@/{{Jailbreaker}}: I avert this. Some of my tics include A) a sort of buzzing sound I make with my teeth, B) applying pressure to various parts of my fingers, C) blinking really hard and frequently, and D) contracting my stomach in a way that gives me cramps. None of these are excessively vocal. The only ones I do often at all are the blinking and the fingers.

Also, for those who don't have it, the best description of having Tourette's is thus: You know how it feels to have an itch, right? You really want to scratch it. You can't stop thinking about it until you do it, and even when you do, it doesn't really make it stop. Well, these tics are the same way - it takes all of one's concentration to not do them.

A perfect description, that. It's an itch that can only be scratched by doing one of four or five VERY specific things, and as soon as you do one of those things, the itch just starts building again. It's best when you don't realize that you're doing it (so long as your tics aren't severe, of course), as you almost unconsciously make your tics and go about your day. But if someone calls attention to them? They get so much worse. Trying to NOT do them tends to just make the compulsion to do them much stronger, because you're concentrating on the sensation that you are not allowed to alleviate.

This troper agrees. One of the reason he hates things like mass is because he has to suppress many of the tics that would potentially disturb the ceremony. Usually leads to a marked increase in non-disturbing tics, though it never really goes away and he usually has to tic like crazy afterwards.

One of my best friends IRL has Coprolalia Tourettes, or at least I'm pretty sure he did. For a long time he would swear loudly in classes due to his Tourettes. However, he's gotten better about swearing and instead he yells out other words like they were swear words, like the name one of his friends or some food. Outside the VerbalTic he does have a few physical ones, but either everyone has gotten used to them, and stopped noticing them.

At one of This Troper's old workplaces, one of our regular customers had Tourette's. He was a good guy, but had his bad days (like one where he felt the need to talk to the boss about his sexual exploits). Overall we just treated him extra-nice, and gave him lots of physical contact (hand-shaking, patting the shoulders, etc).

This troper would like to mention that she and a friend of her mother's both have Tourette's and involuntarily ''freak out'' when touched unexpectedly as our own variants on the syndrome.

I used to have meowing as a tic, but that seems to have faded into weird humming at random intervals. Hiwever, I also have the screaming thing... Which is very unfortunate, because I scream like a banshee.

This troper has Tourette's, though he doesn't have any swearing tics. In fact, the closest thing to a vocal tic he does have is a.) sniffing his fingers and b.) talking really, really fast (though the latter could be TS combined with being an InsufferableGenius). He mostly paces and makes facial grimaces.

This Troper's brother has Tourette's, as do two of his longtime friends, though none of them have coprolalia. When one of her friends was exciting about doing a biology project on Tourette's due to HollywoodTourettes, she soon set her right. Also, when she was in middle school, a classmate who had pretty mild Tourette's claimed that he had coprolalia. Having observed three separate cases of Tourette's, considering the way he sweared was not very tic-like at all, and given that the "coprolalia" only came out in very, ''very'' select situations with almost no correlation (it couldn't have been a tic that just manifested when he was stressed, for example), this troper is pretty convinced that he was just using Hollywood Tourettes as an excuse. He had Tourette's, all right, but it wasn't making him swear.

135 This troper has tourettes, tourettes though he doesn't have coprolalia. His only tics are gritting his teeth, wheezing and coughing, and blinking. He does stammer, but doesn't know if it is because of his tourettes

This troper has a neighbor with Tourette's. The only tics I've seen him with is blinking very quickly and an odd, grunting, VerbalTic. He speaks ''hrrn'' kind of like ''hrrn'' this.

This troper's gym class did a softball unit earlier in the year, and while my friend and I were joking around and trying desperately to avoid getting called up to bat, I told her that if I had to step up to the plate, then I would start swearing. She told me that it was a good idea; maybe I would get sent to the nurse with Tourette's so I wouldn't have to play. I'm pretty sure she knew that Tourette's doesn't always involve swearing, and it was funny, so I didn't bother to correct her.

This troper's mom's boss has Tourettes, and his involves very frequent coprolalia. He is also married, has several children, and is an elder and occasional speaker at his (pretty conservative) church. It warms my heart that his family and the people at his church are so understanding about it.

This troper had Tourettes that wasn't diagnosed until age 18, when she suddenly developed a very noticeable tic. since it took a while for anyone to realize that it wasn't a horrible brain injury but just a fairly mild and common neurological condition, I missed a week of school. Everybody who found out about it loved to tease me about coprolalia. I do swear a lot, but it's got nothing to do with Tourette Syndrome. Then again, I went to a small high school in rural North Carolina...

This Troper's husband has the twitchy kind of Tourette's, occasionally accompanied by strange keening noises and getting stuck on interesting words. Oddly enough, it sometimes acts as a DisabilitySuperpower- when he gets especially agitated, he puts on a burst of super speed.