Tics: Just Say "You're A Pussy."

Especially when I was younger I always wondered how other people could be so calm. When I watched them doing things they never had to tic like I had to. And I envied them so bad. I didn't understand why I could never be so calm.

Beverly, pointing to Bill, who’s holding hands with Stan: This is my boyfriend, Bill, and this is his boyfriend, Stan. 

So is no one going to acknowledge the existence of this :

Hi! I’m writing a fanfic connected to a movie with a lead character who has Tourette’s, and I was hoping you, or some of your followers could help me. As I’ll be writing from the POV of the lead I was hoping someone who actually knows what it’s like to live with Tourette’s and tics could help me. This way I can be accurate and also avoid being offensive! Some help would be great, either way thank you very much and I hope you have a wonderful day!!

Hey there! I would love to give you my personal insights. Something to keep in mind though; People with Tourette’s Syndrome honestly experience the condition in their own unique way, as is the case with all neurological disorders. Regardless, here’s my tea.

Tourette’s Syndrome has and always will unequivocally define who I am. Everywhere I go, every time I speak, people know that I am not normal. My tics range from physical to motor, and some days I drop tics and some days I pick new ones up. I also have a sub-diagnosis of Tourettes called “Echolalia”, where I will HEAR or READ a certain passage of words that sound satisfying to me and I’ll repeat them to myself. I often play a card game called “Magic: The Gathering” with my best friends and you can imagine how easy I am to beat as I’m sitting there reading my cards damn near OUT LOUD to my opponents as we’re all trying to outplay one another. Lmao

The most misunderstood thing about Tourettes is that people assume it’s literally UNCONTROLLABLE. Like our brains are sending out these random messages to our mouths and hands to do these random carnival acts and that we have no control over it; that’s not true. Our tics are in fact URGES to do certain things. When I squint my eyes and tense my neck up, it was because my Tourette’s caused me to have the URGE to do it. Tourettes Syndrome and OCD are so heavily tied together. My tics are these compulsive thoughts that come to me every 5 seconds and I succumb to them because I know the feeling will return in literaly 5 more seconds.

This is, in my opinion, the hardest part about tics. We KNOW that with the right mindset and focus, we can hold them in. We can control them. The urge literally feels like scratching an itch. You’ve been scratching your arm anytime it itches your whole life, right? We’ve been having the urge to tic our whole life - after a while, we just stop giving a fuck and do it. We consent to the urges and tic. I remember when I was bullied in elementary school, that’s when I would be the most upset... Cause i knew I could avoid the confrontation had I just held them in. “Why didn’t i just hold them in for a little bit? I wouldn’t have been made fun of...” I now understand that young kids are just ignorant and don’t understand. I dont get bullied anymore for my tics, just stared at condescendingly.

Speaking on behalf of all people with Tourette’s, we just want to be understood. We want people to understand that our tics aren’t too far from being relatable - imagine having to burp every 5 seconds, and that’s pretty much what it feels like. You can hold the burp in, or you can let it loose. Once you let it loose though, be ready for people to stare at you as they try to figure out what mindset you’re in. I really hope you can sift through this answer and find some things you can use... Like I said, EVERY person with Tourettes experiences it differently. It’s like depression or anxiety, it strikes randomly and has varying severity. If I were you, I would try to take this knowledge of tics and try to relate it to the character you’re posing as, and maybe you can use preexisting knowledge of psychology to find out the mindset of the character you’re writing as. Thanks for approaching me in a very transperant way as well, genuinely being asked about my tics always excites me because it’s nice to have the ability to talk about them instead of being stared at BECAUSE of them.

oh the butterfly clip 😔

This is one of the funniest bnha things I've seen because it's TRUE

If they had American names

I hate how the same people who recognise that gods are multi-dimensional proceed to act like Dionysus is this 1 dimensional party god and if you don’t fit the bill, you shouldn’t be worshipping him. 

Like Ah Yes, I guess his healing aspects, his power over nature and vegetation, him being the god of fruit, the fact that he can be interpreted as asexual, etc etc just don’t fuckin exist 

I don’t know who is more aggressively bi-sexual is it ‘Harry all boys are handsome Potter’ or is it Ginny literally in love with Luna Lovegood Weasley ?? 

How could anyone ever mistake these two bi messes for being straight??