Tourettes and Dating

For Tourettes Awareness Month Jonah asks people on youtube how they think severe impacts dating and relationships.

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• Jonah Torn
• severe Tourettes
• Tics
• random wisdom
• video blog
• poet guy
• Disability

[DanielPowell357]

I have Tourette's pretty mildly in comparison, But do you experience things like your head constantly wanting to turn to one side while trying to sleep, or you can get comfortable unless you are straining your neck muscles to an awkward position? My left arm flails wildly and my head jerks to each and every way. I would very much appreciate your input.

[JonahTorn]

@DanielPowell357 I have had those tics. I also have a video of me trying to sleep while having tics. However do not be surprised if your tics change, stop at new times and even allow you to sleep and then change again. Tourettes changes and stays the same with some tics as apposed to others.

[4Brownie4]

Well mate that seems fucked up to deal with. Good luck and apart from the tics its clear you are a nice person, just sayin som words of confidence havea good life.

[JonahTorn]

@4Brownie4 Tourettes could be an advantage when it comes to conveying confidence if that is what people are attracted to, because people might think that confidence despite tics is remarkable and therefor very noticeable.

I would have to find someone less confident than myself who has tics in order to compare notes.

[WhoisJacqueFresco]

BTW once the video is done loading all the way. Play the video from the beginning.

then

PRESS 7 ON YOUR KEYBOARD WAIT 2 SECONDS THEN PRESS 1.

MAKE SURE YOU PRESS THE NUMBERS ABOVE THE LETTERS OK.

[sylar1989]

@kr8or sometimes certain words or sounds can set off a tick, doctors say not to try and stop a tick when it comes because it can make it worse, if thats wat u mean?

[JonahTorn]

@fautheral What are you saying is fake?

[shawnmariajones]

I have panic attacks incase some people don't know what those are, you feel scared and sometimes I feel like I can't breath. My doctor has me on medicine to control the attacks, is their any medicine that can calm down the tourettes that you have? I can tell you a story before I got on the right medicine my wife and I went out and all of a sudden I started to panic, people thought I was crazy. They didn't understand what I was going threw, my cop friend new what was going on.

[RosiePosieXxXx]

i think i could manage to , its not like people with disorders arnt humans :) there just the same and most of the are ver nice people :P

[passionatewolfsong]

My boyfriend has tourettes. It doesn't bother me, personally I like dating people with flaws because it gives them a lot of character. I like him for who he is, and I'm not like the rest of the shallow girls at school who would just judge before getting to know someone.

[sylar1989]

@kr8or i find that when im relaxed and comfortable just haning out with friends i dont tic as much.

[sylar1989]

@kr8or some times they r random sounds and sometimes there copyed sounds 4 example if some1 turns a light on or off i copy the click sound. tourettes comes in all different types so i wouldnt know, the best way is to ignore it and try not to draw any attention to it most people that have touretts prefer to just let the tics happen and ignore them instead of every 1 having to tip toe around it not saying certain words or sounds they feel much more comfortable.

[kr8or]

@sylar1989 ah ok, well ya that was what i was wondering, also for example if we are hanging out, is there some words and sounds i can avoid to not cause a tic, or its just unkown sounds ?