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.

Tourette's--it sucks!

So today I went to the doctor. Got new anxiety medication dosages and all that jazz. And we talked about my tics. There are so many of them I can't even count. Head jerking, hand wringing, snapping, shaking, whimpering, lip biting, jaw clenching, the list goes on and on and on. But at this point, I  only have an 85% diagnoses. 85% sure I have fairly severe Tourette's Syndrome. Noone understands. Why is it that everyone thinks that part of having Tourette's is yelling swear words? And if you dont do that, well, obviously you dont have it. ITS SO FRUSTRATING! Anyone else want to rant about it?