My Tourettes Story - Shayn

My name is Shayn, I'm 19 years old, and I live with an adult onset tic disorder that started when I was 18.
This is my story, I hope to spread awareness about tic disorders, and I also hope to inspire other persons with tourette's syndrome and tic disorders to always be themselves and to stay strong no matter what!

Adult onset tic disorders represent an underrecognised condition that is more common than generally appreciated or reported.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1736950/

PS- This is my very first YouTube video, IsThisTourettes was really nice & helped me learn how to make it!

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• tourette syndrome
• adult onset
• tics
• tic disorders
• movement disorders
• story
• ticcing
• tourettes
• twitch
• tourettes guy

[Shauly10101]

What happens when u hold it in?

[shaynapulley]

@Shauly10101 other tics happen (hold in a vocal, get more motor tics- or hold in a motor tic, get more vocal tics) or when I can finally relax and stop holding it my body will explode into lots of "backed up" tics

[flobunny1]

I have Tourettes too.

[shaynapulley]

@flobunny1 just keep ticcin' :)

[IsThisTourettes]

Awesome video!!!!!!!!!

[AirPlanes933]

I'm going through the same Twitching thing everyday and i went to a Doctor about it and i would make weird sounds but the sounds went away now , and they said i would grow out of it(the twitching , not sounds) , but it started in 4th grade and now i'm in 7th grade .. -_-" So how long did the ticks last for you then ?

[slash17d]

It's kus your a Jew.

[phoen1xvine]

I have MS (multiple sclerosis) and I have a movement disorder but it is not tourettes although they say it is very simalair because we have tics also. I was diagnosed in 2003. You are very brave in recording these videos!

[momowoop]

I lives with tics all my life, since i was a young girl. I hate how people judge but i've learnd to control. Now all i suffer with is a twitch and a minor noise :)

[TheNakedWombat]

Good to see you cope with your TS. I personally keep my membership with Toastmasters to manage my TS.

[shaynapulley]

@purpleloover originally they did, and I saw a lot of psychologists/psychiatrists and they all referred me to a neurologist who then referred me to a Tourette specialist. It was scary because even I believed that the tics would go away in a matter of weeks, but it has now been over 2 years and I just take things in stride now. they're a part of me and my life and they don't stop me from living! :)