Taking a Closer Look at Tourettes Syndrome Essay - 781 Words

Tourette Syndrome (TS) is an inherited tic disorder that usually appears in early childhood and is classified by multiple motor tics and verbal tics. (Mayo 2012) Tics are sudden and repetitive movements, with motor tics being physical muscle movements, and verbal tics being sudden vocalization. Common tics range anywhere from constant eye blinking to throat clearing and grunting. Although the word â€Å"involuntary† is usually used to describe tics, this is not completely true, a better word would be â€Å"compelling.† It wouldn’t be true to say that people with Tourette’s can’t control their tics, some people can hold the tics back for hours at a time, but this only leads to a bigger outburst when they are finally let go. Tics are comparable to†¦show more content†¦From the second grade to the fifth grade, my tics were present, but not very active and noticeable. Although they were not extremely noticeable, people still would wonder why I was constantly making weird noises or twitching my arms and legs. It was when I entered the sixth grade that my tics started to really show. All day, every day, I was constantly teased, made fun of, and in some cases physically bullied. People made fun of me because I was different. It was by far the worst feeling someone can have, and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. There was one incident in middle school that I will never forget. After gym class one day in 7th grade, two kids came up to me and started calling me weird and annoying because of something I couldn’t control. I told them to go away, and this just made them insult me more, added fire to the flame. They kept going and going. When I finally got the courage to stand up to them and tell them that they’re not as cool as they think they are, one of them grabbed my arm as the other one punched me. I pushed them away from me as hard as I could, and tried to get away, but one of them came back, grabbed me, punched me square in the chest and knocked the wind out of me. I doubled over in pain as two gym teachers walked past. After a minute or two of them just standing there staring at me, I told them what happened, and they said â€Å"get up, boys will be boys.† I tried telling them that they were bullying meShow MoreRelatedEssay on Framing the User: Social Constructions of Marijuana Users9798 Words   |  40 PagesFraming is simply the social meaning given to various social movement elements among which include global perceptions of the movement and its legitimacy, perceptions of activists, attributions of cause and responsibility, proposed solutions, reasons for taking action, and the degree of resonance with the larger culture (Benford and Snow 2000). As noted by Benford and Snow (2000), there has been a significant increase in the amount of scholarly attention to this subject. Although this attention to framingRead MoreHemp Cultivation in China42289 Words   |  170 Pagesrepresentatives to be approximately 5,300 ha. These estimates may be somewhat high. Estimates based on local data collected by interviewing village leaders and agricultural advisors, and the trends extrapolated from these data, lead to the conclusion that closer to 4,000 ha of land was used to grow hemp in 1993. The remainder of this study concerns recent hemp production in Tai an District along the Da Wen river south and west of Tai an city. This area includes Dong Ping County (south and east of Dong PingRead MoreOcd - Symptoms, Causes, Treatment131367 Words   |  526 Pagespresence of greater functional impairment in OCD, and the increased complexity and vagueness of the fear-eliciting stimuli in OCD. Others suggest that OCD may share a common etiology with chronic (multiple) tic disorder and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (see review by O’Connor, 2001). It is also possible that the greater symptom variability and abstract nature of many obsessions have led to the speculation of links with other classes of psychopathology. At the very least, the increased heterogeneity