The Home for Writers with Neurological Conditions
When I was nineteen years old I was preparing to leave the United States and spend two years in the Philippines, serving a mission for church. My mission began with nine weeks fully immersed in learning to speak Tagalog before flying across the Pacific. While I was learning the language, I began blinking very rapidly. […]
I have a 9-year-old son who was recently diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome. We are from Nairobi, Kenya. It took the earth to correctly diagnose this condition, as nobody in Kenya seems to know about it. After seeing 13 doctors, doing a myriad of tests and being given several different diagnoses, we were forced to travel […]
MY TOURETTE’S – by Garry (aged 39) My earliest memory of being told that famous quote (the one known worldwide to all young ticcers as they grow and their Tourette’s becomes more noticeable) – “STOP DOING THAT” – was by my Mum and my Nan in the kitchen on that lovely sunny day in the […]
My name is Natalie and I am almost 17 years old. I have ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome (mild), and a communication disorder called “Semantic Pragmatic Language Disorder” which makes it hard for me to learn when it comes to language or something difficult. Buffer
by Robaire Beckwith Knowing what growing up with Tourette Syndrome was like, and remembering the difficulties with understanding the problems experienced as a child and what caused them, led me to finding ways I could help children with TS and other ‘special’ needs caused by neuro-developmental disorders. There was almost no useful advice or support available […]
by Chris Tauers Acting and theatre specifically have meaning for me. Initially, theatre for me was an escape from TS that held me captive. When I act it leaves me inexplicably, it just goes away, and yet I can use the knowledge and experience of it to convey meaning and that allows acting complete freedom […]
Jonas Altberg – a.k.a. Swedish dance act Basshunter and also a ‘tourettic’. Listen to his inspirational BBC interview about life with the condition – and for the record, he happens to take the same view to Tourette’s as we do. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chartblog/2008/07/basshunter_tourettes.shtml] Buffer