"Tic attack" is pretty fun to say, though probably not to experience.

I do but they’re related to specific intense feelings or emotions. When I think of specific gross and scary things I do the move like flicking water off your hands a few times, if the subject doesn’t change I need to keep doing it until it does. I make an S shape with my head when I’m physically uncomfortable from thinking about specific gross and scary things, if it gets too much I feel like I need to take my shirt off and start tugging at the neckline of my top, this is an especially problematic one for obvious reasons but also because I’m a woman. If I remember specific things that were super embarrassing I repeat a phrase in my head over and over again for a while, it’s not a very nice phrase to say to yourself so this one worries me a bit but I try not to be judgmental about it and just let it pass through me as much as possible.

Yeah I occasionally have to like forcefully blink. And also look to the left sometimes. It doesn’t bother me but I know it looks weird so I try to mask it when looked at.

I know an ASD person with tics, but it's from PTSD/CPTSD. They described it like you do. The urge to do the movement and worse with anxiety. Their tics are vocal and motor. E.g We call one "snake": 😬🫱 flat hand in front of face while making a "Sss" sound.

They also have been sore after long sessions. What helped for very temporary relief was massaging the back of their head. Particularly in the middle back at the height of the ears. It's very temporary though, only lasting for as long as it is getting messaged.

When I was a kid, yeah. They kind of get shamed out of you.

I had a big problem with tics in my teenage years. I couldn't keep my neck still long enough to take a picture. My graduation picture was taken mid tensing. It went away out of nowhere one day, replaced by another tic with my nose that is generally more discreet and doesn't annoy others as much - this one I've been carrying for two decades but it comes and goes.

Small tics still come and go but they where pretty bad when i was a child. Its definitly stress/copeing related.

Yes! They started after a nervous breakdown and have been a part of me since. Verbal chirps and torettes type swearing or saying things. Diagnosed autistic in my mid 30s 5 years or so ago.

Also clapping and jazz hands and body jolt type moves.

Im undiagnosed, I dont have tics. My partner is diagnosed, they do have tics. Their tics remind me of someone with tourettes, but unlike a person with tourists, their tics aren't random.