Anybody else have tics?

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no, i dont believe i have any. i have really bad anxiety though and have had a psycotic episode when i was 24 or 25 that resulted with me in a mental ward because i tried killing myself. can you believe that?

my anxiety is something pretty bad like i'll have a depersonalization freakout and will basically stare at something for like an hour before it leaves, its terrifying

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Sort of, they can be controlled, but it makes me feel really uncomfortable.

Making audible noises, jerking my head forward, there's more, but I put a lot of effort into silencing and freezing them, because it made me a target at one point in middle school. I still have them, I just conceal them really well, like my anxiety I conceal well. I hide stuff well, I have a good poker face (even though i don't know how to play poker lol, you get the point)

However, if it was quiet in the room and you paid close attention, you could probably hear an irregular breathing pattern from me - the tics get worse when I'm around others, and because I put a lot of effort into stopping the tics, but I do successfully, it makes relaxing movements like breathing more... "distorted"? Physically I'm fine, but I've been asked if I'm okay multiple times.

I twitch my index finger alot, especially when I am anxious. I dont notice I am doing it, and only one other person has ever mentioned it. Its pretty mild in my opinion.

I have antipsychotic-induced tics which include my arms bending, my neck twisting and my toes contracting. I've been on APs for the last 6 years

I think I do, yes. A friend started actually doing it as well, though more out of habit then out of an actual tic. When I see something visually stimulating, I'll let out a "Huh!" [like the sound one might make when initially stepping into a tub of ice] If I'm thinking about something that's stimulating, that stirs up an emotion of fear or something, I'll also make that "Huh" sound. Example: I was in a pretty insane accident a few weeks ago in which I miraculously survived unscathed, and I keep finding myself thinking about it, and if my thoughts get too intense, I'll go, "Huh!" and a few seconds later, "Huh!" again. It's as if I'm trying to 'expel' the thoughts from my mind via my mouth...

The most prominent one is what my father has termed, "Annoying" and "Obnoxious". He's even mocked my vocal tic and told me to stop it. I remember the very night I started actually doing it when I was about seven, but it's less prominent now. If I'm very tired and my body knows I should be sleeping, I start letting out an involuntary noise. The best way to describe the sound is that I say, "Hmm!" as if I am constipated and trying to let something out. It's intermittent, and I won't stop making the noise until I've fallen asleep, and the more I try to repress it, the stronger it hits me: "Hm!...................Uh!" It's become the 'know all' in my family. If I start making the sound, everyone knows that I'm starting to fall asleep. Physically, it feels as if I am gagging from my diaphragm, not my stomach.

It wasn't until very, very recently that I realized that this may be a tic. A Tourette's. Once again, more reason for me to believe that I am not neurotypical.

I have what I assumed was restless leg syndrome, though I'm not entirely sure. I have the overwhelming urge to jerk my knee and toes upward. I can resist it, but it feels sort of like an electrical current going through my leg if I don't release it by making that motion, and that's not a pleasant feeling. Is that a tic? It's definitely not a stim. It doesn't happen all the time though. I'll just occasionally have episodes of it that last for like 30 minutes to an hour.

I have facial tics which I didn't have before I went on medication.

All my body jerking looks like tics or tourettes but it turns into convulsing. Are tics supposed to feel like burning/tingling/ electric shocks?

This is something I'd like to work out too... What's the defining line between the two? I can resist most of my urges to "stim", but I really can't at times. I get an unstoppable and unbearable urge to rock or fidget with my hands or tug at my clothes or do weird stuff with my breathing or make weird faces... They're stoppable, or postponable, but the urge rapidly gets stronger and stronger until I give in. It's extremely unpleasant.

I have a few tics, which I did not actually realize were tics until just recently. I have this thing I do with my eyes. Can't explain it, but it is a tic. I also do toe-crunching quite a bit. Also this twitchy thing with my shoulders which I also can't explain, but another tic.

I have a few different "stims". Not sure whether or not I have "tics"...

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An Asperger's man who has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1- mild, with a sprinkling of Synesthesia.

._. my tics:
I blink a lot. Sometimes when I close my eyes, I roll my eyes. I wonder if that has to do with it...
I shrug my shoulders. Sometimes it gets really bad where I can't even lift my arms afterwards.
Neck jerking. It can go from rotating my head (like a PE Exercise) or snapping it to my right. I heard dominance has something to do with this.
Channeling my tics:
I can't really suppress my tics, but I can bring them to another part of my body:
Twisting my feet. This gets really distracting when I'm taking a test or filling out a form.
Wiggling my fingers when I'm really bored
Jerking my arms only (when I'm not trying to shoulder shrug)

I also learned that stimming or playing a video game keeps me from ticcing. But if I do, I tic a lot later.

Yes, as my username suggests, I do have tics. The first vocal tic I had was snorting like a pig. I remember where I was when it happened too. I was shopping with my mother and sister, at a Wal-Mart. My sister at first just thought that I was fooling around, and told me to knock it off. And I told her I couldn't. My mother then recognised it as being a tic. Another vocal tic I have is barking like a dog. I can actually bark out the tune of "Jingle Bells". A problem I had though was when I nearly got into a fight with a dog, because it's barking set off mine. We had an arguement, and I didn't know what I was communicating. I also sometimes have simple motor tics, such as raising my eyebrows up and down. I've noticed that being stressed, and/or startled, makes my tics more chronic. Also, on a related note, I remember back in the 80's, before Asperger Syndrome was widely known, my parents became concerned about my frequent hand flapping, which I later learned is a "stim". But the neurologist they took me to was not aware of this. He told my parents that he thought that it's probally Tourette's Syndrome, and that I might grow out of it. So for years I was not aware that I am autistic. Though in retrospect, I can recognise the traits I share with others with Asperger's Syndrome. The good thing is that the doctor thought it best not to medicate me. I sometimes wonder though how my life might have been different, had people known back then that I'm a high functioning autist. But before the 90's, and even later in my case, persons often were considered to have other conditions, other than on the autistic spectrum. Before my 20's though, I do not remember having any type of tics, rather than stims.