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coping mechanism of your disorder coming back to fuck you over: posting on your tumblr account

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what's in my bag? tourettes edition:

not pictured: my water bottle, which has a carabineer so that I can hook it to the bag strap.

bag contents below:

headphones

cane (for leg tics)

compression gloves

chapstick

med bag (prescriptions and pain meds)

fidget toys

pin badges ("I have tourettes" and "they/them")

the bag

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real talk. with my tourettes coming back despite taking my meds as I'm supposed to, I'm afraid of a reassurance of my FND symptoms. I can't afford to lose my mobility again. I really don't want to do that again.

genuinely. last time I got tics this bad, my. FND flared a few days later. I guess I'll have to monitor my tics, keep taking my meds, and call my doctor as soon as I can.

if it continues this way, I may have to talk to my manager and let them know that I may have an issue here soon if this doesn't resolve itself. I'm fucking scared tbh.

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my meds, which have worked for me for two damn years have just. not been working for the last three days?

god fuck.

I am this 🤏 damn close to getting my EMT licence. I can't do this right now.

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last minute making a character in my fic have tics. now I have to go edit to reflect this

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Fake claiming people who had tics in 2020/21 needs to stop and here's why:

first of all. I'm against fake claiming in general. you have no idea what people's situations or lives look like. you have no right to tell them what medical conditions they do or don't have. but. let's lay out some reasons why you may have seen a lot more people with tics then vs now.

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- firstly. it was 'trending'. if you were seeking out people with tics to gawk at. you were going to see them.

- talking about tics brings them out. people were making videos and content about their ts/tics, and so naturally, they were ticcing in those videos. that does not mean that they must tic all of the time in order for them to have tics.

- I spent years trying medications, waiting to see a neurologist. getting on different doses, etc. before I found something that works. when I'm on my meds, I usually don't tic hardly at all. that very well could be the case for some of these people as well.

- tic disorders wax and wane. it's a well known part of the disorders. tics can be bad for a while, and then almost non-existent for a while. and then come back. it's normal.

- tics also tend to get worse in times of high stress and anxiety (global pandemic??!)

- tourettes is not the only tic disorder. the options aren't only. tourettes or faker. there is such thing as transient/provisional tic disorder, which is a very real tic disorder that lasts for less than a year. there are also other causes of tics such as fnd.

- it's a well known phenomenon that people's tics sometimes improve in adulthood. it doesn't mean that they were faking before. it just means that they got a lucky break.

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fake claiming is gross, and this mindset only does harm to the tic disorder community. it's ableist and ignorant to assume someone is faking just because you're uneducated and think that you know more than the person who actually has the disorder.

please try to support the people you know, and the people in your community with tics. it's rough out here for us.

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[ALT TEXT- smiling: finally finding a medication that helps your tics. Disappointed: The side effects]

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nooo tics. not today I have movie theatre tonight 😭😭😭

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trick or treat :))

- @talking-tics

Trick.

[image: an electric handshake buzzer]

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my coworker also has tourettes and we've been setting each other off all afternoon lmao. like our own personal aviary

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growing up I always wanted to be poorly understood by science

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real footage of me resisting the urge to tourette’s every comfort character of mine ever:

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people are 'fine' with people with tic disorders until we're not entertaining enough.

until we're not 'cute' or 'interesting' enough of a freak for them.

and then they kick us to the curb when they've had their fucking fill. and I'm so damn tired of it

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oh hello tourettes. hell of a fucking shift to make a reentrance during

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if it's tourette's syndrome why do i have it? can i give it back to him?

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uuuh I think I did that a while ago but thanks Tumblr