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Psychology notes + For King and Country = a good study session

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I wish more people understood Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders

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found this today

Please use these terms correctly. Not doing so will deeply harm the people who actually have experienced trauma, gaslighting, triggers, and people who have NPD.

Edit: okay holy hell this blew up overnight. To everyone who is mentioning the censoring - I did not make this graphic, nor did I censor it. I ABSOLUTELY AGREE and it actually kind of ties into my original point. That being said, PLEASE stop reblogging just to say that. I know. Everyone knows. It has been said enough.

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Studying for psychology. This week in Psych 101 we are learning about types of research and what goes into it. It’s been interesting so far.

I would love to do one of those 100 days of productivity but let’s be real, I would never keep up with posting every day.

This is my third week of school and I am enjoying it so far. This morning I submitted a learning memoir for my composition class.

I am taking 4 classes this semester. I’m looking forward to seeing what comes out of it and how the Lord moves through this.

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One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

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Bible study recently. Finn has started to join me again which makes my heart happy.

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What NOT to say to someone with tics

About a year ago I asked for people with tics/Tourette's to send me things not to say to people with tics. I am so sorry it has taken me so long to post this.

"I'm so sorry" - this could make someone feel bad about being disabled and it feels condescending

"Well you don't look like you have Tourette's" - Tourette's doesn't have a look and not all disabilities are visible

"Just relax" - being relaxed doesn't necessarily make tics go away

"Stop hitting yourself" - don't you think I would if I could.

"Have you tried yoga" - yoga wont magically make someone's tics go away

"But I didn't see you tic" - tics fluctuate so just because you didn't see someone tic doesn't mean they are faking

"You have tics, do you swear?!" - not everyone with tics has coprolalia and its a stereotype that all people with tics swear

"Can you stop that please" - tics are involuntary, someone can't just stop having a tic because you find it annoying

"So you can say whatever you want and not get in trouble" - this is just not true at all, people with Tourette's face a lot of discrimination because they can't control what they say and people think they are faking so they can be rude

"Well if you take medication, why aren't your tics gone?" - medication doesn't make tics go away fully

"Can you tic *insert word/movement here* for me?" - this is just so rude!!

"I wish I had tics" - even if you mean this in a positive way, it is still really disrespectful

There are so many more not on this list as well!

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Finn used to join me for bible study every day. I miss when he used to join me

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push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.

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A furry friend while working on orientation for school in the fall

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Daily Bread with Breakfast

It is so important for me to daily get into the Word of God. Some days I fail at this. But I try my best to be consistent at getting into the Word. I am currently reading through Psalms and Exodus.

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There's a genuine terror for a certain percentage of us with Tourettes that we may be actually KILLED OR ASSAULTED for ticcing in the wrong time and in the wrong place to the wrong person.

People think we're drunk or on drugs or we mean what we say and somehow that gives them the right to abuse us.

What I say as a tic is ALWAYS out of my control, but your reaction is 1000% in YOUR control.

Do better for those of us with neurological illnesses.

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Gee I wonder why I relate so much to Vanellope from wreck it Ralph.

1. Her glitches reminds me of my tics and how she is separated from the others reminds me of I feel separated from everyone, even my own mother, with my tics

2. Gets super excited easily like me over small things like friendship. Also values it deeply and will be hurt by betrayal

Huh, weird. She’s like me fr fr

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"Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker." IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN (1966), dir. Bill Melendez.

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There's a genuine terror for a certain percentage of us with Tourettes that we may be actually KILLED OR ASSAULTED for ticcing in the wrong time and in the wrong place to the wrong person.

People think we're drunk or on drugs or we mean what we say and somehow that gives them the right to abuse us.

What I say as a tic is ALWAYS out of my control, but your reaction is 1000% in YOUR control.

Do better for those of us with neurological illnesses.

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Shout out to adults with Tourette's. Shout out to 40 year olds whose tics are just as severe as when they were 14. Shout out to everyone who was told they would grow out of it and never did.