From the Providence Journal:

Alicia Vanasse attends Rhode Island College full-time. She is an honor student, vice president of the senior class and president of the Communications Club. She has a job as an intern in the college’s public relations office. She has friends. She dates. She owns a car, a midnight blue convertible Sebring that she loves in the way people do when they are young and the car means freedom.

She also has Tourette syndrome. Three years ago, a college life would have been unimaginable for Alicia. Now, thanks to new medication and supportive college staff, she is thriving.

“I’ve always been ‘that girl with Tourette’s,’ ” she said. “But here I’ve been given the chance to just be Alicia. People have been willing to work with me, to help me. I haven’t found that anywhere else.”

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