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So Tourette's syndrome and autism.
Um, so Tourette's and autism have a relationship.
Right.
And I want it to talk about it because a lot of people ask me questions,
you know, pretty much all my videos, uh, from people asking me questions.
Hey, do you know about threat syndrome?
And do you know about autism is autism and Tourette's syndrome linked together.
And so let's, let's, let's just right down to the basics.
So Tourette's syndrome and autism are two different conditions.
They can co-occur in some people I know of one person personally, who has.
Tourette syndrome and autism.
Um, but Tourette syndrome usually diagnosed independently
of any other condition, which means it's just on its own.
Right.
And so Tourette's syndrome is when someone has the inability to control
certain outbursts, which are called ticks.
Now these could be verbal.
Um, it could be noises that you make like grunts or whatever, or it could be
like your arm moving or, or like throwing your arms sideways and thrashing out.
Um, very, very interesting.
There's no kind of.
Because for this, they don't really know what causes it.
It's definitely kind of neurological, but there's no, there's no real cause like
they can't pinpoint it to be in a cost.
Right.
So, um, in terms of, are they linked the autism?
Well, neurologically, well, yeah, you know, autism is a noodle surgical
neurodevelopmental condition.
Um, and so it is possible that autism and Tourette's linked together
because we'll of course, you know, autistic people have texts as well.
I actually have ticks, uh, where I like hit my chest.
I'm gonna go, uh, all the time.
And, uh, you know, it just takes man.
I got loads of ticks.
I also get ticks where I just kind of, I like, I like, uh, shell and
I kinda like tense up all the time.
That's kind of an interesting one that really annoys me, but it's just a tick.
And we learned to just deal with the fact that it used to take and that's it.
So Tourette syndrome is super interesting.
Um, that actually impacts one in six.
Yeah, sorry, one in 160 people on average.
Um, and it's a difficult condition to deal with at times, because you could be kind
of physically lashing out at people and shouting verbal abuse with people, but
not trying to, you know, must be horrible for the people who have that condition.
Um, just horrible.
Um, but those impulse takes like involuntary noises and stuff.
Um, that can be anything from burping Barton to shouting, to sniffing.
Like there's, there's so many different things.
Um, and it's usually things that are, uh, uh, Uh, like seen as, um, kind
of like aggressive or kind of a bit like taboo in Western civilizations.
Like you wouldn't like want us to have someone shouting at you.
I was walking down the high street.
So you know that the link that exists between them, the both
conditions that they both neurological and that they both have ticks.
Now you can have autism and kind of a Tourette's together, but I'm thinking
it would be harder to diagnose the Tourette's in autism because autism does.
Encompass takes, you know, like random ticks and involuntary
tick actions and stuff like that.
Um, and so I would say that.
It's it's less common to be diagnosed with autism, but it is quite a
common condition to be diagnosed.
I actually know of a couple of people who do have Tourette's syndrome, actually, a
really good friend of mine called Pamela.
And she's a comedian on YouTube.
I'll leave a link for a channel down below, and she has Tourette's syndrome.
And I met her when I was doing a, um, uh, like a.
Uh, thing in, um, I met her when I was doing this thing in MIT, in
America, we were doing kind of like a disability, um, symposium or something.
Um, for like 10 days, it was really, really good.
But, um, she was so interesting and the fact she has Tourette's syndrome
and she does comedy was just great.
Because one thing that I did notice that was the same between
autism and Tourette's syndrome is.
Barking now she barks in asleep.
And so do I, like I bark in my sleep.
It's crazy.
Um, I, my girlfriend's always like, dude, you're barking and you sleep again.
I'm like, Oh no, no, it's so like bizarre, but it's something that
happens, you know, barking in my sleep.
I just do it.
I don't know why.
I don't even know I'm doing it right back in growling, like a dog, but she also
backs and girls in the sleep like a dog.
And it was really funny cause she says, you know, back in my sleep and sh you
know, she was making the joke about it.
And I was like, Dude.
I, I do it too.
So I guess, you know, Tourette's and autism do have some similarities to the
way the brain works and the function of the brain work because it's neurological.
Right.
But at the end of the day, they are separate conditions and they
can be diagnosed separately, but it's really fascinating.
Definitely check out Pamela's Channel.
And she's really interesting.
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