Hi! My name is Hannah, and I have been struggling with Tourette’s for about 6-7 years now. I was never formally diagnosed, though. However, I was diagnosed with depression, ocd, and have multiple symptoms of ADD, however I don’t know… Continue Reading
This is the essay I submitted to the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) for their 2014 Children’s Scholarship Award contest. I hope you enjoy it! Tourettes. We all have our own challenges. Mine has a… Continue Reading
This is the essay I submitted to the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) for their 2013 Children’s Scholarship Award contest. I hope you enjoy it! And here is my profile on the NJCTS website. Tourette has had… Continue Reading
I am excited for my presentation tomorrow about Tourette Syndrome at my rival school. In my presentation, I will talk a lot about associated conditions of TS, such as, ADD, ADHD, Executive Functioning, anxiety, depression and more. But I also… Continue Reading
This weekend, I finally had some time to work on my speeches for Athens. Because of Easter, I have a four-day weekend (in the Netherlands, we celebrate Good Friday and the second day of Easter as well), so plenty of… Continue Reading
This winter break, I have spent some time thinking about why I wasn’t diagnosed sooner and why my mom did not see the early warning signs as warning signs as part of the larger picture for a TS+ child. For… Continue Reading
OK, so if any of you guys have watched Monk, the TV show or the movie, then you know what this post is most likely going to be about. For those of you who have never watched Monk, it’s an… Continue Reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following post was entered on our Facebook page the other day. It’s from the leader of an online community called Collectively Conscious, who has Tourette Syndrome and associated disorders such as ADHD. I would just like to… Continue Reading
This is Derek Smith! He is 32 years old. He has not yet been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, but he has been living with it for many years. Here’s his story: I’ve had this condition my whole life, movements mostly,… Continue Reading
Please join Teens4TS, the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome, the Tourette Syndrome Association and the hundreds of thousands of Americans with TS in celebrating Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month, May 15 to June 15. Tourette Syndrome is a misdiagnosed, misunderstood… Continue Reading