50,000 people in Australia live with tic-related conditions

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Ambassador for the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia James Sayers says through his experience the best way to live with tourettes is by focusing on his attitude.

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00:00When I was growing up, more, you know, high school, I was always focusing and ruminating

00:10on thoughts like, you know, how unfair it was and, you know, thinking about, like, what

00:17the future is going to be and, like, why did it have to happen to me? And, you know, it

00:22was, it was obviously making it worse because my, my, I guess my perception of myself was

00:27that I'm different and I'm, I'm defective, but it was when I started, I guess, coming

00:33to terms and saying, okay, well, this is a part of me, like this, this is my hand. I

00:39learned more to embrace it. You know, I found, I found humor in the amount of keyboards I broke

00:47and I could then, I, you know, I started setting a good example and I started leading by example

00:56and helping people like, like younger kids with Tourette's. And it was with that attitude

01:02I thought, well, you know, this is, this is something I'm going to use and not let it define

01:06me.

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