Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author is pictured in elementary school, around the time he was singled out by a teacher for his tics. Courtesy of K.E. Semmel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to an estimate from the Tourette Association of America, one out of every 50 kids in the US has Tourette Syndrome or ...

I started having tics when I was 7 years old. At first, doctors dismissed my mom's concerns as me just being a kid. Tourette syndrome can't be cured, but I want to have more control over my tics. I’m ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Kate Linebaugh: Last week I got on the phone with a girl who's been suffering ...

Sure, the Megan Knees Challenge might leave you with some lingering leg soreness, but most TikTok content is pretty harmless. What worries some mental health experts are the subtle effects the video ...

“Quelle étrange petite fille!” said an agitated woman in the grocery store. When my 8-year-old self asked my mother what the woman had said, Mom didn’t reply, even though she knew some Cajun French, ...

Baylen Dupree was officially diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome just ahead of her 18th birthday, though she'd already been experiencing the tics for years. Looking back, her involuntary movements and ...

(KTLA) – Chailyn Thorne, 18, suffers from tics, some of them so severe that she feels paralyzed. The uncontrollable movements and sounds even put the Arkansas teen in a hospital bed. “I couldn’t move, ...

At a glance, Baylen Dupree of West Virginia is a typical 22-year-old. She has two loving parents, Julie and Allen, five siblings and a boyfriend named Colin, and enjoys sharing videos about her life ...

One particularly stressful day a few years ago, while driving to an important work event, I was seized with a severe bout of tics. This was not unusual for me. I’d been ticcing nearly all my life, and ...