The reality of living with Tourette's

These people are sharing their daily struggles and frustrations of living with Tourette Syndrome.  #TouretteSyndromeAwarenessMonth

Transcript

00:00So here's a video of all my current tics and tics I've had in the past that I can think of. First is vocal tics

00:19Tics will come differently. I have the slapping one

00:24They're like eee one. I have that one

00:31I

00:36Everybody in my family all my friends all the people that are closest to me know I have it and it's not anything different

00:40You know

00:45Tourette's syndrome is a motor disorder that results in involuntary tics and there are many different types of tics not just

00:52Obscenities even though that definitely happens with Tourette's

01:00So

01:04I just had a tic that I've never had before and I left my arm in the position that the tic put it in

01:11What is this?

01:20Someone go get Yoshi. He's running. That's my personal favorite and they all change very frequently

01:26So last night was another tic attack

01:31Not bad

01:33and

01:35What you saw in my mouth was pain relief

01:38The thing about Tourette's is that we don't fully understand its cause when I talk about a specific tic or someone

01:45Brings it up or I think about it. It does trigger a tic for me

01:48But we do know there is a strong genetic component to it. But we also see an environmental component to it

01:56I

02:01People had questions like how do you like do your makeup and stuff is if you're focusing on something?

02:06It kind of makes you forget about the tics, which is why it kind of like works here

02:10I am sitting in the parking lot of Walmart. I've been sitting here. It's

02:15bonk

02:16I've been sitting here

02:18For almost half an hour. It's a beetroot because I can't drive like this. It's a beetroot

02:26I

02:41Keep hitting myself and I want to cry

02:56I'm just tired