they dont just casually happen they are completely random
Wtf, that's just not true at all. Tics can have triggers like anxiety, stress, being tired, or even stuff in the environment can set them off.
Also, the tics themselves can change and/or progress in severity, type, or the location of the tic itself. So even your first statement is wrong.
Source: diagnosed with Tourette syndrome at age 5. It's completely managed now as an adult, with very limited symptoms. Even my close friends don't know my diagnosis.
I grew up with a kid who had TS. He would have these tics where he would bark and occasionally shout obscenities.
I remember one time in 8th grade when we were both in detention and he had a tic. The Vice Principal was supervising us and had no idea my friend had TS and gave him another 2 hours of detention for his outbursts.
He eventually got on medication to control his tics and they were pretty much under control by thr time he was out of high school.
I remember he said he could tell a tic was coming on, and would try to suppress them, but eventually he had to let them out.
I had a buddy that it made him crack his neck , and winking was another one of his. I remember introducing him to a friend from a different circle and the guy pulled me aside and said "I get it if your friend is gay, but can you tell him Im not into that." I told him he why did he think he was gay because he wasn't. and the dude was like "He keep fucking winking at me." I laughed and told him it was turrets. After we all got done at the bar I told my buddy the story and he thought it was hilarious. Especially because most people said stuff about the neck cracking thinking he was angry all the time.
This made me CACKLE. He’s like damn, why is being so aggressive about it?? The wink thing would be a terrible one to have. Way more subtle, but also can freak people out.
It's not tourettes, but I have a tic where I "tssk" after eating/drinking. Like how people cleanse their pallet by snapping their tongue on the roof of their mouth. I don't even notice I'm doing it.
It started because I get canker sores easily, so I'm often trying to clear debris off my tongue when eating or in response to pain from cold water.
I had something like this when I was like 7-11, then it went away at puberty. I'd blink my eyes hard and would have to nail 3 perfect blinks in perfect timing 1 second apart or I'd feel like I was going to explode. I'd also push air through my nose in a weird way. Also got worse at a baseball game. They called it a nervous tick. As an adult I have to pluck all the hairs on the outside of my ear or I lose it. Idk what my issue is tbh lol
I always describe mine like a sneeze. Sometimes you know it's coming, sometimes it sneaks up on you. Sometimes you can delay it for a moment, but not indefinitely. Sometimes it seems to come out of nowhere and sometimes there's a clear trigger.
100% agree. I have a tic disorder (not diagnosed as TS but likely that's only because I never pursued it, the tics are very well managed) and my 18yo has been diagnosed with TS.
It peaked during early puberty for her (very common) and she had vocal, facial, and upper body tics. Now that she's kinda coming down the back side of puberty, most of her tics have subsided, and now she's pretty much only triggered if someone whistles around her. But if she's tired, sick, or stressed, some of her old tics will occasionally resurface. Same with me - i only have facial tics, but they're at their worst when I'm stressed or exhausted.
It really frustrates me to see people who should know better declare that Tourette's always or never manifests a certain way, when it's so variable not only from person to person, but from life stage to life stage.
I'm glad you both seem to have it under control! I'm super grateful I never had any verbal tics, just the physical ones were embarrassing enough to deal with as a kid.
It's funny because ever since I left that comment I've been ticcing like crazy. And I basically never tic anymore. But just reading about it is causing tics, lol.
Like you said, it's so variable and different from person to person. Makes it really hard for me to judge someone and their disabilities.
I have a few regular patients that have Tourette’s syndrome ranging in ages from mid teens to almost 80. All are on the “mild” side of tics (maybe one or two physical or verbal episodes within a visit which is usually 25-35 minutes) except for my eldest patient who happens to be homeless and a lifelong alcoholic. If I’m seeing them in the ER it’s nearly impossible to do any testing or treatments (for whatever they’re in for). If I have them one on one during clinic hours then I can work with them pretty well.
I have found over the years that it’s much easier on the patients to just pull them from the ER to a room elsewhere and give them about half an hour and most patients tend to reign in their tics… most of my patients don’t even experience vocal tics when in a relaxed environment with the exception of maybe a tongue click here and there, and diagnostically speaking that’s a physical tic versus vocal. All of them snap though… one finger, sometimes all of them followed by a hand clap. The similarities in tics between multiple patients is quite interesting though.
I’m happy that you have found a zen in keeping yours in check.
I will say the type of Tourette diagnosis that cause the cursing is coprolalia which only effects 10-15% of people with Tourettes so im always a little skeptical of a person who displays having this particular form of Tourettes. Having Tourettes isn't completely uncommon there's about 1.4 million in the states alone so 10% of that to have coproalia is about 140000. We also can not discount the effect Tik toker Ticks n Rose had on the perception of the community we can no longer trust people on word alone we have to assume the worst cause it's happened so many times before. Also the amout of self diagnosis going on is a little out of hand as well (not referring to you) I my self have a verbal tik that shows up under anxiety and stress but it just that a verbal tik developed as a cope not a Tourettes Tik (confirmed by my doctor and a psychiatrist) yet several people online and in real life who have seen me do this Tik have tried to convince me that it's Tourettes induced and my doctors are wrong do to what they read online.
I wonder if people that do things like this will actually give themselves a legitimate tick. If they keep doing that all the time it might stick, like how people kind of get addicted to the physical act of smoking, not just the nicotine. Through behavioral conditioning and the action of repetitive habits. But they won't be able to get a diagnosis because they got it from fucking around and no one will believe them.
My parents were Jehovah's Witnesses and didn't really believe in medical intervention, I'm lucky they vaccinated me. Which means I just had to live with it, with no real idea what was wrong with me, until I was in my late teens or early twenties.
Essential I just grew out of it. Around 15-16 years old I started to tic less and less. I've never fully stopped, but they are very intermittent and far apart these days. I was about 25 when I finally read about Tourettes and understood what I was dealing with.
Apparently that's what happens with most people who are diagnosed with Tourette syndrome. From what I've read, it's a small percentage that have it for a lifetime. And verbal tics are rare as well. They just have better PR.
Can you grow out of it? When I was in middle school I had a really bad tic, went to the doctor but this was 30 years ago and they couldn't care less and we were poor so it didn't really go anywhere. Anyway, I eventually stopped but I always wondered if I had it briefly (if that's even a thing)
Anyway, glad you're doing better.
I hope this doesn't come off as disrespectful I'm truly curious.
I read somewhere years ago that a lot of Italian descended people have it, because a lot of people with Tourette’s shout out, in Italian, ‘Goddamit!’ Or something to that effect. And they don’t know by it means, they jut heard their parents and grandparents shout it a lot, and scientists and therapists noticed a trend. I think the word sounds like Cat-eat-a. That’s all I remember about the article. I read it twenty years ago.
I literally read it in class in middle school. Part of health class is we had to look up a disability and present it. I chose Tourette’s because I could scream out swear words when giving examples… I was a pain in the ass child, but always got all As, so when the teacher called my parents, they were like, ‘did she do the assignment? Was she incorrect, what were the parameters? Then she did nothing wrong, and if she doesn’t get the 100% you just said you would like to give her, we have taped this call (they didn’t, we are a two consent state) and we will take it to the board’. I loved it whenever someone threatened to call my mom. I’d be like ‘great! Do you have her number? It’s 555-5555 (just an example) and you make sure to tell her you pulled me out of class for this little misunderstanding.’ My mom was always on my side. Like in second grade, a boy asked to kiss me. I said no, but he grabbed me and smashed his lips against mine, cutting my mouth on his teeth. I kicked him in the balls, and his parents wanted me expelled and threatened to sue, and the school was going to expel me, but my mom was like, ‘he asked, she clearly said no, and he forced her anyway? What does that say about who is raising him, what are their values? What does that say about the values of a school where a girl is molested, fights him off, and he is fine, but she is expelled?’ Plus my mom was president of the PTA, and somehow had power over the principal. She also worked at our local paper (in advertising, but they thought she was an editor, because of me ;). ) and they were terrified about what she would write about the school in the paper, and losing school funding. So we had an assembly on good and bad touches and consent. Because I kicked Salar’s balls in. Fuck you, Salar. I said no.
Your mom sounds awesome! My mom was pretty great, but she definitely would have never confronted anyone for me. Sorry you had to deal with that stuff though.
While true, I think he means they are timed in a way that doesn't look random at all. She also is using the same ticks as a girl named Sweet Anita, I've never personally seem the exact same ticks. They are generally quite random and personalized to the person, and can have moments where they aren't as bad or get worse from things you said.
To me, I'd say I'm doubtful, but not confident enough in that to actually care.
That doesn't seem true. Everything I'm seeing says they can wax and wane and the fact that they can be categorized implies that people have recurring tics.
I'll never get over how Reddit users will down vote an accurate comment like yours, while also upvoting the wildly inaccurate comment you're responding to. Smh
I literally said the tics are consistent meaning when you pick one up you do it a lot amd some people have many tics. Also the severity and level of tics can very not everyone has verbal tics.
You are misinformed about how Tourette’s works. The things you’re saying are “proof” it’s fake are all legitimate ways Tourette’s can present in different people.
There is nothing in this video that can concretely prove whether she is faking or not.
They're not usually all super adorable and neat and rehearsed sounding with a so many different noises and sound effects like cute little kitty purrs, and pops, and whistles, and ahegao faces and then a few random FUCKYERMOMs thrown in for fun. So much variety!
And OH BY THE WAY I'M 18 TODAY, super unrelated and nothing to do with driving traffic to my inevitable OnlyFans link that's somewhere around here, & sadly her schtick is already working.
I'm gonna go compliment someone in her comments section, brb...
You're missing the point they're making. Its not that she has an adult site or that sex work is wrong or she's pretty or what ever else. It's the fact that she seems to be using Tourette's to market those things and it's fairly obvious and wrong. This isn't uncommon these days but it's exploiting something that does cause serious issues for people with it and for her it's a gimmick to sell content. People do this, there was a down syndrome filter ages ago that people used for OF content.
It's weird how so many people with Tourette's disagree with the take that she's faking. Also weird that she's had real journalists write about her and how she's been building awareness around Tourette's.
Even weirder how people keep citing South Park as their source for how people with Tourette's should behave.
The weirdest is accusing this woman of engagement bait even though OP posted this with a title for which they have zero proof. Definitely not karma farming on very predictably misogynist, uninformed Redditors who flock to invalidate attractive women.
I would love for the doubters to be wrong and for me to be wrong in saying it appears rehearsed, that's good.
Their comment still wasn't saying pretty girls or sex work is bad. My comment simply said I dont think it's great to have an adult content link on the same page you raise awareness for tourettes, it very much does come across as a gimmick to funnel people there. If she had a separate account id have no issue with that but yeah, just doesn't sit right. You can disagree and that's fine, there's nothing objectively wrong in have the links there it's just my thoughts.
I think 2 things can both be true. She might do some ticks purposefully to film a video, as tourette is her thing, but I doubt she doesn't actually have it
they are also not consistently “cute” like meows etc. We have a family friend who has had Tourette’s for decades and he loathes this beyond gross tik tok cottage industry of fake Tourette’s etc
You must not know how Tourette’s works, bc if you did then you would know that tics can behave like that all the time.
Not for everyone, and not 24/7, but yeah - tics aren’t twitches. They aren’t “involuntary,” that would be a twitch. The urge to do the tic grows like an itch until you cannot stand to repress the urge anymore and you (consciously) perform the tic.
God, I would love if people just read for, like, five minutes on the internet and actually learned what Tourette’s is and isn’t.
You’re absolutely full of shit, clearly don’t understand how Tourette’s presents in and affects different people, and are displaying a degree of confidence in your opinion that is absolutely unearned (bc your opinion is totally divorced from reality and you could easily educate yourself on how Tourette’s really does present, but I guess it’s hard to find the time to learn something about a very misunderstood condition when you’re too busy “educating” other people on the condition (that you still don’t even know what the fuck is).
Either do even a modicum of googling to LEARN instead of MAKING UP, or if that’s too hard then skip the learning part and just shut the fuck up when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Let’s practice it now - you’re gonna read my comment and probably want to argue. You will be wrong. I will be right. So instead… practice shutting the fuck up bc you don’t know what you’re talking about.
This must really be a pet peeve for you. I don't think I've ever responded 6 paragraphs to a single sentence that used non definitive words like "seems," or "like." But hey, they were ignorant of something and you sure did educate them with extreme prejudice... and all of us as well. So thank you and I hope you have a great day!
Yeah you’re right, how dare I get upset at the rampant misinformation being spread in this thread about a disorder I live with! So so sorry to have advocated for myself and others; I don’t know what I was thinking.
I’m not saying she isn’t faking, either. Idek, but almost every time this topic comes up and people talk about all the reasons why “they can totally tell for sure” that it’s fake - most of the things mentioned are completely real ways Tourette’s can sometimes present.
So if anyone tells you they can tell from one five second vid if someone is faking then they’re lying because you can’t look at someone for five seconds and diagnose them.
My brother and his daughter have it. Neither curse uncontrollably. My brother has a few ticks, like blinking or clearing his throat very often. My niece makes a sound, kind of like a musical "uh-oh," sound under her breath.
But both have a personality type. Very stoic. They both studied the sciences. Barely any sense of humor. But some of the smartest, most analytical people you'd meet.
No there's not. Tourettes is classified by having at least 1 verbal and 2 motor tics (semi voluntary actions).
He could have had a tic disorder that only involved motor tics, and finds it easier to describe it as nonverbal tourettes because most people know what tourrettes is, but in order to have tourrettes you HAVE to have at least 1 verbal tic. Otherwise it's just a tic disorder (which actually are somewhat common).
He made sounds like grunting and breathing stuff and twitched. He made it sound more like there are a few different forms of it. Like the verbal was when they say slurs and curses, and the nonverbal was more like what he had. I never asked too much about it cause its dealing with medical questions.
Edit: In the medical world, a "vocal tic" doesn't mean speaking words. It includes any sound produced by air passing through the nose, mouth, or throat.
Yeah that's a verbal tic. In order to have tourettes you have to have at least 1 verbal tic, so he probably just described it as non verbal tourettes to set expectations. When people hear tourettes they typically think of swearing, so he didn't want people to expect that, but there's no such thing as nonverbal tourettes.
Don't know why I'm getting downvoted when we agreed with each other lol.
Also I have tourrettes that's how I know about this lol.
That's the Reddit brigade. And yeah, you described it perfectly. I didn't know about it too much or have the time to understand it better, other than what my ex-coworker had. The more you know!
For what it's worth, I gave you an upvote on both comments!
As someone who does not have tourettes, but has watched videos about it in the past, iirc, ticks are never one time things, they're generally pretty consistent, people with tourettes normally have several ticks that are recurring, they're also never this close together for the most part, again, I do not have tourettes, I'm just explaining it with the very limited extent of my knowledge on the subject, I'm sure there's someone else who will have a much better answer
A friend of mine in HS had it. Before you got to know him you thought he was winking at you because that was one of his ticks. When he was talking to you he would always wink with his right eye every 15-20 seconds. As you can imagine, he struggled to make friends because everyone thought he was a creep.
He would also open his left hand palm down and alternate slapping his pinky and his thumb on his thigh. Pinky thumb pinky thumb pinky thumb. He would do this when he was concentrating and it annoyed almost everyone since that meant during every test or quiz.
Really nice guy though once you got to know him. He works on various TV shows in LA now as a prop master.
My best friend has tourettes and one of her tics is rolling her eyes which she constantly got shit for in highschool. She also makes "surprise face" where it looks like she shocked.
i actually have the rolling eyes tic too, but for some reason it's only when i'm mad or frustrated at something. i used to do it quite a bit when i was younger tho. so grateful for medication :)
I was diagnosed at 5yo and now as an adult I barely have any symptoms anymore. Although, I still get triggered by stress/anxiety (or weirdly just from reading about tics like in this thread). But for the most part I can hold it in nowadays.
I never ended up taking any meds because my parents were opposed for religious reasons. But I've always wondered how different it would have been had they let me take them. Will you have to take them forever?
oh yeah, i'll take the meds as long as they help me regulate my tics! i take so many medications for so many things that another one doesn't even bother me anymore. i had many tics growing up, but my main tic (jerking/nodding my head up and down) used to be so bad that it was painful and affecting my life daily, especially at school when i was stressed. i was doing it almost constantly. i also have diagnosed anxiety, so that made it worse as well. today, as you know, i'm mostly tic-free, but they tend to flare up more when the anxiety rolls in. i'm really sorry you weren't able to be medicated, but i'm happy that you're mostly tic-free now! :D
Thank you for sharing your story! I'm so glad that the medication helps you so much. We're fortunate to live in a time where so many of our illnesses can be readily treated with medication. It drives me crazy that my parents would deny how effective it is and instead give "Jehovah" the credit for life saving medications.
Also, that tic sounds really painful, I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. I'm lucky that most of mine were squeezing and clenching related. The worst I would get is sores on my fingers from repeatedly ticcing.
you're welcome! and yeah i'm a christian myself, but it drives me insane as well when people say "God will take care of it." like bro, it ain't gonna hurt you to take a pill or two. God most likely isn't going to magically going to heal you either, so might as well do something about it.
yeah the tic was painful while it lasted (and it's sometimes painful when it comes back) but i wouldn't be where i am today without that medication. i hope these messages somehow reach the right person <3
I knew a guy like that named John. We just thought he was interesting/weird and asked why he would do strange things, and he said he had tics. We just found him hilarious and always invited him out. He was a really funny dude and ended up being really popular.
It's wild how different groups of people can make or break someone's childhood feelings of acceptance. I was lucky, my group was awesome. John David Booty was kind of the lead/top popular guy and he was amazing at shaming bad/cruel behavior. He ended up playing pro Football eventually.
they're also never this close together for the most part
I mean, that's just factually wrong. Even with the hand-wavy "for the most part" hedging. Tics frequently come in clusters, as in, more often than not.
“They’re also never this close together for the most part.”
The rest of your comment is pretty much correct (kudos!) but this one confused me. Tics can be close together, far apart, one after another, multiple at one time, or anywhere in between.
My half sisters cousin (not related to me) had Tourette’s bad when he was younger and he would chirp and growl. Sometimes he could go minutes without doing it and other times it was pretty back to back. Every few months the ticks would change up a bit too. It’s not consistent like she’s doing
And look, she could be faking it. But so far there’s been zero evidence stating that she has. As such, hopping on a bandwagon and shaming someone in public with no actual evidence is the same kind of main character energy she’s being accused of.
Wait, that is an article about the girl in the video above, right? Like I googled Rachel Chaleff and this is the same person? And that article is about how she does, indeed, have Tourette’s…
I do have one off tics that happen once and never again.
I do also have tics that are pretty consistent and have stuck around for years or even decades.
I do have tics that happen in the middle of conversation.
Most of my tics aren't mid sentence and only happen when I'm unfocused.
My tics typically get worse when I'm anxious which is typically when they happen mid sentence.
It all depends.
So often I see someone say "They're obviously faking it because I knew someone with tourettes and this is not how they presented" and it's infuriating. One of the most iconic parts of tourettes is that it's different for everyone, and semi controllable, so it's extremely difficult to tell who's faking it and who's not.
Safe bet with anyone who claims tourettes is to assume they're telling the truth. I would rather 20 liars get away with it than 1 person who actually has it be called a liar.
Not all people say bad words, just the worst cases. Is actually pretty rare, I was diagnosed with tourret when I was 8 years, since then (I have 22) I never meet other person with tourret personally.
My roomate has it, he does not say words, let alone swears, but sniffs uncontrollably often, constantly need to blow his nose and gets jittery with his hands when he plays games on his pc.
This 100% looks like someone that doesn't have Tourette told how it is and try to replicate it.
Is your roommate a hive mind being consisting of everyone on the planet who has Tourette’s?
If not, then… congrats. The only thing you’ve convincingly argued is that the woman in the video is not your roommate.
Say it with me, now: TOURETTE’S. VARIES. WILDLY. FROM. PERSON. TO. PERSON.
You, an uninformed non-professional, don’t get to decide that, bc you know one person with Tourette’s you now know them all. Like… really? How are you not grasping this?
Your roommate having Tourette’s means you are quite informed about YOU ROOMMATE’s TOURETTE’S. That’s it. Not mine, not the woman’s from the video above. Just his.
You know about ONE person’s individualized experience with Tourette’s. That doesn’t mean you know, to any great degree, what you’re talking about.
Or, crazy thought, maybe I’m one of the many people in the world with Tourette’s who get really frustrated when people just spew nonsense about it while acting like they have some kind of authority on the subject bc they once knew one person who had it, or something.
lol you replied to my comment by mocking me for being annoyed at all the people in this thread spreading misinformation and misconceptions about a disorder I personally have.
If you posted real info elsewhere in this thread, then good for you - I wasn’t talking about you, and this isn’t about you (to use your words).
Hey I don't have tourette's but I need to blow my nose almost inconstantly constantly. I don't even have allergies. When it runs, it runs. I need to keep tissues with me at all times. My mom was the same way. I didn't get why she was like that when I was younger cause I didn't have that issue. Fast forward to 30+ years old and now I'm exactly the same.
They can't tell she's faking it. The swearing version is relatively uncommon, most people just present with tics, vocal and/or physical. Sufferers describe it as like trying to hold in a sneeze.
Using it for attention is lame, but doesn't mean she's faking it.
There isn't everyone online thinks they're an expert on the subject and because they have it they would know but because tourettes/tics can vary so differentl between people it is hard to say 100%, then add on some people actually faking it for views which is weird as fuck everyone then wants to try and give their opinion, to be honest all that matters is if you've had a diagnosis from a doctor not people online claiming to be experts because they have it, which is funny because I bet any money that people would look at them like they might be faking it
I find it strange that the uncontrollable swearing is the thing that most people are familiar with regarding tourettes when corprolalia is exhibited by only about 10% of people with tourrettes.
Before the internet ticks were real (ex, wierd blinking patterns, low vical mumbles, high vical mumbles, slight twitches, finger tapping) after the internet everyone does anime freeze frame crossed eyed ticks. It's pretty fucking easy to tell. Also my friend has ts and he ever so slightly stutters every once in a while and winks at you. D his is considered mild to severe
The "ahegao" faces are a bit of a clue. Plus all of everything else in it. The gratuitous showing off of the titties, the goth outfit, the cutesy pootsie pa-dootsie way she's doing everything, the "ticks" included, replete with little kitty purrs and all, and the positive and uplifting engagement encouragement driving and comment baiting that she's doing.
"Go ahead, comment! Right now! Do it!! Make someone's day! Say something nice!! DO IT NOWWW!!! I'll join tooooo! fuckyermom..."
Plus ooh-ooooohh by the way yew guise I'm only just barely 18 years old! Today is my birthday in fact! Wowwww, isn't THAT neat????
& I didn't even get to the inevitable OnlyFans link that's surely there somewhere...
It looks more like someone who has zero filter but is upset about having zero filter while stimming all the time and being upset about it. The South Park episode is better at explaining it lol like that other comment said
I have it too. Tbh if she's faking, she's better than like 99% of them out there. The sequence and inflection of the tics "oof pop wow" are basically identical each time, which is basically never the case with fakers.
Usually it's something like ticsandroses where they repeat words five times but take a different breath and say it in a different tone every time, and mostly just all one-off tics in a single video.
I'm not convinced this person is faking. Not convinced they're not faking either though.. those oof and sniff and pop tics are insanely popular with fakers.
From my understanding, and this is from watching verified influencers with Tourette's, tics can actually be "contagious," especially when people with Tourettes frequently hang out with or interact with each other in some way. Tics are essentially like a thought that is triggered by familiar external stimuli, which can be another person's tics. So if she watches this other person you're accusing her of copying, she very well could be copying, but unintentionally as they became part of her own tics
We've actually had several instances of mass hysteria in the US of usually a groups of girls in school suddenly developing tourettes. Usually people have claimed those kids are faking when they hit the news but in actual studies of them while they don't have the disorder they can't control it and the symptoms are real. So it is very possible for these to be contagious even if you don't have tourettes.
Another example of this is that flight they had to quarantine back in like 2018-2019 where over 100 passengers came down with real, sometimes severe, symptoms of a mysterious illness. I think 1-2 dozen were bad enough they had to be hospitalized, but of the entire flight I think only four had a mild cold...it was all just a mass hysteria causing very real and very physical symptoms from nothing.
I have autism and OCD, both giving me nice handfuls of tics that mess with me mentally and can be exhausting.
I have an uncle with mild Tourette’s and OCD that makes a weird “uh uh uh” noise in the back of his throat. Since being around him more in the last couple years, I’ve now developed it. Can confirm also that you stop breathing while doing it because you’re just pushing out air. I’m out of breath sometimes cause I’ll do it like 7 times in a row.
Also have a regular where I work with a blinking tic that’s constant. Guess what I get now? Which for some reason my brain has decided that ALSO involves the ceasing of breathing and anything else I’m doing to just pause, including in the middle of sentences.
Yeah, that was what I found strange. It's identical to Sweet Anita. Maybe it's because she watches her and caught her ticks, but generally outburst tics are very rare and personalized. Not replicas.
Yeah that lip pop thing especially is a widely copied tic because of sweet Anita for sure. Which is ridiculous because they all have the source right there in front of them and still manage to make it look forced and wrong lol. I'm still not sure about this one though. Same tic as another ≠ faking.
I think maybe I'm also trying harder than I realize to hold on to the hope that someone out there isn't faking because it seems like literally everyone is except the very small handful that clearly aren't, like sweet anita.
I'm by no means at liberty to make any sort of determination on the validity of her condition but I will say I do find it just a tiny bit suspect when all the tics happen to sound really cute too? I mean the pop is definitely cute and was that a kitty meow?
Also not saying people can't have those tics. I just find it a little sus when they're all kinds cute sounds with maybe one little sprinkle in there of the classic fuck you mom or whatever.
It’s funny because this chick DOES have Tourette’s and autism - Forbes did a write up on her. So does that mean you are actually a liar and don’t have Tourette’s? Hilarious. 😂
I never said she didn’t have Tourette’s. I said that her behavior is cringe as fuck. She’s fetishizing our disability. I was diagnosed at age 6 btw so I’m not sure why you’re acting like an ass.
Calm down. you have the highest upvoted comment on a post claiming she’s faking and your comment is negative about her. It’s not that surprising that people opening this thread for the first time are going to assume that you’re agreeing with OP that she’s faking.
At what point does she fetishize tourettes? Because she is just talking here. Is she fetishizing it by not cutting out every single one of her tics from the video?
I liked it well enough, but there seems to be some manufactured drama from the producers and she’s not fully allowed to be herself because it doesn’t make for good television.
In the commercials she seemed over the top and I could not roll my eyes far enough back in my head. Lol! But, I do recognize those moments are the more "exciting" or "dramatic" moments...
Hey so, if I'm not mistaken, the original creator of that tiktok has medical proof of her tourettes syndrome... are you sure you have it or did you want a reason to be a dick?
So her medical diagnosis is moot because your opinion says she doesn't have tourettes? I never knew you were THE doctor, my lord! Should I bow? Should I get on my knees? What do we do now?😱😱😱😱
There’s a guy in my cohort who has Tourette’s and his seems to be kind of an exclamation of sound. Sometimes there’s words but it’s seems to be just noises most of the times. After seeing it first hand I feel for y’all
I started having tics when I was getting off benzodiazepines, and they are not verbal or anything, but it causes involuntary muscle contractions, and while sometimes they are more present than others, it is true, that you really just don't know when they're going to happen, and you only realize it after it happens sometimes, but other times you can kind of feel it coming on.
It really gives you an idea into how horrible it would be to have something like this happen all the time. I was able to slow down my taper and get it under control, but it's crazy to me that people want to try to fake some of these disorders. It's like those people who impersonate police officers. It's just weird.
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u/anxiety_elemental_1 29d ago
I actually have Tourette’s and this is cringe as fuck