By Molly Knoedler, writing in the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press:

Tourette’s Syndrome doesn’t prevent me from doing the things I want to do. I play soccer and basketball. I’m in the school play. TS doesn’t threaten my health. So many people have (or had) TS and you probably don’t realize it. Samuel Johnson, a poet and critic who wrote “A Dictionary of English Language” had tic disorder. Jim Eisenreich, a famous baseball player, also struggled with TS but managed to continue playing baseball. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is believed to have TS, though experts are not sure.

I’ve had Tourette’s Syndrome for about a year now. I don’t know how long I’ll have to take medicine. Maybe there will be a cure found in my lifetime.

But there’s a saying that people with tic disorder have: “I have Tourette’s. Tourette’s doesn’t have me.”

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