TheTiccersTimes

Hi, my name is Beth and I am neurodiverse. Today I am going to tell my tourettes diagnosis story. My tourettes journey began a lot earlier than I was aware of it. The first time I was aware of my tics, even though I did not know what they were back then, was when people would tell me off for rolling my eyes at them. I could not control it.This was when I was around six. There had been signs even before that with constant coughing, jerky movements and very loud sneezes when I didn't need to sneeze. Then I had hiccups constantly that turned out to be tics. It was funny odd and concidental that it was hiccups that made me realise I had tourettes because one of my friends who had hiccups just like me had just been diagnosed with tourettes syndrome when my hiccups became more constant. But I thought my hiccups were different from my friends until they evolved into shrieks and screams. It was then I realised that I had tourette syndrome. I struggled with this as my friend already had it ...