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How To Have Tourette's

I Am The Movement

March 21, 2010

Note from Josh: I published this yesterday, watched it again, and can hardly believe it’s me. So I’m going to leave this up for another day. It is what currently passes as a sacred experience for me.
Hey gang, I know I said I wasn’t going to be writing on Sundays anymore, and I’m not, [...]

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How To Have Tourette’s Part 18: 8400 Seconds

March 17, 2010

It used to seem like an impossible goal, on par with jumping into orbit, swimming to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, or being able to divide fractions.
I want to sit still for one minute. 60 seconds of peace.
When I was six years old, I started to twitch with involuntary tics. This did not [...]

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How To Have Tourette’s Part 17: Getting Better At Getting Worse

March 9, 2010

You there!
I was going to type this today, but the tics wouldn’t let me. So I turned on the recorder, but the audio actually gives some more relevant bearing to today’s topic than the writing would have. The recording has some advice I believe we can both use.
It’s about eight minutes long. I’m pretty noisy [...]

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How To Have Tourette’s Part 15 – A Wonderful, Miserable Weekend in Minneapolis

February 10, 2010

Believe you me, Earthling, it’s a weird feeling to walk out of a room full of strongmen so you can have a good cry in the hall.
I had waited for months to attend the workshop and now I was here. The flights had been difficult and the cost hadn’t been cheap, but

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How To Have Tourette’s Part 14: The 90 Second Experiment

January 18, 2010

The last couple of months have been some of the strangest, worst, best, and most interesting of my life, at least as far as Tourette’s has gone.  From the horrorshow of No Excuses to the brief triumph of The Worth Of One Minute to the uncharacteristic anger of Dear Weakness…the highs have been high and [...]

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