Yesterday I saw a video on fb of a dad with tourettes cooking with his son and I couldn’t bear to watch it in full, I had to skip through it. I’ve been this way ever since I was diagnosed years ago. I am not new to TS, yet this still bothers me 7 years in. I get the sympathy cringes or something. I find it incredibly distressing to see other people ticing and I’m not exactly sure why. I think it’s a mixture of a lot of things. Partly extreme sympathy because I know exactly what it’s like and part “oh my word is that how people see me?” My tics are so much a part of me I don’t think about them most of the time. But when confronted with another person’s tics I’m suddenly reminded that I’m not “normal” according to general society. But I also don’t really care what strangers think. I happily tic in public all the time so idk. Does anyone else have similar experiences? I think it might be a video only thing. If I was to meet someone with tics in person I don’t think it would bother me because I could talk with and get to know them. There would be more them just “oh hey, this person has tics!” Then again that’s never happened so Idk