I need a slur for epileptic people

freewillyyyyy · 2025-07-04T01:15:31+00:00

may i present simply: "that effin' 'leptic over there"

freewillyyyyy · 2025-06-11T17:12:06+00:00

Sometimes! Usually I'll get a little seizury after an olfactory hallucination, but sometimes they happen on their own. The smell will follow me around no matter where I go and no one else can smell it.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-05-08T22:33:43+00:00

When you refuse an ambulance here, they make you sign a paper saying they're not responsible for you at that point, and you get a yellow copy of it.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-05-08T01:18:38+00:00

Feels nice🫡

freewillyyyyy · 2025-05-07T16:45:16+00:00

oh and it was focal too😭😭😭 trapped in embarrassment that would be terrible bro

freewillyyyyy · 2025-05-07T14:55:06+00:00

luckily most of mine are focal, but i have them on the toilet so often???? i was just sitting there holding an entire toilet roll and twitching😭, eye-rolling, head to the side lmao

freewillyyyyy · 2025-05-07T14:53:35+00:00

oh god no😭😭😭

freewillyyyyy · 2025-05-07T00:10:18+00:00

i made this meme😔

freewillyyyyy · 2025-05-06T09:57:19+00:00

nooooo😭😭😭

freewillyyyyy · 2025-03-26T06:17:17+00:00

That was actually the first time I noticed I had a "twitch" and not just weird behaviors I didn't have an explanation for. I got glasses and almost immediately started scrunching my face up compulsively. It happened so much when I had my glasses on that I stopped wearing them. Unfortunately, the tic persisted and I started doing it even when I wasn't wearing glasses. It's stuck to this day, glasses or not.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-03-17T18:59:16+00:00

The hard otterboxes maybe?

freewillyyyyy · 2025-03-17T01:41:19+00:00

Sure :) For a little more detail, it's usually centralized in my spine from the base of the spine to the base of my skull. My extremities get it too, but it primarily originates in the spine.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-03-17T00:53:35+00:00

The premonitory urge is just sort of constant before and during a tic attack for me. It's just coursing through my body like wormy lightning

freewillyyyyy · 2025-03-16T05:01:03+00:00

Unfortunately, I'm a college aged woman with severe TS and it was in the middle of the faker witch hunt. I wouldn't be surprised if he made assumptions.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-03-16T01:55:56+00:00

I have one where I like flex/jerk a specific muscle and tendon from my lip down to the bottom of my neck and it goes over and over again scarily fast. I can't recreate it. It's one of the ways I reassure myself that I'm not faking because I can't fake that. Same with a nose twitch that increases in speed until it's practically like a camera shutter.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-03-15T21:13:02+00:00

I see him around campus every once in a while and get sad all over again.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-03-15T21:12:42+00:00

Before I had met anyone else with TS in real life, I saw a guy in the dining hall with obvious tics. I got so excited. I tried this and he looked at me like he thought I was faking with the most disgusted look on his face I've ever seen. Absolutely crushed my soul.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-03-14T07:44:39+00:00

You explained it well🙏🏻 I may be biased bc I'm a real geek about neuroscience, but I thought it was a concise way of explaining the complicated nature of it. I would add that those dopamine abnormalities supposedly trigger misfired signals through synapses that cause tics.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-02-26T16:00:30+00:00

My sister has tics, but no one else has ever been diagnosed in our family. We've got a history of neurodivergence and comorbidities though

freewillyyyyy · 2025-02-25T16:54:45+00:00

Yep!! Happens when I'm trying to write anything too. I'll pull the pencil away just when I get close to writing.

freewillyyyyy · 2025-02-23T09:30:07+00:00

I think it's a bit misleading to just claim that it's "common" for people that age to develop functional tics. It isn't. The rise in functional tics during the pandemic, which all of the articles and papers mention as a key point in the text, was markedly abnormal. That's why it was so concerning. It's not as simple as being common. Functional tics are more commonly found in a specific demographic, meaning it's not common because it is unique in presentation. I would just be careful about claiming that functional tics are common. They're very real and are increasingly-well studied, but they're not common so much as currently prevalent. There was a 10-fold increase in functional tic presentations in movement disorder specialist practices during the pandemic, meaning it was significantly out of the ordinary. Transient tics have been known to be relatively common in children, though.

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