Difficulties of Teenage Life

Being a teen is hard when your brain functions normally. Its hell when you jerk your head in random directions and look like you're sneezing ever 20 seconds or so. As much as I love to inform people about the reality of Tourette's, its very stressful to explain it in terms of my existence. I've started to develop echolalia and palilalia, which makes me appear rude to people who dont realize I have TS. Another thing that people dont seem to often understand is that tics are painful and exhausting. Usually, before a tic, I feel a sensation almost like a burning in the muscle that is going to move. Other times, its a painful tension in those muscles. Occasionally, my tics will cause me to hit something, such as yesterday, when my head jerked back so hard I hit my head on the back of the chair I was sitting in. Thank the lord for tsa-usa.org! It makes me feel normal.