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Helpful Tic Disorder Infographics

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fuck this. I’m making a NICE iceberg meme for a change

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“why would we make plans in front of you if you weren’t invited?” babe i was left out of everything growing up, i need 100% confirmation you want me there or i simply will not go

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To those with Autism and Tics

You have to unmask eventually.

Unmasking is even more necessary when your body is in constant management mode trying to appear "normal" while suppressing tics.

Your stress is increasing significantly while trying to appear neurotypical. You use a large amount of concentration while trying to manage your sensory outputs.

By trying to blend in with neurotypical people you are eliminating your body's ways of releasing stress after processing sensory. You are holding all of your normal ways of coping inside where you cannot decompress and destress.

Stimming is how you release internal feelings while processing the world around you. Stimming helps your body manage absorbing large amounts of sensory input. Stimming is a way of regulating your emotions during this. Stimming is how you sooth your body. Stimming helps you let out internal pressure.

Pressure is building exponentially with every tic you hold in. Allow yourself to atleast stim please. It will help with the after affects of holding it in for so long <3

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i genuinely think that tourettes is the funniest disorder to feel like an imposter about. like ah, yes, subconsciously im faking having to kick the ground for 5 minutes straight

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Here's to a year of bruised hands and pulled muscles,

Here's to a year of weird, funny remarks and strange looks,

Here's to a year of ableists, well meaning ableists, and people who don't care,

Here's to a year of anxiety, losing sleep, wanting to be normal.

Here's to a year of never being normal.

A year with Tourette’s.

Every twitch, whistle, click, shout and slap.

Here's to everything that's taught me.

I'm never going to be normal. And I never have been. But I'm so outwardly different that I act as a beacon letting others know that it's okay to be strange and screwed up.

My Tourette’s shows me people's true colours right when I meet them. It teaches me not to take life too seriously. It's a fun ice breaker. It cuts through silence and isn't afraid to speak its mind. It makes me feel okay with being a freak because I know I can't help it and I know that there's more to me than what meets the eye.

Maybe I'm just emotional and tired and a little tipsy right now and I'll wake up tomorrow and regret saying anything positive about the condition that renders me helpless and paralysed on the floor when I least expect it.

But on the one year anniversary, I just can't bring myself to hate it.

Because then I'd be hating me.

And I'm not going to do that anymore.

Happy New Year and happy birthday to my Tourette’s.

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Tic culture is ticcing until it feels ‘’right’’

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I just found out there's a Tourettes flag (not official, but I like it a lot) but it was too bright so I edited it to be a little softer on the eyes. Originals under the cut.

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I have tourettes and I do theatre, I just recently finished the show I’ve been doing, and I wanted to talk about that experience :)

I put a sticky note on my resume explaining I have TS and stuff, so that my directors would know ahead of time. I explained that it doesn’t affect my performance in acting usually because when I am concentrated on doing things like singing and acting then my tics can go away. They were so nice and chill about it and rarely even brought it up really. My tics are usually pretty mild, normally they’re pretty constant but small things (eye-widening, small noises, nose scrunching, head jerking, etc), and I’m pretty sure somehow most of my cast mates didn’t even know I had tourettes until like tech week when offstage I was having a conversation with a cast mate and I brought up my tics and we talked about that a bit. My stage director and music director and stage manager were literally all the coolest and nicest people ever. My music director gave me a ride one time and she’s neurodivergent too and has echolalia and she copied one of my tics and immediately was apologizing and felt so bad 😭 and I kept telling her it was fine lmao. It honestly makes me tear up how thoughtful and genuine she was, and my other director. A problem through tech and run throughs was them keeping my mic on while I was offstage and then the mic would pick up my tics lmao like whistling and popping, and my director asked if someone was whistling backstage the first time and I said it was me cuz I have a tic and she was like “oh ok that’s a tech issue, we’ll have to figure that out, cuz that’s not on you” and stuff. (Also random side-note the old guy who mic’d us gendered me correctly which felt so good lmao you don’t even know). But yeah literally I feel so lucky to get to experience working with the kindest most accepting and accommodating people, because this is the first show I’ve done since my tics have really developed and I got diagnosed, and I’m always worried about people judging or expecting me to suppress, so it was super awesome. I hope every tourettic theatre kid can have as good a company and people to work with

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People with tics do NOT have to suppress around you just to make you feel comfortable.

People with tics do NOT have to hold down a tic attack just for you to not feel uncomfortable.

People with tics do NOT have to suppress.

Suppressing is a shitty thing, when I suppress my tics, my whole body tenses up, I can’t talk because I’m afraid a vocal tic may come, I let small tics go because it can go unnoticed, I can’t focus on anything that isn’t suppressing tics, I suppress because I’m afraid people can look at me weird, say something bad, or bully me.

And yes, is a form of surviving in a neurotypical world, but it makes US have tic attacks, it make US tired, it make US feel like shit because we can’t unmask around people, we can’t be us with our tics.

So if you have a friend, family, anyone you know with tics, please, let them unmask, let them be free with their tics.

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Reminder that ‘Anxiety tics’ has ALWAYS referred to things like nail biting, leg bouncing, and skin picking during anxious/stressful situations. 

It is not a seperate ‘tourettes-like’ condition. Its really just a poorly worded category of anxious behaviours, all having NOTHING to do with sudden, involuntary sounds or movements. Which is what tics actually are. 

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Feeling like your faking while having a tic attack <<<<<<<<

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Please don’t tell people to suppress their tics!!!

I have Tourette’s, and I am able to suppress my tics for a short amount of time.

When I’m suppressing my tics, I experience this awful sensation of ants and sand under my skin, and pressure building up my extremities. I also experience a sharp pain in my chest. All my focus and energy goes into suppressing my tics.

For me, and many others, tics suppression can lead to side effects such as

- Tic attacks

- Anxiety

- Fatigue

- Rage attacks

- Seizures

- Dystonia

- Depression

- Worsened tics

- Heightened sensory issues

- Fainting

- Irritability

- Pain

- Restlessness

- And much more

Needless to say, tic suppression is not the solution for most people.

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if you fakeclaim you are an ableist piece of shit and are actively contributing to the shame and stigmatism of disorders as well as making disordered individuals terrified of being vocal about their experiences. the removal of a minuscule community of fakers will never be worth making disabled people scared and miserable over their symptoms and their identities. hope this helps!! get out

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Thing I learnt today:

A number of studies show that autistic infants have a higher fundamental frequency cry, with the space between the sounds is more narrowed.

In these studies, the parents of the autistic infant felt a feeling of unease and higher levels of stress at their baby's cry.

The cries also gave a feeling of unease to people who were not the parents.

Out of curiosity, I checked with my mum:

Very interesting.

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Here's some content for the people who hate talking, are selectively mute, go nonverbal/semiverbal, etc

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Yes!