{"id":1485,"date":"2012-10-23T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/tsparents\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2012-10-23T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T12:00:37","slug":"youre-not-alone-my-son-and-i-have-walked-in-your-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/tsparents\/youre-not-alone-my-son-and-i-have-walked-in-your-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re not alone: My son and I have walked in your shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son, Garrett,\u00a0used to have full-blown tics &#8212;\u00a0both vocal and physical tics.\u00a0He was an avid hunter and premier soccer player prior to his Tourette Syndrome\u00a0exploding.\u00a0Garrett wanted to stop the tics by taking an overdose, and as a result, he missed 42 days of school one year.\u00a0But\u00a0now, he has been\u00a0drug-free for four years.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett is the proud owner of YOJ sports, soon to be named Andover Hunt and Fish.\u00a0He\u00a0has been\u00a0interviewed by two newspapers about his TS, including the New Jersey Herald.\u00a0Garrett also is taking two classes at the County College of Morris. I\u2019m not sure if I found the right &#8220;cocktail,&#8221; but his TS is now gone.<\/p>\n<p>No one can believe\u00a0that Garrett is\u00a0the same boy who suffered with severe Tourette from\u00a06th grade through the beginning of 9th. I cried many times during our period of Tourette and am so very thankful our son has no more tics.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I feel guitly for the families whose children have Tourette. Life wasn\u2019t fair many times for ys during those school years, and it&#8217;s not fair for you now.\u00a0I just want all who are struggling with this themselves to know that I, and my family, have walked in your shoes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/njcts.org\/tsparents\/youre-not-alone-my-son-and-i-have-walked-in-your-shoes\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son, Garrett,\u00a0used to have full-blown tics &#8212;\u00a0both vocal and physical tics.\u00a0He was an avid hunter and premier soccer player prior to his Tourette Syndrome\u00a0exploding.\u00a0Garrett wanted to stop the tics by taking an overdose, and as a result, he missed&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/njcts.org\/tsparents\/youre-not-alone-my-son-and-i-have-walked-in-your-shoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[139,163,368,438],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v22.7) - 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