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Tourette's and Selective Mutism: Do Vocal Tics Stop When Mute?

royalty

618d

Does anyone else with Tourette's and selective mutism find that when your mutism kicks in while you're ticcing your vocal tics stop? I've been going mute a lot as of late and I've noticed I stop having complex vocal tics when I'm mute.

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    • Jessy4532

      483d

      Yes I scared me at first lol

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    • Jessy4532

      483d

      Yes I scared me at first lol

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    • Wednesday_7

      488d

      Actually yes. When I lose speech I physically cannot get sounds out my mouth so my vocal tics don’t work. I sometimes halfway mouth the vocal tic, but no noise comes out and my mouth freezes halfway through.

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    • Igglepiggle

      489d

      I just have motor tics not Tourette’s but I’ve found my tics are worse when I’m mute as my anxiety is really bad and that triggers both, it’s very embarrassing

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    • IsabellaJ

      591d

      Yes!!! People always think I'm faking because of it, but I just learned sign language so it's never been a real problem, and whenever people think faking I kick em to the curb, they don't deserve us

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    • MushroomFern

      617d

      YES! people always think I'm faking tics because of it

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    • DollyLeeQuacks

      618d

      What triggers your mutism? I pretty heavily relate.

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      • royalty

        618d

        @DollyLeeQuacks Usually stress or anxiety but lately I've been having these "staring spells" and then right after I just go mute.

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        • DollyLeeQuacks

          617d

          @royalty I have suffered from this a lot. Recently I hung out with someone (no longer a friend) and was having a "staring" and mutism moment to which they yelled "Stop staring at me! Jesus!" And that alone has made it so much worse

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