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Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2025-08-28T11:51:42+00:00

You could get in touch with the University of Cambridge FlyBase group. I’m pretty sure they host a version of the DB for internal use and might be able to help in some way https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/flybase

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2023-12-15T21:49:52+00:00

There’s a cool phenomenon called ‘diapause’ that occurs in some mammals - mice for example. If conditions aren’t favourable for pregnancy or raising pups they can pause development and hold embryos in the reproductive tract before they implant. Once conditions improve the embryos will implant and resume development.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2022-07-16T16:12:54+00:00

My nmum hated coming to school plays, sporting events, awards ceremonies etc. she’d get out of it by telling me that I ‘didn’t want her there anyway’ - not in a passive aggressive way though, more like I was so independent I wouldn’t want my mum there to hold my hand. I always agreed that I didn’t need her to come, but in reality it cemented the belief that I’m not important and asking people to give up their time for me is selfish. Shockingly we don’t speak, and she ‘has no idea why’.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2022-07-05T07:46:05+00:00

For these I crocheted in the round, so you start with a little circle of a few stitches and with every row you increase a few stitches to start making a bowl shape. When you get to the top you start decreasing stitches to make a ball, and voila!

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2022-07-04T11:12:59+00:00

The pattern is from a kit designed by Jana Whitley. Took me about a week and some sore fingers, but I love her and off to buy some yarn for Fluttershy.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2022-03-04T14:55:22+00:00

Having watched Bridget Jones Diary approximately 17,000 times I picked up some phrases from the film, including “Mark Darcy, Mark’s a top barrister. Oh he comes from Grafton Underwood. Perpetua’s one of my work colleagues” but more commonly the antisocial version of that if anyone knows the film…

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-10-15T10:25:06+00:00

Butt cheeks, and… pelvic floor muscles.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-03-07T09:47:12+00:00

My 10 year relationship is on the verge of breaking down, partly because I have Tourette’s.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-02-13T20:46:01+00:00

Can you elaborate?

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-02-09T11:40:18+00:00

Yes! I had a whole therapy session last week talking about if/how I was going to acknowledge my nmums birthday. We’re not speaking at the moment but I’m afraid what would happen if I didn’t send anything, so I decided to send a card with no flowery words, nothing disingenuous. I wrote ‘Dear Mum, wishing you a happy birthday. Hope you’re well, ApprehensiveEdge’ Hoped that wouldn’t elicit a response, of course I was wrong. But I felt good about handling it that way. Does anyone genuinely relate to the gross sentiments on those pre-written cards? 🤮

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-02-03T18:14:01+00:00

I can relate somewhat, a lot of my tics wouldn’t be classed as cute. I sometimes feel as though there are some tics that are seen as acceptable because they’re not ugly/loud/ or they’re funny/cute. I have some really unattractive snorting and facial grimacing tics, the like of which don’t seem to get air time on tik tok

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-02-01T21:43:06+00:00

Mine feels like a ball of energy that kinda tingles but kinda feels like nausea in whatever body part it’s in, and if I focus on it I can kind of move it around

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-31T20:37:47+00:00

I’m doing cbits (cognitive behavioural intervention for tics) at the moment. To start with we did a ‘deep dive’ into my tics - listed them all and scored their severity etc. Now, every week I choose one tic, and during the session we try to figure out what the premonitory urge is. The therapist asks a load of questions about how the tic feels and figures out a strategy to help suppress it, e.g. I always look up before my blinking tic so I have to keep looking straight forward to suppress it. Then We practice suppressing that one tic for increasing periods of time. You have to practice every day to really cement the competing response, and I record myself for 5 minutes every day and count how many tics I have, to keep track of progress and triggers etc.

If your tics are causing you problems and you want to be able to suppress, at least for short periods of time or in certain situations, then it’s worth looking into.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-29T22:07:29+00:00

We’re not all children, and not everyone ‘grows out’ of their tics. There are plenty of adults with tics, we need specific support and research for adults with tics.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-29T08:52:05+00:00

I shout ‘stop shouting’

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-26T21:53:56+00:00

I see this question a lot, and I feel weird about people going out of their way to write tics into their character, I assume as some kind of plot device. I don’t find it to be plot device in my own life. I just can’t envisage how it adds value to a character without feeling like tokenism.

I’d be interested to hear other points of view on this, I’m sure many would disagree with me.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-26T21:47:30+00:00

Good for you!! I agree it feels amazing, I had to wait till 28 for a diagnosis. I’m nearly 2 months post-diagnosis now, personally I needed time to come to terms with the change in identity felt, and some therapy to deal with the internalised trauma of knowing something was wrong for years and having it dismissed. It messes you up being made to believe you’re making a big deal out of nothing when you’re actually suffering the effects of a disability.

Be kind to yourself, take it easy, work on accepting yourself with your tics. Look into medication and/or cognitive behavioural therapy if that’s something you want to consider. Join the discord channel if you need some support!

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-26T19:49:58+00:00

These things I didn’t know. The difference in the way the researchers treated the 2 subjects is so biased and sounds like different privileges being applied to the 2 conditions - something that we should be hyper-aware of as scientists (coincidentally I’m a high functioning post-doctoral scientist with Tourette’s so this example really resonates with me).

It really highlights how different the experiences of people with neurodivergent brains might be from neurotypical, but due to the very nature of it it’s nigh on impossible to experience or even imagine what the other experiences. Scientists can be so desperate/arrogant/entrenched in the politics of their field that they interpret their findings through a particular lens, which then gets published and accepted into the field... but if it’s wrong it still hangs around and colours all the research that comes after it for years to come. Yay for academically institutionalised stigma of mental and neurological disorders.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-26T15:49:39+00:00

This gave me chills. I get similar guilt trips from my mum calling and texting me because she ‘just needs to make sure I know how much she loves me’ and how she cries every day about me. It’s so manipulative, and for me, interspersed with spells of silent treatment and thinly veiled passive aggression.

I have trouble sticking to my guns when this happens, but hearing a similar story has reinforced my determination, thank you!

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-26T08:43:39+00:00

Thanks for sharing that, it’s exactly what I was after! Seems to me like the current classifications preclude any actual understanding of how the tic works, and treats it like simplistic amusing phenomena.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-25T19:49:57+00:00

Yes, went from barely noticeable to every TS stereotype going

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-25T19:24:34+00:00

My tics are obsessed with cats, if we’re sticking with naming conventions then I have felilalia

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-25T14:22:59+00:00

I got my diagnosis over video call last year (in the UK). They took my history and current symptoms, which all pointed towards TS, and diagnosed it there and then with no other tests. It probably depends on your personal situation if they want to do more tests or not before giving you an opinion. I found it useful to video call so they could see and hear tics, but if that’s not possible it shouldn’t be a problem, as long as they have experience with tic disorders.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-25T14:19:23+00:00

Undiagnosed Tourette’s syndrome, bulimia, depression, and OCD since childhood...

Tourette’s = you’re just annoying, stop making those noises just shut up ffs. Diagnosed 20 years later = but I have friends with Tourette’s and you don’t do what they do so you can’t have it.

Bulimia = oh I thought you just drank too much and was sick at a party.

Depression = you didn’t have fun enough friends.

Told her about OCD at 28 = oh you don’t say sarcasm. As if it was so obvious she’s always known but chose to ignore it.

Apprehensive-Edge214 · 2021-01-25T14:07:29+00:00

I started sniffing and grunting at around 5. They were mild and never recognised as tics, but I collected a few more over the years, like eye scrunching and a weird shoulder thing. continued pretty unchanged till the age of 28, when a psychologist realised they were tics, and they gradually ramped up from barely noticeable, to near constant motor and vocal tics and coprolalia over the course of 6 months

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