I blink pretty much all the time, but when I tic, it takes blinking to the next level. First, I roll my eyeball to the corner of my eye. Then, I blink while it’s there. It’s 1 of the most ‘ticced’ tics I have.

Putting fingertips together on one or both hands and sniffing them. Doing it less now, but now my head nods are getting worse. I’m 13.

I’m almost 16 & I have quite a few tics. I will jerk my head forward and downward… sort of like an extremely fierce nod, quickly tense my stomach muscles and the release, roll my eyes in a weird way (People usually think I’m being disrespectful, but it’s involuntary. Oh well.) I also make a noise in the back of my throat that sounds like I’m saying “hut” or kind of laughing at something, the more stressed or nervous I am – the louder it is. I’ve come to realize that caffeine also heightens my tics. I hate it.

7 year old son – started with intense head nodding/jerking, eye blinking and rolling, hopping, extending arms, throat clearing, sniffing, knocking knees and knocking elbows.

Im 18 yrs old, and i have many tics that take over my life. Mine are all physical rather than vocal. I have to roll my eyes weird, crack my fingers a very certain way, pick at anything on my body, knock on my head three times, and a very major tic that is a disorder all on its own, Trichotillomania… my tics are increased a lot because of all my anxiety disorders that mix with my tourettes.

My 10-year-old son has quite a few tics: dislocating his shoulders, blinking, twitching his nose and eyes, sniffing grunting, squeaking, spinning, twirling, hopping, skipping, general wriggling, neck jerking, the list goes on as do the tics, waxing and waning constantly.

I’m 17 years old and i have quite a few tics, but my most prominent one is my ‘sneeze’. It’s not actually a sneeze but my vocal tic imitates the sound of one. If i had $1 for every time someone said “Bless You” after my tic… i’d be rich

My 7 year old son has many tics, he has a violent nodding of the head, he thrusts his arms down to the ground, he has a high pitch sound a bit like a dog, he has a growling sound in his throat and also has a facial tic with screwing up his eyes and nose.

I am 8 years old and I have lots of tics. One is that I scrunch my nose then flare my nostrils, my mom says I look like a bunny. I also roll my eyes a lot and I worry sometimes that people will think that I am rolling my eyes at what they are saying. viagra

I am a 73 year old with more tics than I can count. My most dangerous one is that I glance at the sun. I should know better, since I am a physicist, but we don’t control our tics.

My 13 year old has many but cracking his fingers is one. His tics are probably fairly mild but now that we are aware of his Tourette’s we definitely notice him and others who have it. You’re not alone.

12 yr old son puts rt shoulder in and out of joint, turns head over shoulder, winks, hops on one foot, touches that foot, pauses and must repeat if messed up. Verbal, throat clearing, repeating words, must always reply when spoken to, ok or shut up, or no… cusses too, impulsive, can be aggressive, yells, pounds on table repeatedly when frustrated and tired with fist or elbow, can’t concentrate, must erases excessively, I have to scribe for him at home for homework, still takes hours to complete because he can’t concentrate… must complete a sentence and have a certain amount of time lapse before I can answer or feels interrupted and must repeat question after first saying, Mom, (horse sound) Mom, (horse sound) Mom, vibrating lips like a horse several times in-between, name items in room while pointing at them like that’s a door, that’s a wall, that’s a picture (the more upset or frustrated, the more items he must point out before moving forward) and then finally saying question again, this usually goes on 2-6 times before we can move forward. Touching things repeatedly, having the volume on the TV on an odd number, squeezing butt cheeks together while tensing stomach muscles causing whole body to jerk and while sitting, also incorporates thrusting legs straight out, often kicking things, hitting car door or other furniture… Stares in mirror turning head slightly to the side, winking and holding for about 6-10 seconds, sometimes hits forehead on table softly. Involves me in tics, I must hold a position while he stares for a few seconds or he has to repeat it, telling me to first stand sideways or hold my arm in position it was previously in (for example) or I must touch things before he will do as asked, like touch the medicine on the table, He can’t find it, or pick up clothes on floor, needs me to touch them, (the right way) more than once sometimes. More, just can’t think now…. tired frustrated Mom.

I’m a middle-aged man who has had many of his animal sound tics replaced with me saying “monkies” in a squeaky voice. It’s relatively fun I suppose. I do miss some of my more elaborate ones “Quack-a-diddler, I like Bette Midler” and “Super-duper quack-a-thon.”

I hop every few steps, mostly on my right foot. I have been doing this for 2 years. It is quite an amusing tic and has resulted in people stopping the car and asking if I want a lift as they think I’m limping!

Just like the title says.. lol.. my 9 year old son grimaces, pulls his neck to the side, opens eyes wide and then gags.

I have to throw the dinner plate, cup, fork etc. in the air. It does become quite messy at times. Difficult if out at a restaurant.

I have to raise my right arm and bend my right hand are far back towards my forearm as possible while mentally counting to 7. It has to feel as if I have stretched my hand near my thumb and first finger enough. If I need to not do it visibly I can count to 7 repeatedly in my mind to relieve the urge to do it.

When I touch something I need to do the same with my other hand also I constantly crack my knuckles: Back, neck… anything really.

My son is 7 years old and has many tics that change all the time. From eye twitching to a screeching vocal tic to hitting himself. This doesn’t happen 24/7 as they wax and wane but it does affect his life. He has one tic on a few occasions where his neck jerks back which is very frustrating for him as he needs to where a neck brace when this happens.

I jump and kick my bottom with my heels.

I twist and flex my neck and head to the left side, usually followed by the ‘eye opener’ where I open both eyes as wide as I can for a moment. Its the most embarrassing tic I have done to date.

I bring my middle fingers down to my palm, while keeping them as rigid as long as I can.

Whenever I eat while I’m chewing my food I make popping sounds by puckering my lips.

The first of many tics for my son. Now my other son mouths his sentence after he says it most of the time.

this is one of my most common, and has earned me a nickname – i widen my eyes and pull my mouth down at the corners, kind of like doing an impression of Beaker from the muppets. Occasionally accompanied by his meemeemee noises too…!

I burp a lot, especially when I’m in a situation where I feel like I shouldn’t.

When very stressed and tired I sometimes have involuntary repetition of part of the sentence I have just said. Sometimes when very tired my speech feels really ‘difficult’ and I feel that I am using simpler language, or my speech just comes out all garbled.

I bob the top half of my body down and up quickly. This only seems to happen in the kitchen. I think it is related to worrying about eating, as I used to have OCD issues of fear of being greedy (having rules about how much I would allow myself to eat).

I repeatedly rub my right index finger above my left eyebrow. Faster the greater my social anxiety.

I was once looking in the ‘n’ section of a dictionary and read the phrase ‘nitrogen narcosis – raptures of the deep’. My mind repeatedly said this phrase for ages, a bit like a song/tune you cannot stop mentally repeating.

My mind says a particular swear word which I really do not like and would never say, then I have to repeatedly mentally say a particular phrase about not swearing.

When I click my laptop mouse I rapidly nod my head forwards.

I make a shushing sound, sometimes people think I’m telling them to stop talking!

My son’s most complex tic is jerking his head to one side while scrunching up his face, blinking, flaring his nostrils, clenching his fists and cracking his toes. All at the same time. It’s really quite impressive.

I have a tic that twitches my ear… mostly my right ear, rarely the left. It can be very annoying because when i have headphones in my ear, they will move out of place or fall out and i will have to keep fixing them. They can be very hard to control.

When i was 9 years old, i used to squeak spontaneously. it was very hard to tell people that i had tourette syndrome because they didn’t understand what it was. it was very hard to play hide and go seek!

One of my tics is when i touch something with one hand, i like to “even it out” with the other.

For a period of time my son would yell “I HAVE LICE!” upon entering a building. I used to joke that I developed a tic myself saying “No, no he doesn’t” directly afterwards to the startled people staring.

Sometimes I breath in making it sound like a gasp, it’s a hard tic to control when people are driving… my tic might make them crash.

My daughter is 9 and we started noticing tics when she was 4. Right now her tics are very minimal. A cycle of throat clearing, sniffing and coughing, paired up with a little throat “peep”. They tend to follow a pattern, but not always.

My son grunts and snorts up to at least 400 times in an hour. he says he has to clear his throat but when he has finished he starts the process all over again.

One of my more recent tics is making a squealing of “eeeekk” sound like I’m scared. My boyfriend got confused the first time he heard this one because he thought he was scaring me with his driving. He said he’ll have to get used to this one so he doesn’t think he’s scaring me every time I do it. LOL.

My 8 year old daughter clears her throat numerous times a day but the highest wax period was when she was doing it around 2500 times a day and her voice would be raw at the end of the day. She was just worn out when she went to bed. This waned for a bit over the summer which was a gift. She also has OCD and has some habits like sniffing and licking her fingers, rubbing her bangs out of her eyes countless times, pulling at eyelashes on occasion and picking her underwear. We must have tried every type of undergarment on the market. Her anxiety at the moment is the most challenging. Despite all of these challenges over the past year, she is proving to be the most amazing brave young lady. I am so proud of her.

Our son has recently started making sounds like a fire engine siren. We thought he was just doing it as a behaviour but he is also doing it at school. -Scott (blog: www.leakybrakesandquirkykids.com)

I have a lot of tics which are just random words, and the newest is ‘KITCHEN SINK!’, which I find funny because of the ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ expression, and now I’ve had every tic INCLUDING the kitchen sink!

My seven year old son puts his finger in his belly button and rubs it. It’s causing infections and many other issues.

Amongst the many tics that I’ve had was the straight glasses check. I would scrunch up my face, often one cheek at a time to see if it touched my glasses. Then I would scrunch both to check if my glasses were straight. Then I would have to yank my glasses to “straighten”" them (even if they felt straight). This one was terrible because after awhile of yanking on my glasses they actually would become tilted and I’d do the tic more often.

I twitch my head forwards and back and forth.

My son’s tics are often mistaken for allergies or colds, because he constantly clears his throat and makes a coughing sound. He also blinks and flares his nostrils, blows on his hands or bottom lip, shrugs shoulders, swears when he’s really frustrated or excited, and stretches out his first two fingers in a V in every time he reaches for something, like in between each handful of popcorn.

I have too many tics to list. So many buzzwords, either stuff I picked up from others or invented myself. They can be said quietly, shouted or even typed. If I were to list them all, it would easily fill a page.

i scream out at the top of my lungs “BANG” scaring people to the point of jumping.

I bring my right arm up in a fast motion and down in a fast motion and say, “Yes!”

My 6 year old daughter loves the feeling of screaming. We will be grocery shopping and she will get the urge to “scream!!!!!!!!!!!” I say let her go and she will scream until she she gets it all out. I think to myself, this too shall pass.

the oooooooooooo sound makes me feel good and it sometimes helps when i have an itchy throat but most of the time i just do it for fun. i learn the “ooooooo” sound from my dad because he lust does it to make everybody laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My son looks over his left shoulder, while walking, fills nearly every silence with constant hums, and often sniffs. He usually twirls in a circle when changing directions. We cannot hold hands when crossing the street (I hold his wrist or sleeve instead) because of his need to touch his fingers together a particular way. Thankfully, he moved away from tics he had last year that were causing some minor injury (rubbing under his eye under it was red and raw for example).

Along with physical tics my son also stutters and yells aaah! aah! and at the end when he is very frustrated and tired he will end with his I know, I know tic.

Every time my seven year old son finishes putting his sneakers on, he has to jump in the air with two feet. If it isn’t high enough then he will do it again and again until he feels it was just right.
We are late a lot! LOL

I always cross my big toe over my second toe, much like someone who is displaying “tight friends” with their fingers. I do this with or without shoes, but the worst is in my hockey skates, because they’re so tight. Most games I end up with a toe that’s fallen asleep.

I open my mouth wide to try and pop my ears. It’s driving me crazy!

My son has a foot shuffling tic. He will walk a few steps, stop, and grind the front of his foot into the ground, then keep on walking until he has to do it again. I call it the ‘shoe destroying tic’ because he has quickly worn out a few pairs of shoes, to the point that his foot actually breaks through the sole after just a couple months of wearing them.

My daughter has to flick her belly button with her thumb and forefinger.

Shrugging shoulders then yanking arms back until shoulder blades touch.

Have you ever seen the chocolate commercial where the eyebrows of these two little kids go crazy?
That is what my eyebrows feel like.
Between scrunching, raising, expanding, and lowering; I have my own personal rollar coaster!

This is what my family and I refer to as my ‘classic verbal tic’. I would usually have to repeat this idiom many times, and many different ways before the itch was gone. “Subah!”

When my daughter gets really frustrated she swears. She hates it and it makes her more frustrated.

my son rubs under his nose with his finger regulary at least once every 5 minutes if not more. He says his nose is really itchy.

My son shakes his head from side to side, we thought he was doing it because his hair was getting in his eyes. So we cut his hair but he still needs to shake his head every few minutes.

I always say “eeeeee”

Duck head toward the opposite shoulder and smoothly bring it back to center.

My son opens his mouth as wide as it can go.

My son lifts his big toe up so it is pointing to the ceiling. He’s actually worn through a leather sneaker doing this tic.

My son clenches his buttocks muscles and then relaxes them…over and over.

I have a lot of vocal tics but by far, my two favourite words to either just repeat or shout out loud are “taters” and “juicy”.

Right now, my 9 year old son hums constantly.

He will fluctuate between that and clicking his tongue, then sniffing and making gutteral noises. then there is the eye blinking, shoulder shrugging, popping his shoulders out of joint, grimacing and snapping his fingers.

Right before this humming episode he was going through a bad one where he had to Blink, Sniff, Grimace then make a deep gutteral noise, all in a row. That one lasted about 2 months. Whew.

Knocking knees together repeatedly while sitting or standing.

Lowering chin to neck with mouth wide open, then snapping jaw closed.

Attempting to use big toe and the one next to it to “snap” like a person would snap their fingers.

I put my upper lip over my teeth and such in air forcefully! This makes a very realistic sounding bird chirping noise that sounds like a little parakeet. People will say “Is there a bird in here?” when I’m around because they really think there is a bird somewhere! My friends think it’s really cool and cute!

I blink my eyes all the time!! Makes it hard to see

I hit myself in the chest, left arm, or stomach pretty forcefully with my right hand balled in a fist. I always hit with my right hand and I always hit with the inside of the hand closed in a fist.

it’s a really loud yell of WAHHH!!! or AAAAHH!!! sometimes WAHHH AAAAHH!!!

I cock my head to the side then down towards my shoulder

I have to blow at anyone that burps,yawns, or i can hear breath.

My seven year old yelps like a dog and blinks his eyes left to right .

Over the years I have adapted to suppress this tic as best I can till I can let it go.

Whenever I spoke to anyone face to face I used to smack them. Usually whatever body part was closest at the time. I lost a lot of potential friends growing up because of that one.

Now, as I am in my forties, I have modified it so I don’t repel people anymore. As I begin to reach out to smack them I can catch it, and I grasp the persons arm or hand. Sometimes I will hug the person…it has made for some awkward parent teacher interviews at my kids school….lol

it’s just a quick flick of the wrist that no one ever really notices but if I’m holding something when it happens whatever it is goes flying and everyone notices

My son has these as well as hand flapping, throat noises and sometimes arches himself backwards. He also stretches his neck and eyes. We are so forturnate that he has a great group of friends that seem to accept his tics. He also has slight OCD, and ADHD, and does have some anxiety issues. SO thankful for the resources that are becoming more available. =D

I nod my head like I’m saying ‘yes’ emphatically, and I blink my eyes hard and fast.

I scrunch my face and move my nose side to side but nothing relieves the “itch.”

My son tilts his head to the left and looks waaaay up to the right.

Its like a two syllable giggle, (ha – ha) with the first one being low and the first one like a high pitched squeak. The high pitch feels good only when I hit the perfect pitch!

I raise my arms in the air and jerk them up and down and flap my hands.

I stomp my feet really hard and hop up and down.

I twist my neck to one side then the other side.

Scrunching up the eyes and blinking really hard many times

I twist my neck from side to side and throw it backwards

I sniff and make guttural sounds

I make an “uh uh” sound and call out “ho” a lot.

It took doctors over thirty years to even find out I had Tourette Syndrome let alone what this awful annying tic was caused by. It sounds like a snorting sound but it is like blowing your nose in reverse as it actually clears the back of my nose near my sinuses of mucous. It is not too bad when I am healthy and free of anxiety but when I get a bad cold, especially with a sore throat, it really makes my life miserable. I have lived with it for 47 years and all the ear, nose and throat specialists in Canada that I saw could not figure it out until one day I was very lucky to finally have been correctly diagnosed with Tourette Symdrome, along with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, OCD and ADHD. It was a relief at least to finally know what was making me have to do this tic. I have always hated it, especially in school where I was teased about it all the time because it is unfortunately very audible in a quiet room. I always dread a sore throat because this tic makes it ten times worse. It seems like a rare tic because none of my doctors have ever seen it before and it started when I was about six years old if my memory serves me correctly. I am 53 now.

I tense the muscles and lift my shoulder to my ear. I try to stretch it out and end up constantly scrunching and stretching. One would think when your muscles got sooo sore your body would stop doing it, but alas it does not.