I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me Quotes

I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me is a TV show that was first aired in 2005 . I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me completed its run in 1970.

It features Ellen Goosenberg Kent as producer, and Buddy Squires as head of cinematography.

Each episode of I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me is 27 minutes long. I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me is distributed by HBO.

I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me Quotes

• (Unnamed) "I feel just kind of funny inside. I say, like, why can't I stop doing this? Why can't I stop doing this?"

• (Unnamed) "I feel confident because I know one kid, one friend, is going to accept me no matter what I do."

• (Unnamed) "There's a point in a friendship -- where they ask, I've always wondered; can you stop it? Can you, like, just stop?"

• (Unnamed) "It's been a tough ride, an emotional roller coaster. But yet I still moved on by reading, and by drawing, and by being myself."

• (Unnamed) "They called me a monster. I felt terrible. I felt like I was evil."

• (Unnamed) "Kids with Tourette's Syndrome are just like any other kid, just with a few disabilities. But overall, we're like you."

• (Unnamed) "When I try to hold back too much, you can't think of anything except holding them back, and you can't think of anything except doing them."

• (Unnamed) "Stand up, dust yourself off, and say, you know what, this sucks, but I'm gonna have to deal with it."

• (Unnamed) "I start thinking things about myself, like I am different, there is something wrong with me, maybe they're right. I start getting doubts in my mind. So it is more what other people think than your own opinion. It's their opinions that affect you."

• (Unnamed) "I'm doing it so much that it drains my energy, and I can't handle it. I just get tired. It's also embarrassing."

• (Unnamed) "I hope that people accept me for who I am, and that I don't have to be these other people, I can just be me. I want other people to think: Oh, she's really cool; she's my friend, she has Tourette's Syndrome, whatever."

• (Unnamed) "You can't hold in a sneeze; you can't hold in a cough -- you can't hold in a yawn forever. It doesn't feel right. That's kind of like when I have a tic, and that's how hard it is to stop. So when you see me doing something annoying, it's not because I want to, it's just more like I have to."

• (Unnamed) "Tics are -- like an itch, like you have to, like scratch it. You just -- do it. It's like controlling you, and you feel like you have to do it or something's going to happen."

• (Unnamed) "I had a second grade teacher who wasn't very understanding -- She was always, like, Why are you doing that? Why can't you sit still? Stop cracking your knuckles; it's rude.""

• (Unnamed) "Tourette's Syndrome --"
• (Unnamed) "well, there it is."

• (Unnamed) "I just felt like I wanted to burst out in tears. But I kind of did in school sometimes, because I just couldn't keep it in. People would ask, like, "Why are you crying?" -- The people who make fun of me saying, "Why are you crying?" and it"s like, "Well, you should know.""

• (Unnamed) "People stare. But -- you've gotta just let 'em stare."

• (Unnamed) "When I'm having a bad day and all my tics are coming out, I go really pretty much crazy."

• (Unnamed) "You feel like a marked man, like people already know you when they don't."

• (Unnamed) "I think it's important to tell one person -- one year later there might be millions of people -- just because of that one person."

• (Unnamed) "Holding them back just gives me this feeling of tenseness like everything's kind of cramped together and all your muscles are, like, contracted."

• (Unnamed) "Now I'm starting to speak out, and be myself, and try to make sure Tourette's doesn't ruin my life."

• (Unnamed) "Tourette's just makes me feel different sometimes. And that's hard when it's all about fitting in. I don't want to be an outcast from everybody."

• (Unnamed) "Whoever has tics will be a person still. It's not like you're bad or anything, don't know anything. You're still a human even though you have Tourette's."

• (Unnamed) "Before you go into school, you really need to tell people that you have Tourette's, or else it's going to be a big, big hard time for you."

• (Unnamed) "I found out that when I'm relaxed and just feeling really calm, I don't really twitch a lot. When I get really into the piano, I get into my own zone, so Tourette's is, I don't even know that I have it when I'm in my zone."

• (Unnamed) "There's a point in a friendship with someone with Tourette's -- where they ask, I've always wondered; can you stop it? Can you, like, just stop?"

• (Unnamed) "People at school"
• (Unnamed) "just looking me down. And they want to get me out of the way in some different class where I wouldn't disrupt them."

• (Unnamed) "I hate substitutes. Substitutes and Tourette's Syndrome don't mix."

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