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It is Selective Mutism (SM) awareness month! This month I will be posting facts and personal experiences with the condition. First, here...

Tourette’s is a difficult condition to live with. One thing that makes it even more challenging is the opinion that some of us are faking...

What is the difference between awareness and acceptance, and why is it important? Awareness – Knowledge or perception of a situation or...

Today marks my two-year tic anniversary. Two years ago, I developed what would soon be diagnosed as Tourette’s Syndrome. There are many...

In the grand scheme of things, I haven’t had Tourette’s for long. However, it has already changed my life in so many ways. I know it...

The other night I went to a comedy show – Stewart Francis, Into the Punset. The show was really good, but unfortunately my tourette’s...

This is a short video I filmed and edited to portray sensory overload on a forest dog walk. It focuses on sight and sound, and how these...

I haven’t had this myself, but It shocks me when I hear of people who have placed disbelief in somebody’s Autism diagnosis, based on the...

Selective mutism is more likely to occur with people who have a family history of anxiety Some people likely to develop SM can include...

When you bring attention to somebody in an anxious state it is only natural for their anxiety to get worse. This is the same when it...

Two years ago, I was oblivious to what people with Tourette’s had to deal with on a day to day basis. I simply thought, like many others...

My Selective Mutism started developing when I was 12 and it got severe by the time I was 14. However, most people with selective mutism...

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates and experiences the world. That is the textbook...

A part of my Autism and sensory processing disorder is sensory overload. This is essentially when my brain gets too much sensory...

A tic is an involuntary repeated movement or sound. They can occur in any part of the body and they are split into two categories - motor...

I’m going to ask you to try something for me. Try not to blink. Hold it. Keep your eyes open. You really want to blink now don’t you?...

Autism is such a large spectrum, that I cannot speak for the needs and presentation of each individual. We are all exactly that,...

The Autism side of me makes it hard to describe the emotions related to SM. If I had to choose a word, I would go with frustrating. I’m...

Selective mutism (SM) is an extreme anxiety disorder in which a person is incapable of speaking to certain people or in select...

In 2016, a youtuber called Jamie Sanders did a video titled ‘What Does Having Tourette's Feel Like? | 20 Answers’. His examples were...