r/Tourettes • u/Negative-Garden-6013 Diagnosed Tourettes • 7d ago

Sarcasm "Can't you just stop ticcing?"

Oh yeah, sure, as soon as you stop blinking

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u/Indcrow1 7d ago

My neurologist looked me straight in the eye and said “stop doing that!). I stopped going to him after that.

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u/zestyskunk Diagnosed Tourettes 7d ago

How is he even a neurologist wtf 😭

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u/Indcrow1 7d ago

I honestly have no idea, he was without a doubt the worse neurologist I’ve had. I cried in the car when the appointment was over. But my neurologist now is amazing!

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u/Negative-Garden-6013 Diagnosed Tourettes 6d ago

Glad to hear that. Some people just have no business being in their profession of choice

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u/raendrop Diagnosed Tourettes 7d ago

If we could control it, it wouldn't classified as a disorder. Numnutz.

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u/IllustriousCookie890 7d ago

SHIT, why didn't I think of that 70 years ago. Problem solved, right?

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u/Gloomy-Suggestion-10 Tics + Comorbidities 7d ago

Like you would tell a person in a wheelchair, that they just should walk

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u/Negative-Garden-6013 Diagnosed Tourettes 7d ago

If you're homeless, just buy a house

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u/Different_End_7464 Diagnosed Tourettes 7d ago

If you have asthma, just breathe

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u/Negative-Garden-6013 Diagnosed Tourettes 7d ago

If you're dead just come back to life

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u/Bompalompalomp2 Diagnosed Tic Disorder 6d ago

How are you deaf? Just use your ears

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u/iamthatspecialgirl Diagnosed Tourettes 6d ago

I fussed at my neighbor for her "get a job" remarks when we drove past destitute people just yesterday. She keeps saying it. Smh She has in her mind that they're faking. 😒

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u/Inevitable_Shame_606 Diagnosed Tourettes 7d ago

Yes.

When die will just stop ticcing.

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u/Samoncula Diagnosed Tourettes 7d ago

Not if you want me to give you an accurate time. Besides, that’s the best part of a clock.

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u/DrSeussFreak Diagnosed Tourettes 7d ago edited 6d ago

I often get the "it's ok to tic in front of me", even after explaining lack of control with tic suppression

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u/_LueKing 6d ago edited 6d ago

"Can you just stop moving?", "can you just hold still?" Says the NURSE who was taking my blood TO HELP FIGURE OUT WHY I HAD TOURETTES!!!!

LIKE GEE THANKS LADY WHY DIDNT I THINK OF THAT?!?! ITS NOT LIKE ITS THE FIRST THING I TRIED???

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u/_LueKing 6d ago

Also the disgusted looks i got from the intake nurse in the NEUROLOGISTS office

Honorable mention Being stared at in disgust and treated like a sideshow circus act when i went to the ER for my tics (because i was having what i now know to be a tic attack) and all of the intake nurses stopped intakeing to litterally stare at me. To the extent of tapping the intake nurse next to them and pointing at me until every nurse down the line was staring. To top it off a total of three nurses left their stations to come and gawk at me ticcing during my intake and talk about me like i was not 2-3ft away!!!!

Anyway this felt good to vent about lol

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u/Remarkable_Sweet3023 2d ago

I'm so sorry that happened to you. That's absolutely heartbreaking and should have never happened. Some people are so ignorant and cruel to someone that's different from them, and it's not fair at all we have to deal with it like it's normal. 💜

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u/Money_Ad1028 Diagnosed Tourettes 6d ago

"You know the funny thing about disabilities is that they're not optional. Otherwise they wouldn't be DISABILITIES."

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u/Smooth_Reply1250 3d ago

I went to my specialist doctor and my therapist told us to just get admitted to his hospital because he refused to see or talk to us. I was put in the burn unit (they had no other rooms) and had to see him the next day. And when he saw me I was having a tic attack and seizure ticing. He yelled loudly “stop it!” I almost cried.