{"id":4958,"date":"2017-05-10T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2018-03-15T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T14:38:40","slug":"2017-njcts-youth-scholarship-award-essay-tourette-syndrome-will-always-be-a-part-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/2017-njcts-youth-scholarship-award-essay-tourette-syndrome-will-always-be-a-part-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 NJCTS Youth Scholarship Award Essay: “Tourette Syndrome will always be a part of me”"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is the essay I submitted to the NJ Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS<\/strong><\/a>) for their 2017 Youth Scholarship Award contest.<\/em><\/p>\n Trevor S.<\/p><\/div>\n At ten years old, I was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome and it has had an impact on\u00a0my life at first. Being so young, I did not really understand what Tourette Syndrome was, or\u00a0what I was diagnosed with. It made it a little difficult to communicate with friends and let them\u00a0know exactly what I was doing or why I ticced. One of the things that I wanted to do when I\u00a0grew up was to learn more about Tourette Syndrome so I would learn more about me as a\u00a0person. I moved to New Jersey two days before the start of my freshmen year. At the\u00a0start of junior year, my mom found out about the [NJCTS Tim Howard Leadership] academy and it was an awesome experience. It\u00a0helped me learned more about myself as I learned a lot more about TS than I previously had. The\u00a0time I had at the academy left me feeling great that I finally understood who I was and I could\u00a0explain to people about TS. I explained what TS was to my friends who were curious and I\u00a0ended up becoming a youth advocate for TS. During the first couple months of school, I attended\u00a0a presentation and answered questions for the students about TS. I have also attended two TS\u00a0walks. I have recently been accepted to the academy again and look forward to attending it.\u00a0Tourette Syndrome has had such an impact on my life that I do not believe I can imagine my life any other way. My letter for college was about Tourette Syndrome and how it had affected my\u00a0life. I have been accepted into all but one of my colleges and have received the presidential\u00a0scholarship at every university. Tourette Syndrome is, and will always be a part of me. It does\u00a0make certain things interesting such as school and sports but it invites me to see new things. In\u00a0school, I do well and I get to have extra times on my tests when it is needed. While there are\u00a0some negatives, the positives outweigh the few negatives by a lot. I have made many new friends\u00a0through the academy and other places and my knowledge in general has increased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the essay I submitted to the NJ Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) for their 2017 Youth Scholarship Award contest. At ten years old, I was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome and it has had an impact… Continue Reading