Living with Tourette's

I have Tourette's Syndrome . That is a simple fact. What's not a simple thing is living with Tourette's. It made college life for me hard. I was afraid to set in a class room full of people. I have both and oral and a physical. The physical are not quite so bad sometimes, but the oral is ALWAYS bad, even when it's not. Nothing makes you feel like a fool quite like setting in the middle of a lit class and all of a sudden you go "UNNNHNNA" really loud, and than everyone looks at you like you are crazy and moves away from you. Though to make this a bit easier on myself, and so that my professors don't think I am trying to be disruptive, I have started telling them the first day of class that I have Tourette's.

I will say though, that having Tourette's is not all bad. My friends think my tics are funny. Yes, if people I don't know laugh at my Tourette's I feel upset or get pissed, but my friends, they make me feel like my Tourette's makes me special, and they show me why it's funny. Some times I make really funny sounds, like one time, I went "OMMMM NOMMMMM NOMMMM" and sometimes my physical tics make it look like I am dancing.

Well, that is the just of it. If you have any questions, ask me on my tumbler :)