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My Tourette's began benignly enough, with a simple head twitch. I though that I was just flicking my head to get my bangs out of my eyes. (That really is what my twitch resembled.) These were the days of boys having long hair and one day I simply started flicking my head to get my bangs out of my eyes. Unfortunately, then I couldn't stop.
The twitches quickly "spread". My shoulders started getting in on the action. A shoulder shrug is what that movement resembled. Then my neck started feeling left if I wasn't flicking my head. So it filled in the gaps with a move that looked like a simple stretch, over and over. Finally, my face punctuated everything with eyebrow raises and nose twitches like Samantha from TV's Bewitched.
All in all, every part of me from the shoulders up was in perpetual motion.
I was eleven years old. I felt like an unholy, awful mess.
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