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when you meet a Touretter:
- don’t stare
- don’t laugh AT us
- do NOT suggest tics to us (not even if you came from the same zygote) if that isn’t something we’ve explicitly permitted. can be dangerous or distressing.
#tourettesliving #tourettes
when you meet a Touretter:- don’t stare
- don’t laugh AT us
- do NOT suggest tics to us (not even if you came from the same zygote) if that isn’t something we’ve explicitly permitted. can be dangerous or distressing.
#tourettesliving #tourettes
- don’t get upset about your kids hearing us swear if we’re one of the 10% who do have coprolalia (obscene vocal tics) or copropraxia (obscene gestures.
ya kids will survive, ma dude. i promise.
#tourettesliving #tourettes
ya kids will survive, ma dude. i promise.
#tourettesliving #tourettes
- don’t finish our sentences. if you’re not ND & the building isn’t burning down (even then, try) wait it out. we deserve time to speak/Sign/type
#tourettesliving #tourettes
#tourettesliving #tourettes
- don’t shout at us or mock us.
(literally not going to get us to stop; it’ll very likely make or tics more intense & frequent.)
(plus if ya do, you’re a bit of a ableist sh^tbag tbqh)
#tourettesliving #tourettes
(literally not going to get us to stop; it’ll very likely make or tics more intense & frequent.)
(plus if ya do, you’re a bit of a ableist sh^tbag tbqh)
#tourettesliving #tourettes
- don’t invalidate our use of mobility aids in relation to our Tourette’s.
wheelchairs & walking sticks etc make some of our lives more liveable
& it’s none of your damn business why if we don’t want to explain
#tourettesliving #tourettes
wheelchairs & walking sticks etc make some of our lives more liveable
& it’s none of your damn business why if we don’t want to explain
#tourettesliving #tourettes
- do feel free to ask reasonable questions (but don’t expect us to be your Tourette’s encyclopædia).
- do smile at us, if that’s your kind of thing, when you notice us in public. a simple smile lets me know that at least one person doesn’t hate me.
#tourettesliving #tourettes
- do smile at us, if that’s your kind of thing, when you notice us in public. a simple smile lets me know that at least one person doesn’t hate me.
#tourettesliving #tourettes
- do stick up for us if ppl are giving us a hard time.
if anyone on my train one particularly awful time had defended me, i don’t think i’d still be having flashbacks & shaking about the incident
#tourettesliving #tourettes
if anyone on my train one particularly awful time had defended me, i don’t think i’d still be having flashbacks & shaking about the incident
#tourettesliving #tourettes
- do take the time to engage with the fact that all of these traits are possible Touretter traits
(but also could be due to other neurotypes and conditions):
#tourettesliving #tourettes
(but also could be due to other neurotypes and conditions):
#tourettesliving #tourettes
repeating words spoken by self (palilalia) or others (echolalia); repeatedly asking the same questionscoprolalia (repeatedly speaking obscenities) copropraxia (repeatedly making obscene gestures)#tourettesliving #tourettes
