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09 Jun 2011, 7:25 pm

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.



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09 Jun 2011, 11:19 pm

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


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27 Dec 2012, 12:42 pm

._. 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.


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27 Dec 2012, 1:28 pm

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. :lol: 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. :roll: 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.



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27 Dec 2012, 3:48 pm

[quote="MacYavel83"]I had tics when I was a kid, much less now.
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Same here.



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27 Dec 2012, 3:55 pm

No, I have been lucky in this respect. When I stim it is very small finger movements that most do not identify as unusual behaviour.



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27 Dec 2012, 8:04 pm

I blink a lot and have facial scrunching. Not sure if this is a tic or a stim, though.

I have one definite tic where I tug the shoulder of my shirt. Did it since I was a kid.


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28 Dec 2012, 2:13 am

I have quite a few of them, some completely involuntary (like head jerks and fluttering/tremors in muscles all over my body) and some voluntary in the same sense scratching an itch is voluntary, like repeating phrases such as "pax vobiscum" when I'm upset or angry at myself. many of mine are attributed to my conversion disorder, which is an extreme stress response which is likely related to my ASD but also to other stress factors in my life.


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28 Dec 2012, 11:59 am

I bite my lips and snatch small chips of skin from them. I continually "count" my teeth with my tongue. I play with my fingers, stacking them in awkward positions. Would it count as a tic that I write words with my middle finger on table tops? It's always just one word at a time, but I can repeat it dozens of times.


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28 Dec 2012, 3:05 pm

I shook my head rapidly and blinked my eyes a lot up until I was 19years old. Now I just tic my head sometimes when I eat certain foods.



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28 Dec 2012, 11:30 pm

Had various tics throughout my life but never ever really thought of them as tics in the tourette's sense - like a lot of this stuff, just something I did that felt natural but knew I should hide to avoid being singled out. I screw my eyes up (and also do that eye rolling thing with lids shut), sniffing and screwing up my nose, used to crack my jaw a lot as a teenager but not anymore. Also used to make a strange constricted swallowing noise a bit like a hamster or something. I'm a compolsive finger tapper but not sure if that is maybe more of a stim thing.

Listing all this out together it seems impossible that I never recognised what I was doing was tourette's/AS type tic behaviour but, like all the other symptoms, I think I am learning now just how much I have been able to lie to myself over the years and write off all the questions I would ask myself about my behaviour as just my overactive immagination. Denial is great...until it breaks down.


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28 Dec 2012, 11:35 pm

I have facial tics. Gets me a lot of looks from strangers that pass by. They probably think I'm making faces at them.

When I blink a lot I know a seizure is coming. It's interesting to see similarities in tics and complex partial seizure jerking. Or even simple partial that looks just like stimming.


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28 Dec 2012, 11:35 pm

when i think too hard on something i get an electric sensation at the base of my skull and my head jerks to one side...when I'm talking while that happens i normally stammer.... though i believe it's a side effect of the medicine i was talking earlier in life.



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05 Mar 2013, 7:06 am

I have the shoulder shrug/twitch thing and it has got a lot worse over the last few years. It is annoying and does draw 'funny looks' from strangers if it happens in the supermarket etc. I have found that clenching my left hand and releasing does help somewhat - I read that in an article about professional footballers who say it helps them relax if they are taking a penalty or free kick - but it doesn't stop it totally. I bought one of those neck collar shiatsu massage things which does provide some short term relief from the twitching too. I have recently switched to Citalopram from decades of Prozac as it is supposed to help with anxiety, but to date it hasn't made much difference. I could really do without it, but it is quite possible that I am stuck with it.

Anybody have any techniques/strategies/vitamins etc that have helped?

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06 Mar 2013, 4:41 am

Yeah I hate them but I have shoulder twitching and head jerking sometimes noises. When I was younger I used to twitch my nose and stamp my foot uncontrollably