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Question 47: Hi my name is Z. I have tourette and i wanted to tell you what i have discovered about my ts. I went to your presentation when you in Edmonton Alberta before xmas in 2001. I take alot of different meds for my ts. I also control my tics alot, but now that i'm older I'm starting to stop controling as much. I'm always thinking that my tics are embarassing but i have discovered (with the help of my parents) that the tics are not all that bad, that is, in public, but in school it's a hole different matter, so, i gave myself a goal that if i could tic a certen amout every day i could build up the amout of tics i let out every day i would get used to the feeling that i get. My brain keeps telling me that people are laghing at me, even though i know that they could care less about my tics. How did you get used to that ugly feeling? I want to know because I hate feeling like that every time that tics in the class room or even worse in the halls after the bell rings for second period. If you could please e-mail me back ...it would be great. Thanks. From: Z.J., AB, Canada. P.S. i'm 16 years old.

Hi Z. -- I'm very sorry it took me so long to write back to you. It is hard to keep up with everyone I want to answer these days but I wanted to make sure I sent such an impressive young woman SOMETHING!!

I wrote an article about teasers once, and I have it on my website (click on this link: www.lifesatwitch.com/tricks2.html). In it I talk about some of the things I figured out so that the reactions of others don't bother me at all anymore.

I wanted to say that, by coming to the workshop in Edmonton, and by doing things like writing for answers to your questions you are on a VERY GOOD track, and much earlier than I ever was!! The key to others not seeing your tics as a big deal is YOU not thinking they are a big deal, and the more you talk about them and learn about them the less you will care about them. Don't you worry -- I can tell that there will be a day (and much sooner than it was for me) that your tics won't give you an ugly feeling at all! At 16 and already seeing that tics aren't the end of the world: you're a long way already........

cheers Z -- all the best!
Dr. Dunc.

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