Complex tic: when multiple muscle groups are used, multiple words (e.g., throwing something)
Premonitory urge: a very uncomfortable sensation (a build up of energy, electric/fiery/bubbling/tickling/crawling) that builds up before a tic. Not everyone experiences this and it doesn't happen before every tic.
Suppressing: the act of 'holding in' tics, often increasing the premonitory urge and making them worse later. Not everyone can suppress and it can only be done for so long. People may do it to avoid judgement, for safety.
Coprolalia: a socially inappropriate vocal tic (e.g., swearing, a slur)
Copropraxia: a socially inappropriate motor (physical) tic (e.g., 🖕)
Echolalia: vocally repeating other people's words or sounds, can also extend to animal sounds
Echopraxia: physically repeating others actions
Waxing: a period of increased frequency or intensity of tics, or a flare up
Waning: a period of decreased tic frequency/intensity
Tic attack: a highly intense period of constant, often intense, tics, completely uncontrollable and unstoppable
Trigger: something that sets off a person's tics or a particular tic
Dystonic tics: slower tics, abnormal posture or straining of a body part
Blocking tics: a tic which takes away a person's ability to move/speak
There are definitely more but these are a good handful!
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I love your series Uncontrolled, so very much! and have been rereading the whole thing today.
I have a suggestion for a fic that I'd love to read from you, that is inspired by my experience reading these fics lmao. So I love reading them, but reading about tics makes me tic.
You know how being around other people with tics, is one of the biggest triggers. My suggestion: One of the younger doctors/med students has a patient who has Tourretes, gets the “great” idea to ask Langdon for a consult. (Kind of like how they might ask Mel for a consult on an autistic patient.) What they fail to realise, is that tics trigger tics (A gap in their knowledge, that is all too common, for these types of medical conditions). They don’t warn Langdon the patient has tics, just the symptoms they came in for. So Langdon is fully not prepared when he walks in, and gets triggered (triggering to poor patient as well).
tldr: Langdon is asked to consult on a case with tourettes, which leads to his own tourettes being triggered.
That the suggestion. obviously you can take or leave it. No expectations or pressure or whatever. Ill enjoy whatever you decide to write next for this series.
I love this idea, and I've been percolating on it for a few days. I feel like Javadi would be the one to ask for his help and gush about how he was the perfect doctor for this patient.
And then she would have her typical mortified face when she realizes what she's done.
Under the cut is a little blurb from what I've been thinking about with this idea, along with a bit about my own experience with coprolalia and copropraxia.
"Your experience will be so helpful!" Javadi said excitedly as they approached the room, door shut and curtains drawn. "I know technically any resident could help, but you are definitely suited to be Kate's doctor!"
Frank nodded along and hoped his confusion didn't show on his face. Why was he the perfect doctor for this patient? Javadi had given him the rundown- 32 year old female with probable broken wrist. Sure, he had seen a lot of broken wrists in his career, but so had every other resident. Simple bone breaks were common in the ER.
Javadi continued to ramble on as she opened the door to the room and pulled the curtain aside. "Because you have experience!" She smiled at the patient- Kate -sitting on the gurney. "Kate, this is Doctor Langdon, and he's going to be the doctor taking care of you today."
With a polite smile, Frank turned to the computer and opened the patient's chart. "Student doctor Javadi told me you think you broke your wrist. How did that happen?" His neck jolted back as he turned back to the patient.
The patient's eyes widened slightly as her heard jerked back also, a perfect mirror of Frank's own tic.
Prickles marched up Frank's neck and it jerked, again, again, again, as a yip! forced it's way out his mouth.
"Motherfucker!" Kate swore, her head jerking sideways now. "Fuck me!"
Once upon a time I volunteered at a camp for kids with Tourettes (the overall experience was just terrible but the kids were great) and I got stuck in a tic loop with a teenager. She would tic "Go kill yourself!" and I responded with "Bitch!" to which she responded with "Yay, you did it!" and my "Bitch!" followed after.
I don't have a lot of coprolalia tics anymore, but "Bitch" is still fairly common. Actually, probably my most common word tic, and it's actually more like "mmmBitch" with a hum before hand.
(It used to be "Bitchass!" in a drawling southern accent, which was objectively hilarious)
I still also flip the double bird (copropraxia), and that usually occurs after a clap. I'll clap, flip the double bird, and do a tongue click. That's a combo that occurs not infrequently for me.
I wish I knew literally anyone else with tourettes. I wish I wasn't the only person in my life that has it. I wish anyone else understood what it's like how shitty it is all the time for so many reasons other than it being irritating. I wish I had someone who understood how uncomfortable premonitory urges are, I wish I knew someone who also felt endangered day to day because people think WE are dangerous or on drugs, I wish I had someone who understood how hard it is to get through an interview without ticcing, or get through a movie in a theater, or a dinner at a restaurant, the constant stares, the questions from little kids, the awkwardness after I explain to grown adults, being prayed over for no fucking reason.... literally nothing is easy and I'm not upset about it every day but today I am.
Reminder that only ~10% of people with Tourettes have coprolalia and copropraxia (the swearing and inappropriate gestures).
Reminder that Tourettes is NOT the "swearing disease".
Reminder that if someone with coprolalia says a slur its NOT controllable, NOT what they're 'actually thinking', and NOT because its apart of their common vocabulary.
Most often its because its the last thing the person would ever want to say and thats what the Tourettes plays on.
Making our uncontrollable vocalizations the punchline to a joke is abelist, no matter it is that we've ticced.
i always forget that coprolalia and copropraxia (saying "obscene" things and making "obscene" gestures, respectively) are quite rare, even within people who are diagnosed with tourette's syndrome
i experience both of them, and i think that combined with how stigmatized that particular aspect of tourette's is in the media means that i forget its not actually all that common
(according to wikipedia) only about 10% of people diagnosed with tourette's experience coprolalia, which is,,, not that many people in the grand scheme of things
idk, theres not much of a point to this post, i just forget that until it comes up somehow lmao
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I feel like, even in the Tourette Syndrome community, us with coprolalia are outsiders. We're the "15%", we're the "stereotype", we're the "nobody with Tourettes actually has that". Tourette Syndrome is already such an isolating condition and having coprolalia can make it more so. Even when I've met people with tics IRL I've never met someone with copro.
To everyone with coprolalia/praxia reading this please know that just like everyone else with Tourettes you also should never need to suppress for other people. Your tics do not represent your thoughts or beliefs. Don't ever feel like a bad person for your tics. You're always welcome in the Tourettes community.
a copropraxia flag based on this coprolalia flag for anon! i used red to represent the physicality of copropraxia, since red represents the body.
flag id: a flag with 7 stripes, with the fourth being smaller than the rest. in order, they are very dark dull red, dark dull red, red-grey, soft brown, red-grey, dark dull red, and very dark dull red. end id.
You know what sucks? I thought I didn’t have coprolalia or copropraxia bc I never had any inappropriate vocal or motor tics-
and then I got a middle finger tic and I was like ‘well ok but it’s just the one’ …
and now I’ve got several vocal curse tics! Like 4 or 5 very recently and I’m never usually active in vocal tics yknow?!!!
Like damn. Guess I’ve got that now.
