Tourretes Tics Me Off! Community Group
This is a group for people with tourettes, so we can support each other and chat.
My twitching and pain is getting the better of me. I need someone to talk to before I lose my mind.
This is a group for people with tourettes, so we can support each other and chat.
I'm Cameron, and I know nothing of you or your tics, but I know what it's like when they hurt, when people stare, and when you knock things over or spill them because of the tics. I know it's hard to deal with, I know it gets tireing when you have to explain to everyone that it's not your fault. What I do when I just want to stab the next person that asks or stares, I lock myself away in my room. I turn my music up loud, I pull out my notebook, I doodle, I write, or I just sit there looking at the pages. I take a hot bath, make cookies, cuddle my cat, have a lazy day. Basicly, I hide away from the world for a little. Have a little me time where no one can stare or ask.
It's important for everyone to find their "Safe Activity", something they do that prevents them from ticing. I don't know about you, but when ever I have my music going, my tics seem to be a little less violent, and sometimes even stop for hours at a time. When I was first seeing the signs of Tourettes, I started watching documentries of people with tourettes. There was one with a 24 year old woman who used to attend a collage of the arts before her diagnoses. She used to sing before dropping out. Every time she'd sing, not one tic would interupt her. Infact, some of her tics would make her sing!
I hope this was help?