Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that strikes roughly 1 in 1000 children, usually between the ages of 6 and 9, but can occur as late as 21 years of age.
Verbal tics are much less common in occurrence.
However, because of the disturbance and disruption verbal tics often cause in public, they are the most common symptom the unknowing public associates with the disorder. Motor tics are the most common symptom and can cover a wide range from facial tics to tics involving arms, legs, feet, shoulders, etc. John was born in Louisiana in 1982 and first started having Tourette motor tics at the age of 8, about 6 years after the family moved to Houston, Texas. Our mission and goal is to provide the people with Tourette Syndrome, ADHD, ADD and OCD , along with their parents, grandparents, loved ones, educators, and medical professionals a true online community with numerous means of communicating with one another. For the first 2 years of our existence we provided mostly information to the Tourette-interested public.