#still applicable

"omg dont hate everyone </3 u just havent opened up and considered X and Y yet</333 not everyones like that and if u stop assuming the worst in ppl maybe u will like them </3"

Was "worse than death" not descriptive enough?

Very well:

Well considering they weren't on a sinking ship and he didn't have a bomb in him...

DISCLAIMER: I don’t have Tourette’s, but have done some clinical research as well as read and watched folks with Tourette’s talk about their experiences. So if I get anything wrong here, or misrepresent something, please let me know and I will fix it!!

Here’s some preliminary, not-full-fledged thoughts:

I think (like most folks) Martin was diagnosed as a kid

His mum found his tics annoying, and so did other kids at school--all around a bad and non-supportive situation for him

I think by the time he gets older, a lot of his vocal tics have faded, but some other ones have taken their place--I’m thinking patterned blinking, head/neck twitching, shoulder shrugging are his most common tics.

When he gets anxious, his tics get worse, and that’s when some of his more uncommon/complex tics come out. Possibly some more self-injurious types of tics, and hand spasming, which makes him drop or throw things and worsens his anxiety in a cyclical sort of way

I think Jon (being a pretty oblivious person) did not realize that Martin had Tourette’s until Martin was really anxious while talking to him in his office one day, and held back from ticcing as long as possible, but ended up throwing something at the wall

Of course leading him into apologizing profusely and explaining what had happened

Martin steadily becomes more and more comfortable with ticcing in front of Jon as he realizes that Jon never seems to find it annoying, and will only laugh with him about it if Martin is laughing himself

I think the safehouse period is a mix between very relaxing and very anxiety inducing, and that’s when Jon finds out about his anxiety-induced self-injurious tics while he’s trying to chop some onions