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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???

As of today I have developed a new tic. Which is where I say scone like a ghost if that makes any sense. It’s like skhoneeeee if we’re trying to pronounce it phonetically

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

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)

Shoutout to the ones with Tourette's Syndrome.

To the ones with Chronic (Persistent) Vocal/Motor tic disorder.

To the ones with transient/provisional tic disorder.

Shoutout to the ones with anxiety tics.

Shoutout to the ones who don't know what causes their tics.

Shoutout to the ones who's tics get triggered by things like noises, cold, etc.

Shoutout to the ones with Tourettic OCD.

Shoutout to the ones with tics that look like stimming.

Shoutout to the ones who hates their tics.

To the ones who don't mind their tics.

Shoutout to the ones who suffer ableism everyday because of their tics.

To the ones who have supportive family and friends.

To the ones who got bullied because of their tics.

Shoutout to the ones with ''ugly'' tics.

To the ones with ''cute'' tics.

Shoutout to the ones with simple tics.

To the ones with complex tics.

Shoutout to the ones with motor tics.

To the ones with vocal tics.

To the ones with both.

Shoutout to the ones who tics everyday.

To the ones who only tics in specific scenarios

Shoutout to my people with tics.

When you're nervous about ticcing in public but being nervous makes your tics worse so you tic more which makes you more nervous and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Am semiverbal, & also experience situational mutism/speech loss/shutdown thingy sometimes. Agree. They are 2 different things.

Also I can experience additional speech issues due to breathing tics & breathing issues.

There are a bunch of experiences related to speech being hard; and they are different experiences which deserve different names.

Before describing being semi verbal if you are fully verbal:

Hate when people try to describe being semi verbal as just "its when you have speech loss sometimes! :) " no , semi verbal isn't "sometimes speech loss" other wise it would just be "speech loss episode " or something , no semi verbal is a permanent state , semi verbal is more like : have difficulty specking not the way people seem to think . Easiest explanation is : unreliable speech all the time , I can talk but its hard for me , its more than just "speech loss sometimes" its like need words but the thought of the word won't form and I feel like my mouth is wired shut like forcing it to open to make a word. I just seen this description of it and please stop trying to simplify being semi verbal when you aren't and are actually describing it incorrectly as just "losing speech" . Being semi verbal doesn't equal "just speech loss" . Even when I do talk I have a very specific way of talking , a bit hard to explain but a lot of pauses obvious struggling , I've seen a youtuber that is also semi verbal and I talk like them more or less