Diff between tourettes and stimming?

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I had ticks in my eyelids when I was taking antipsychotics; Abilify was the worst for that. I sometimes suddenly moved other body parts or they kind of jerked without really paying much attention or even realizing it sometimes. The psychs called them tics

Those are dyskinesias caused through an antipsychotic.

Well I think I saw you mention this once before Raziel, but didn't realize you were talking about the same thing! Isn't it a spasm of the eyelid muscle, not the eye? I'm female, but not hispanic, and I was young when it started being a bother...late 20's I think? It was right after a really major life change though. If it's 1 in 20,000 there should be a few of us in 70,000 members here on WP? People just called it a "tic" but never suggested tourettes probably because I am anything but twitchy and impulsive, lol...so I knew I did not have that but when the tic/stim subject came up I wasn't thinking "tourettes", I was only thinking how annoying that is not to be able to stop it, very unlike a stim. I have known one guy with tourettes, who apologized for having it when he meant to do something fun impulsively and hurt me instead, because he didn't know I had something wrong and I didn't think it was everybody's business. I didn't know what tourette's was until then. To me it was like all of his emotions were on high all the time, and he loved to start fun. But I understood it's not always fun too.

You and I seem to have quite a bit in common. I don't think I've mentioned it but Bipolar runs in both sides of my family too. When I have symptoms (never real bad as bipolar goes) it's usually in reaction to something and the rest of the time I'm okay. Like you say, stress makes things worse.

Sorry, I actually meant caucation and yes the eyelid, must have been tired.
And I'm also not an older woman.



No, a blepharospasm is not a real tic, it's more a spasm, but a highly gentic one.



Yes

[quote="phyrehawke"]I don't think I've mentioned it but Bipolar runs in both sides of my family too. When I have symptoms (never real bad as bipolar goes) it's usually in reaction to something and the rest of the time I'm okay. Like you say, stress makes things worse.[quote]

Actually in mine not really, but my half-brother was schizophrenic and also noone in my family is or was I know of and I have a Bipolar suspicion and also noone in my family had this diagnosis befor.
So I don't know what's going on here...!
But I have some BAD people in my family and many who are excentric.

tourettes = condition

stimming = activity

Individuals with Aspergers tend to stim, tic, or both because Aspergers and Tourettes some how function on the same spectrum. I blink and shrug my shoulders every day or so but your tics can decrease or increase. I had a lot of tics in high school, but not so much now after college. I tend to tic a lot in loud environments.

One thing I learned: do not hold in your tics. It feels like death. Like sometimes during work, I look down when it looks like I'm typing to blink. Try and find a way to do it without being to suspicious.