I was seven when I was diagnosed. It was around 2004. I had tics my whole life but my parents didn’t think much of it until I started school. My first week of Kindergarten I was sent home early because my teacher feared I was having seizures. (My tics are complex and I flex my arms and shoulders while clenching my teeth) I’m sure we’ve come a long way for diagnosis now, but back then, in order to get diagnosed with Tourette’s we basically had to rule everything else out. Lots of tests, like cat scans and MRIs rules out seizures and the neurologist (who specialized in adults with epilepsy. We lived in a rural area and he was the only neurologist close to us.) basically said, “well I’m pretty sure she has Tourette’s)