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Does anyone else have tics whenever they cringe? Like I'll just be chilling the *flashback to that one conversation in highschool * and I start twitching

Why does someone else ticking cause me to tic more? Or even just by thinking about ticking I end up ticking more, wtf is up with that shit???

Yall ever just realized that you are technically disabled?

Like, I have an invisible disability, but I’ve never actually thought of myself as disabled until now, yk?

OMG I LOVE IT

Drew my tourettes bunny from PlushieDreadfuls !

I love this bunny....they make me a little happier despite living with a very shitty condition that makes me feel very shitty a lot of the time. Also they are super duper soft and I'm just so in love with their color scheme and vibes.

I tried to showcase some of my specific tics, being a head and shoulder jerk, the arm to their chest is supposed to be like they are hitting themself with it,aswell as the facial tic they come with (although very stylized,of course.) I also made it so one of their ears is a bit jerked up!

Tourettes bunny how I love you...

This is the next day for the disability pride boogaloo by @thepromptfoundry!! It was “autonomy”! Took some inspiration from the puppet boy audio from TikTok lol. This mainly catered to my tics but feel free to interpret how you wish!!!

Puppet Girl

Dance dance dance

Sway sway sway

Do as they wish

Move as they wish

You are not allowed

To have your own moves

You are a puppet, girl

you move when they want to

Day 10 of @thepromptfoundry disability boogaloo!! Today it’s invisible disability. Mainly talking about my tics again :p but idc how you interpret any of my poems!!

No matter what you do

I’m invisible to the rest

Yet annoying to you

I won’t go away

No matter what you do

I’m always there

Stuck in the shadows

Yet never there

When you say “appear”

I am apart of you

No matter what you do

You laid in bed, your phone on the pillow behind you. Songs that made your brain fuzzy blared in the background. Your stomach felt sick and your throat felt guilty. What for? Unsure. You just felt unwell and couldn’t handle anything right now. The bedroom light was off and the ceiling fan was on medium. You shivered in the cold, but the blanket was too hot and heavy to wear. Your tics had been going for a while, the sudden movements not benefiting your stomach. Maybe you felt hungry, but eating or drinking anything would have been too filling.

The bed creaked as another body crawled on top of the covers with you. A warm arm snaked around your waist, but no chest met your back. They must have known that would have made it too hot. The contact didn’t stop your tics, but they didn’t say anything about it, which was nice.

You didn’t want to go to sleep. If you fell asleep, you would lose time of day to do stuff. But if you stayed awake any longer, you wouldn’t be able to sleep for what felt like years. They moved your phone closer to you on the pillow, but turned the volume down slightly. This helped, allowing you to slowly drift off to sleep. For once you didn’t care that you were the first to fall asleep.

Any character imagine you want ✨

This is just describing how I feel rn lmao 🫤

Btw if you don’t know what tics mean, I’m referring to a tic disorder

Thing I find really weird about having Tourette’s is that sometimes I can go almost a whole day without a tic but then something random will happen or I’ll hear something that resembles a tic and my brain just goes “OH SH*T THATS RIGHT YOU HAVE TOURETTES! I ALMOST FORGOT” and then I’ll start ticking the rest of the day..

Random headcannon time- I’m coming out of the wood work for this and let’s pretend that I haven’t been inactive for months. But let’s talk about my boy Steve.

Now as an individual who struggles with this, I am kind of shoving some things on this character and I don’t care.

Let’s talk about Steve having tics. He’s had head trauma and because of that he has developed Tourettes. He doesn’t even realize he has tics until they get worst after season four. Before he would just whistle, click his tongue, snap his fingers and he’s never paid attention to it. He’s grown used to it that he doesn’t even think that much about it.

Now post season four, he now can’t get the uncomfortable feeling in the back of his neck. It’s similar to an itch that won’t stop bothering him unless he’s doing a certain movement. (Which is continuously turning his head to the right, which can be very annoying and causes whiplash for him very easily.)

He’s also started to notice his triggers, the lack of sleep is a huge one. But he’s also started to notice that a lot of the poppy songs he used to listen to has random noises that can trigger some of his tics if he’s having a bad day. (Normal days his music helps a lot)

But I was thinking he tried to get into more musics and find something that doesn’t trigger it so much, and shockingly solo Ozzy is something that doesn’t set it off (with some songs triggering it) and he just bonds with Eddie over looking for music. Because let’s be honest, Eddie is most likely really hyper fixated on music.

Anywho that was just a small idea, I might elaborate more if anyone wants but that was all I had for now ✌️

New favorite thing is drawing Camilo with my stims and tics, aka projecting

Head twitches and hand shakes are common stims and tics for me

i think i forget sometimes that not everyone tics. not everyone even knows what tics are or that you can’t always suppress/mask them.

i’ve been having a huge spike of them recently (probably due to graduation being around the corner) and i’m constantly making grunts and noises. they are annoying, they do hurt my throat, i do get stuck doing them until they ‘feel right’ and finally i’m set free of a loop.

but the child i’m babysitting and my brother asked why i keep making noises. i hadn’t realized i must’ve been making them. but i got flustered; how do i describe to these kids the concept of nearly not being able to control your own body sometimes? being stuck repeating the same tic until your brain thinks it’s okay to stop?

* i’d qualify for provisional tic disorder, but i’ve never been diagnosed bc it wasn’t ‘impeding my life.’ my pediatrician actually told us that if they get worse to tell her/get help on it. i was meant to get diagnosed for it bc it was bothering me but yk lol

Recently, I said "I'm not superstitious, I just have OCD, which is basically the same thing." Ever since then, my compulsions have only reinforced that idea.

I can't pick up coins heads-down. I literally make other people flip them over for me, or I flip them myself for the next person.

I never ever step on the cracks or seams in pavement.

I take a certain amount of steps per slab of concrete in pavement. Four steps before reaching over the seam. This is surprisingly stressful. I take tiny steps to meet the quota or overreach my gait to get past the slab (sometimes I can't reach and I step on the seam and I CRINGE)

Other times, I feel sudden fear about myself. All these sudden check-ins about if I've suddenly turned into some horrible monster. Like I have to make sure I'm not attracted to somebody I shouldn't be. Never have, never will, but I'm still struck with a sudden panic. Am I a good person? Does everybody hate me? What time is it??? Am I late????? I can't be late!!!!!

The latter leads into something I call "Waiting Mode" or "Anticipatory Paralysis." I'm so afraid of being late that I can't do anything in the HOURS before a scheduled event.

Even the medicine I take has to be in a specific count. Nine pills, so I can count them one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three. I used to ration my medicine in different dosages so that I'd still take the correct amount but in a different number of pills.

I have tics, and I have to repeat them until it feels right, even if those tics involve me pulling my hair or knocking against the side of my head. Certain noises have to be done over and over despite the fact that it didn't really matter in order to "satisfy" the tic's urge.

I would also like to mention that I've been mistreated over my tics, and I feel the need to apologize for something I can't control. This amount of shame over my conditions is only worsened by the prolonged repetitions.

People calling themselves OCD when they're super neat always irked me. It makes me feel like I'm not good enough for the diagnosis, because they assume I must be super duper clean even though everything is a mess. I feel really ashamed of being messy, and it hurts a lot when people with my condition are seen as type-A neatfreaks with their life in pristine order.

This comic was really relieving to read, knowing that I'm not the only one feeling wronged by the outward portrayal.

Greetings bugs and worms!

This comic is a little different than what I usually do but I worked real hard on it—Maybe I'll make more infographic stuff in the future this ended up being fun. Hope you learned something new :)

If you are still curious and want to learn more about OCD, you can visit the International OCD Foundation's website. I also recommend this amazing TED ED video "Starving The Monster", which was my first introduction to the disorder and this video by John Green about his own experience with OCD.

The IOCDF's website can also help you find support groups, therapy, and has lots of online guides and resources as well if you or a loved one is struggling with the disorder. It is very comprehensive!

Reblog to teach your followers about OCD

(But also not reblogging doesn't make you evil, silly goose)

Help me re-write correctly

So, My GF and I seemed to have accidentally given a Character Ticks and we didnt notice, now, before we put him in a Book, so Everybody who has Ticks, Can You Tell me what i should avoid while Writing and What i should definitly Include, etc.?

(I didnt want to rely on Google Research alone and thought asking People would probably be the best)

Just realized the thing that was very much a disability is actually a disability and not a mental illness

I just realized it's disability pride month so I'm gonna talk about mine ^^

I am a diagnosed autistic person and have diagnosed ADHD. Throughout my life I've struggled with various things. When I was little, I had no filter. I would talk to anyone and everyone (to the point my daycare was worried). After the *Big C* happened, I became quiet and closed off to others. For around a year, I was alone. But then I was put with my best friend in class and then a few years later, I'm here ^^ eventually my mom noticed me stimming and ticcing (will talk about later) a lot. Along with the fact that I refuse to eat any fruit or touch various things. Eventually I had brought it up to my therapist who had thought I was autistic. I got tested and am now diagnosed.

now onto (technically) undiagnosed things, tics. I...don't know why I have tics. They just kinda started. They usually happen due to extreme temperatures or thinking about tics in general. For example, I've had to stop multiple times writing this due to tics and since it feels like a million degrees in my room and I insist on having a thick blanket, I was ticking earlier. Most of my tics will be physical (hitting my head/chest, my hands jerking around, my head jerking to the side, etc.) but I will occasionally get verbal ones.

Happy disability pride month! :D

i just threw my phone halfway across a bloody room, and my dad just sighed and looked away

something happened and im really sad and also happy.

happy chinese new year to all, but YOU GOTTA READ THIS.

for more than a year (3 yrs almost), i’ve done a self diagnosis on myself with spd (sensory processing disorder) and adhd (few others too)

the man took an hour late to arrive but LOL

went to this place and told the man about how i’ve been bullied and what was going on. so i obviously didn’t say i was gay but my mom did bring up how somebody was gay and was bullying me as a gay person (smart man knew i was gay from how I went 😝✌️ along with saying the word “gay” but he didn’t make it obvious until my mom looked away and he smiled and mouthed “yes good im proud for you”).

since i get extremely uncomfortable when they kept talking about my ASD so then i felt like crying cause yk mental health issues + illnesses, etc shit being exposed and almost cried (they never knew bc i never made it obvious but my eyes watered under my hoodie), and yk I felt really really sad than my mood was today.

THEN THE BIG NEWS CAME.

since you never knew i was neurodivergent, i’m gonna let you know.

i didn’t know HALF of what he said because he spoke fast but

i managed to catch half (idk if half atp cause he got LOADS of diagnosis for me but it was too much and he spoke really really fast)

HE WAS FRIENDLY BUT

i FUCKING KNEW. that the spd was right. I WASNT SURE BUT HE SAID I HAVE IT. YESSS A REAL DIAGNOSIS.

he said im diagnosed with asd, adhd, spd (sensory processing disorder), tics (not like tourettes but he did say something WILL cause me to tic but it’s only anxiety that will cause it a few times but if it gets worse, i must tell him) + my anxiety will cause me to tic (like shivering and form different tics but its not like tourettes that people ACTUALLY have).

he also said my auditory sensory processing disorder as well (+ with sensory processing too), he said i had something sensitivity (idk what it was because he spoke REALLY fast) but i think he said sensory or sensitivity disorder (if you knew what it’s called, PLEASE lemme know).

stuttering disorder + high functioning on asd + low functioning on adhd (lemme know if functioning is out of date or not) and some other stuff.

BUT I GOT AN OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS GUYSSSSS

i’ve tried to find the “congratulations on the neurodivergency cake” but I found this.

congratulations to me on my further neurodivergent diagnosis :))

You know that moment when you see someone you think is cute and you wish you could just go up to them and start a conversation or do something cool but instead you know you'll probably end up ticing and they will think something wrong with you and that you're insane so you don't do anything because you know it's inevitable that they won't like you because they will get the wrong impression with you start twitching or making weird noises? Yeah me neither, that would really suck

I patiently await the day when I meet another with tourettes and our tics just bounce off each other and its going to be the best

another vent ig

I just feel so bad about being insecure about my own emotions and feelings. I feel so invalidated with my issues but at the same time I have people who have my back. I wish I could say I have ADHD and asd because of my struggles but I can't or dare because I'm not being listened to and my anxiety just won't allow me to do that and push for a diagnosis. I'm lucky 'cause I am getting help for my anxiety and depression and possibly we're looking further into ADHD and asd but i feel like i'm not being listened to. Same with agoraphobia, i know i have it but i just cannot admit it to myself 'cause an outsider/professional has not told me I have it. I fit into the diagnostic criteria of TS but i don't have a diagnosis 'cause no one listens. Frustration is real :(