Hii

I've learned recentlyish that tics disorders and autism correlate, a little. According to this random article: Link its something like 9-12%.

I myself have had tics since I was maybe 10. My tics are only motor: a quiet grunt, eye blinks, and neck tensing. Somtimes they all sort of occur with each other. For example right now all three are happening one after the other (neck tense, eye blink and grunt)

The tics also come in an out of my life. I can spend months not having a single tic.

I writing this because my tics were going CRAZY yesterday. Like my neck is quite sore after a whole day of continous neck tensing (the other 2 arent painful)

My tics occur more when I:

1. Think about the tics/remember I have them: for example its happening maybe every 5-10 seconds atm as I write this.
2. The classic stress / anxiety. I was quite stressed yesterday and in general and hence the tic spree has been happening

For those that dont have tics, it feels like this (at least for me):

A build up of a sort of itch located at where the tics is. By itch I mean a strong compulsion to do it, and also a sort of acknolwegement if I give in, it will feel good. Tics actually feel good to do in the moment for me.

My current strategies are:

1. Literally just forget I have tics. This doesnt bring the tics to 0 at all when im stressed, but its a good thing to do when im having a "tic spree" (not an official word, idk what u would call it). I forget I have tics by just focusing on something else, like a video for example.
2. And of course, reducing stress in someway to hopefully reduce the tics overall.

Do you have tics?