#actually ticcing

Hope yalls tics r mild this month(and rest of ur life) and no one shames u for ticcing

i always feel so guilty for ticcing in public places because people stare or laugh,, so i suppress- but that’s the worst feeling in the world.. to me it feels like a bubbling sensation around your whole body slowly crawling up your throat and then it causes attacks for me after a long period of time.

I have had for two years now, but it only got bad recently. I’m pretty new to having them this bad, so I wanted to ask how should I approach telling people. Should I tell them immediately? Seems like oversharing, especially that they got a bit ‘quieter’ (I can go without ticcing for a whole evening now!). Should I just inform them when I start ticcing? Like: hello I did not just wink at you, it was involuntary. Or should I not even mention it and not draw attention?

My tics are mostly motor, some sounds and a whistle.

There's this specific one that was one of the reasons why I couldn't fall asleep. I'm so mad. I hate it. Basically it looks like this: I'm lying down, relaxed, and then my body just *spasms*. If someone saw me they might think that I have epilepsy. After like a second it stops tho (only to do it again later)

Making a disgusted face (frequent)

Winking (frequent)

Moaning in this weird way (not sexual, its just like trying to say high pitched “m”) (frequent)

Making a cartoony sad face (new, rare)

Whistling (it used to be worse)

Moving my right arm (frequent)

Shaking my head up and down (v. frequent)

Sniffing (new, I think its frequent, but nos frequent as the others)

Spasms when i lie down (frequent but only when I lie down)

In the past:

Kicking the ground

Hitting myself in the head

Hitting sth in front of me

Hitting my leg

Saying “e”

Throwing my head to the left