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I tell people I have Tourette's. I don't have Tourette's. I'm missing one of the required criteria

- must have tics that begin before he or she is 18 years of age.

In a medical standpoint that makes it different, but in any practical sense the name conveys all of the information people need, it is perhaps unusual in that it is also a condition that occasionally requires rapid explanation.




> I'm missing one of the required criteria

Are you sure about that? Tics don't always manifest in obvious ways. You may well have had them in a very mild form but never noticed.




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