorder because i said so #no excuse for kleptomaniac jet star I just want to #chaoticbuggybitchboy #text post #ttlotfk #the fab four #endangered gays fic #danger days the true lives of the fabulous killjoys

[aaaaaaaaraaaaaraaa]

Just found out about tourettic ocd as a proposal and that would explain so many years of my life and therapeutic route i feel exhausted at this discovery and please dsm don't disappoint me like you do for cptsd

#im also live doing an exam rn #lol #ill take a nap in the middle of this exam #it lasts like 30 hours #ocd #tourettic ocd #tourettes

[newwwwusername]

Hello!!! I absolutely loved the fanfic you wrote.l for me. And I hope I commented that somewhere. If I didn’t do tell me and I will!

Anyway, if your not busy, I had another request idea for Toradeen?

I was actually inspired by your Tourette’s headcanon for them!

Basically, my idea is like. This is when before they were friends. And like. One of their loud arguments causes them to get detention or something.

the detention teacher or whatever steps out for a while to let them study or something. And Clawdeens trying to do her work but every so often she’ll hear like tapping or some noise from Toralei. She asks her to stop and it’s silent for a while. Then they slowly start up again. Clawdeen, who doesn’t know she has Tourette’s, thinks Toraleis mocking her or something. Or like trying to purposely be annoying.

she eventually snaps and yells at her to be quiet and Toraleis all like ‘I’ve got bloody Tourette’s!’ And Clawdeen just is like 😲.

anyway, yelling at her caused Toraleis tics to increase (cause as someone who personally gets tics from BPD/OCD anxiety can cause a lot of mine) and so her tics start to increase a lot. But she’s clearly struggling cause she’s embarrassed to tic really in front of Clawdeen. So it’s like this painful thing where she’s trying to repress them but they keep bleeding through and Clawdeen quickly has to give her a hug (cause some of her more harmful tics are coming out) and she like. Tells her to not hold them back and all?

Idk. Something like that. I don’t have Tourette’s myself so if any of that seems off do fix it to be more accurate. I just got my stims and tics from Adhd/BPD/OCD. So it’s not exactly the same!

Any way ! Have a great day!!!!: and thank you sm!!

Please do not repost on other platforms. This will be posted on AO3 and TTBC under the same username.

Great. Not only had Clawdeen and Toralei had to endure the embarrassment that naturally came after having a rough, public argument, but now they were stuck in detention together for causing a scene.

Once Bloodgood had told them the base guidelines for detention, she walked out, trusting them to not kill each other. For as annoyed as she was with both of them, she also knew they were both, at the end of the day, responsible enough to not need supervision the whole time.

Unsure of what else to do, Clawdeen pulled out a book she'd been reading and began trying to lose herself in that, hoping it would help her pass the time, but she soon found herself getting distracted by this clicking noise that Toralei kept making.

"Toralei, I get you're bored, but can you please try to be a bit more quiet?" Clawdeen asked. To her surprise, Toralei actually looked a bit sad, but silence followed, so she supposed it was worth asking.

Toralei felt like her entire body was on fire. She was used to suppressing tics, but it was always harder when everything was so quiet because then every little tic was noticeable, so she couldn't let anything out.

She felt a few bubbling up and felt the urge growing stronger and stronger and she just knew that she wouldn't be able to hold them in forever.

"Haha!" she ticced relatively loudly, followed by a string of clicks. Clawdeen looked up at her with a deeply annoyed expression and she just knew she was in for a ride now.

"Oh my god, Toralei, shut up!" Clawdeen snapped. "I don't know if you're trying to mock me or just purposely trying to get under my skin, but it's honestly really immature"

"Fuck off!" Toralei replied venomously. "I've got bloody Tourette's, okay? You don't gotta- Woo! Haha!- Yell at me"

Clawdeen went still, suddenly feeling horrible. The last thing she ever wanted to do was to snap at someone for something they couldn't even control. Hell, one of her best friends was Autistic. She really should've known better...

Toralei pulled out her phone to try to distract herself, but the stress from getting yelled at was making her tics worse. Worse, she was embarrassed, which had always been one of her worst triggers.

She tried to continue suppressing them, but they kept escaping her, driving her further into discomfort and embarrassment. Her campaign opponent was watching her tic and twitch without control and it was honestly the worst feeling in the world.

It wasn't long before this stress compounded in the form of a harmful tic, forcing Toralei to repeatedly punch herself in the collarbone well after she could feel it start to bruise.

Clawdeen just watched her struggle, feeling awful about making it worse. However, once she realized the girl was actually hurting herself, she sprung into action.

Clawdeen got out of her seat and walked behind Toralei, who would've asked what she was doing if she could focus on her surroundings. Suddenly, the werecat felt a pair of arms wrapping around her, and a hand specifically came over her collarbone to protect her from the repeated hits.

"What are- Haha!- What are you doing?"

"It looked like you were hurting yourself" Clawdeen replied simply. "I don't like you, but I still don't want you to get hurt, especially cause I'm pretty sure this is my fault" she sighed. "Look, I'm sorry for yelling at you, okay? I didn't know about this, I just thought you were trying to annoy me"

"Okay"

"You don't have to suppress this, at least not around me, okay? I know better now"

"You're sure?" Toralei asked, and Clawdeen was caught a bit off guard. The girl looked so embarrassed, it was weird. She always just seemed like a beacon of confidence.

"Yes, I'm sure"

A moment passed before a low grunt erupted from Toralei's throat. Neither girl said anything about it. Her collarbone tic was thankfully beginning to calm down, and Clawdeen let go of her once she was sure she wasn't at risk of hurting herself anymore.

She went back to her seat and continued reading her book, just tuning out the occasional grunt or click or random phrase, which Toralei couldn't be more relieved about.

Once Bloodgood returned, Clawdeen noticed the other girl immediately start suppressing again.

Huh, she thought, eyeing the other girl curiously. Wait, does she trust me?

#fanfiction #fanfic #requests open #this was a request #monster high #monster high g3 #monster high live action #tourettes #tourettes syndrome #toralei x clawdeen #clawdeen x toralei #toralei stripe #clawdeen wolf

[ask-me-about-therapy]

Worth a Try ..

Primarily obsessional obsessive–compulsive disorder, also known as purely obsessional obsessive–compulsive disorder (Pure O),[1] is a lesser-known form or manifestation of OCD. It is not a diagnosis in the DSM-5.[2] For people with primarily obsessional OCD, there are fewer observable compulsions, compared to those commonly seen with the typical form of OCD (checking, counting, hand-washing, etc.). While ritualizing and neutralizing behaviors do take place, they are mostly cognitive in nature, involving mental avoidance and excessive rumination.[3] Primarily obsessional OCD takes the form of intrusive thoughts often of a distressing, sexual, or violent nature (e.g., fear of acting on impulses).[4]

According to the DSM-5, "The obsessive-compulsive and related disorders differ from developmentally normative preoccupations and rituals by being excessive or persisting beyond developmentally appropriate periods. The distinction between the presence of subclinical symptoms and a clinical disorder requires assessment of a number of factors, including the individual's level of distress and impairment in functioning."[2]

#tw intrusive thoughts #ocd intrusive thoughts #intrusive tw #intrusive thoughts #tourettic ocd #ocd symptoms #pure ocd #pure o #ocd shit #ocd #actually ocd #tw ocd #ocd things #ocd tw #living with ocd #ocd memes #social anxiety #obsessive compulsive disorder

[clevernessandtics]

Me: So yeah I am disabled.

That Person: No you aren’t not there’s nothing wrong with you.

Me: Actually there is because my brain + body do not function like they are supposed to. I am very much disabled.

That Person: But you can do anything you set your mind too!

Me: *Trying to figure out what setting for my brain that is*

#functional neurological disorder #ticcingteddy #tic disorder #fnd #tourettes syndrome #disabled lives matter #disabled #disability

[sleptwithinthesun]

few things to clarify about the h/ouse m/d t/ourette's au i've started:

c/hase has t/ourette's s/yndrome, and was diagnosed at the age of sixteen. he did not display symptoms in his youth; they developed as a response to stress and just... stuck around. he started ticcing when he was roughly fourteen.

the vast majority of his tics are categorized as simple and complex motor tics. basically, that means that his tics involve one (simple) or more (complex) muscle groups to trigger movement.

however, c/hase also does have vocal tics, which can be simple (usually just a sound) or complex (words or phrases). simple ones are far more common for him.

vocal tics can be loosely separated into verbal or phonic tics. verbal tics involve sound creation from vocal cords; phonic tics are sounds made with the mouth that don't involve vocal cords. examples of both are, respectively, humming and whistling.

c/hase does not have coprolalia or copropraxia, which are the 'cursing tics'. personally, i have both. i didn't want to give them to chase, though, for fear of perpetuating a stereotype.

he does have echolalia/echopraxia (repeating other people's words or actions as a tic), and palilalia/palipraxia (repeating one's own words or actions as a tic).

the previous three types of tics (copro-, echo-, and pali-) mentioned are all complex tics. the suffixes -lalia and -praxia pertain to vocal and motor tics, respectively.

a premonitory urge is the feeling, which is usually described as a building pressure or sense of wrongness in a certain area, that a person may feel before ticcing. it usually makes that person aware of the need to tic, and doesn't go away until the tic is completed. c/hase does experience this, but his premonitory urge builds up quickly, meaning that he's often unaware that he's going to tic until right before he does it. complex vocal tics usually surprise him.

c/hase's experiences and tics are based off my own. as i flesh out the au, specific tics that c/hase has may change. you may take those instances as him losing some tics and gaining some others, or certain tics changing. for example, i used to have a vocal tic that had me sing two notes, but now, i hum it.

my writing is not going to be entirely accurate. i have never written a character with t/ourette's before, and it will take me time to understand how to word my experiences.

i will do my best to remain consistent. if there are issues, please don't point them out. not every tic presents on a daily basis, and severity changes. my tics fluctuate day-to-day. that's how it is.

as a warning, there will be self-harming tics in the future, which involve c/hase hitting or punching himself in some capacity. again, i directly experience this. if you are uncomfortable or feel unsafe, do not read it. trigger warnings will be before the cut.

having t/ourette's does not prevent c/hase from being a doctor. there are certain struggles, yes, but he is perfectly capable of performing his tasks and taking care of patients. if i did not make this very clear in the first fic, here is your reminder.

stories will alternate between snz-focused and t/ourette's-focused. if you just want to read the snz ones and ignore the others, i won't blame you in the slightest. TS is uncomfortable for some people. still, discomfort is healthy. please do not push yourself beyond your boundaries. only read if you feel safe to.

...i think that's it. idk. there's a lot to it, and i haven't even touched on the other symptoms of TS besides tics. i might reblog this later with more information, but i think this is what's necessary to understand going forward. i really appreciate you all letting me write these stories as it means a lot for me to be able to share this. your respect, kindness, and enthusiasm are received well and with appreciation.

#r/obert c/hase #t/ourette's au #i live in fear of people discovering me lol #that's why the slashes #anyway #i hope this was informative!! #i am very open to asks regarding tourette's or other tic disorders #so you can send your questions #thank you for letting me write this #it means a lot

[lawndartzz]

who writes that Venomous Fangs series on AO3 where kobrakid has got Tourette’s Syndrome?

I like need to be mutuals lmao, big fan and i’ve got tourette’s too always reaching out for other people with it especially with similar interests

#danger days #tourette syndrome #danger days true lives of the fabulous killjoys #killjoys #danger days fanfic

[navree]

anyway the roswell new mexico show is also indescribably funny because i don't think anyone on this show is bilingual at all

#personal #they always have these moments where the hispanic characters mutter to themselves in spanish #but like extendedly and as if they forgot there aren't any people around #like these writers think if you're bilingual it's like Spicy tourette syndrome or smth #like that's not how being bilingual WORKS even if you're currently not speaking your first language #whenever i speak french i don't just randomly spout off in english every once and a while #i THINK in english but i stay speaking french #the most is that you might switch out sentences when speaking to someone with similar language capabilities #like you start a conversation in one language but then eventually you say a sentence in another and then continue on in that way #also they appear to have demanded that everyone who is meant to be hispanic be as obvious with it as possible #(like there's a character named 'rosa' and all the hispanic character do a hard rolling of the r in her name) #(even when speaking in unaccented american english and it is SO jarring) #(but what does one expect from a show that definitely started because the creators got socially conscious about latin american issues) #(for the first time in their entire lives and decided to spin a show around it) #(the creator is literally a friend of julie 'i was inspired to create legacies after the parkland shooting' plec)

[quickhacked]

>> last line tag

was tagged by @adelaidedrubman to share the last line of my current wip, thank you so much!! tagging @reaperkiller, @necro-hamster, @bluemojave, @shellibisshe, @strafethesesinners, @henbased, @morvaris, @aartyom, @aelyosos and anyone else who wants to do this!

Soft rumbling of thunder in the distance filled the room and Vitali watched carefully as Mikhail indecisively took some more steps, hands restlessly fumbling with his shirt and quiet coughs and clicks leaving his lips. His hand moved up, and he tapped his chin- he was stressed, no doubt, and Vitali knew there wasn't much he could do to help him. 'Do you want me to leave?' he quietly asked, crossing his arms in front of his chest; the temperature in the room had dropped significantly- at least, that's what it felt like.

#tag games #nuclearwriting #not really a line but like. context girls (gn) it's about the context #i'm jumping from wip to wip lmao this is the one where vitali and mikhail have their first fight ever <3 #mentioned it before but i'll say it again mikhail has tourette's so he has tics! #literally eating live wires rn this fic is gonna be so painful to finish #again besties: lmk if i'm overwhelming you with tags!! small circle etc etc and i feel like so many ppl have already been tagged ahgjfhgjd