Tourette’s
Learn the answers to commonly asked questions through a broad range of perspectives!
What is it like for you to be a neurodivergent person? In your personal life? At school? At work?
"…the main tics that I do constantly, all day long, are like, I wiggle my ear back and forth and raise my eyebrow and click my jaw ... and flex my arm here and flex this arm, flex these muscles. These are things you would never notice if you're just having a conversation with me, but for me, they're very exhausting.” -Billie Eilish [Harper’s Bazaar]
“Sometimes it’s quite uncomfortable … but it comes and goes.” -Lewis Capaldi [Rolling Stone]
“The worst thing about it is when I’m excited I get it, when I’m stressed, I get it, when I’m happy I get it. It happens all the time. Some days it’s more painful than others and some days it’s less painful.” -Lewis Capaldi [Rolling Stone]
Have you faced misunderstandings from others? What were those misunderstandings?
"It's really weird, I haven't talked about it at all. The most common way that people react is they laugh because they think I'm trying to be funny," she continued. "They think I'm [ticcing] as a funny move. And so they go, 'Ha.' And I'm always left incredibly offended by that. Or they go 'What?' And then I go, 'I have Tourette's.'" - Billie Eilish [Harper’s Bazaar]