i want you to post everything you know or think you know or have heard about tourrette's syndrome. i'm not asking you to look up facts for me, i want to know what you already know. im not doing research about tourrettes, i'm just trying to find out what other people know. i PROMISE that no matter what you post, i will NOT get annoyed or offended. i just want you to tell me everything you know about tourrettes. thanx!

all i know is that is an awesome song by nirvana, ha ha

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savanna, i'm impressed. most people don't know anything about it unless they have or know someone with tourrettes. how'd u know all that?

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Because anything that could possibly be wrong with the chemicals in my brain, are wrong. Tourettes, OCD, ADD, ADHD, Bi-Polar, you name it, I've probably got it.

savanna, i'm impressed. most people don't know anything about it unless they have or know someone with tourrettes. how'd u know all that?

All I've ever heard about Tourette's was on Seventh Heaven a long time ago. The kid had tics where he would burst out with a certain curse word.

...I really don't know very much about it at all, sorry.

Oooooh boy. Tourettes, huh? It's a chemical imbalance in the brain, something to do with the level of dopamine. This causes the person to have an overwhelming need to move in a certain way or make a certain sound. These sounds and movements are called
tics". The person can hold off the tics for awhile, but must eventually act on them. It's like a sneeze, you can hold it back at first, but you always end up sneezeing in the end.

The most common tics are eye-blinking, grunting, throat-clearing, shrugging the shoulders, clenching fists, repeating a certain sound, touching, and jerking. Without treatment, it can progress to the person not being able to function in society. It can be sucessfully treated with medications, but occasional "flare ups" are common in stressful situations.

That's all I can rattle off from memory.

wow. thats pretty sad. nobody knows anything?