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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

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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":"

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