Anybody else have tics?

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Anybody else have tics? My tics are: clearing my throat, twisting my neck, shrugging my shoulders, coughing, snuffing my nose, and many more. I stop myself from doing one of them but then I start doing another. I should also say that I cause myself injury over them(Getting a bloody nose, a headache, sharp back pain, sore throat, etc.).
(Is "tics" the correct medical term for it? By the way, I am not talking about stimming.)
Do any of you other aspies have tics? Is it caused by asperger's, or do I have something else like tourette's? I don't have an official diagnosis.

I had tics when I was a kid, much less now.
I have a friend who has la Tourette's, and I definitely don't have it.

I alternately raise my eyebrows.

Nout befuddles the mundies like arbitrary facial movements. But honestly, I don't even know I'm doing it half the time. My right eyebrow will go up, then go down as the left goes up, and then back the other way.

How would you define the difference between tics and stimms? Anyone?

I guess for me tics are things that annoy others or myself like when I was younger I had this coughing tic which drove my parents crazy but now whatever I do, I realize I do to calm myself down and to help me focus, like tensing my stomach muscles, rubbing my fingers together, biting my tongue, cheeks or lips, bouncing my knees, twiddling my toes, rubbing my legs, humming, singing or whistling, rocking, etc. and since I actually enjoy some of them I would call them stimms. So to be honest I thought tics and stimms where the same?

yup

i used to have facial tics when i was younger (between 11 and 13) but now it's just little vocal things that nobody notices. i think it's Tourette's because 1) i fit the diagnostic criteria, and 2) my mom had tics and i've noticed tics in at least 3 of my cousins.

I clear my throat and I blink either tightly or excessively at times. Especially when I'm stressed. I'm not sure if thats a tic or a stim. I am unaware of it most of the time.

I also swallow frequently at times so that I "forget" how to swallow. If that makes sense. And then I get panicky.

I have an annoying tic involving my eyes that I hate because it often make people think I'm rolling my eyes at them. I also have a teeth-chattering tic that drives me nuts (it's not common teeth-grinding because it doesn't happen in my sleep).

I have tourettes and autism, my tics including shruggin my shoulders, leg jerks, facial jerks like my eye brows raising, i do this funny lip thing, so with me its mostly motor tics.

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I used to have that leg jerking tic too. I used to bug the crap out of all the other church goers when I was a teenager.

My dog, Winston, has ticks. My mom picks them off of him every day.

No, just kidding. I don't have any tics.

I have more ticks now than I did growing up. After a nerveous breakdown all hell broke loose.

Thanks for the explanation So I guess my tongue biting is a tic coz at times I can't stop that even though its sore and bleeding and the rest are stimms to a certain extend.

I can understand the nervous breakdown thing. I had one of them last year and since then everythings gone through the roof.

I have a few, but they're very few and far between.