Tourette's stories
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He didn’t say anything. But she sat anyway, like she always did—gently, respectfully, never afraid of his moods. She didn’t look directly at him. She watched the trees instead.
Kevin gave her sixty seconds before she said something. That was her rhythm.
“You’re ticking more today.”Forty-two seconds. He should’ve known.
“Don’t—” He winced, his head twitching left, a short squeak of sound escaping him. “Don’t talk about it.”
“Why not?”Another vocal tic broke loose—sharp, breathy, almost like a whistle. He covered his mouth. His hand kept spasming.
Renee didn’t flinch.“Because it’s embarrassing,” Kevin snapped, voice too loud, too raw. “Because I can’t fucking control it, and they look at me like I’m—like I’m broken.”
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Kevin Day battles the internal shame of living with Tourette’s in a world that demands control. With quiet support from Renee and his team, he begins to accept that being seen doesn’t mean being broken and learn more about himself than he expected.--
Written by a girl who has Tourette's and the mental health battles that comes with it and her favorite foxes are Renee and Kevin so why wouldn't they have it too?Series
- Part 1 of Kevin Day vs Tourette's Syndrome
- Part 1 of Tourette's stories
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Kevin wasn’t good.
But he could fake it.
Until he couldn’t.
Neil passed the ball. Kevin caught it, but his left arm spasmed. The stick dropped. His knees hit the floor a second later.
“Kevin?”
Kevin’s breath caught—too fast, too shallow. His chest heaved like he’d been sprinting.
Then it officially started.
Kevin’s body jerked again, hard—his head snapped to the side, and his right arm shot out, slamming into the floor with a force that made his teeth rattle. He couldn’t focus. He couldn’t control it.
His breath was ragged, uneven, like he was choking on air. The whistle tics came next—sharp and high-pitched, cutting through the night air in an almost painful shriek.
Neil froze.
—Kevin Day has spent years hiding the worst parts of his Tourette’s. But when a severe tic attack hits during midnight practice, he's forced to share this part of himself with Neil and Andrew, who help him through it.
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Written by a girl with Tourette’s who knows what it’s like to feel out of control—and believes Kevin deserves support, softness, and people who stay.Series
- Part 2 of Kevin Day vs Tourette's Syndrome
- Part 2 of Tourette's stories
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Buck hated the unpredictability of it all—the way his brain could speed up until it felt like he was running a marathon on a treadmill no one else could see. There were days his own thoughts scared him, spiraling out of control with no brakes in sight. And then there were the tic attacks—those overwhelming episodes that left him exhausted, nauseous, and often physically ill.
He hated it.
Hated having ADHD. Hated having Tourette’s.
There was no quirky upside. No magical, misunderstood genius buried under the chaos. Just exhaustion. Shame. A desperate need to feel normal for once.
It wasn’t fun.
It wasn’t interesting.
It was fucking hell.
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Evan Buckley has spent years hiding his Tourette’s from his team, from his friends, and especially from Eddie. Bobby’s the only one who knows, and Buck intends to keep it that way. He can’t risk losing what he’s finally found—family, belonging… and maybe something more with the man who’s become the center of it all. But when a severe tic attack hits the station, Buck’s secret unravels.—
Written by a girl with Tourette’s who knows what it’s like to live in fear of being too much! For Tourette's awareness month!Series
- Part 3 of Tourette's stories
- Part 1 of Buck Buckley Has Tourette’s
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Buck had always hated the cold.
It wasn’t a new thing—it went all the way back to his childhood in Hershey, where East Coast winters meant single-digit temperatures and snow that blanketed everything.
Now, years later, he has grown. A firefighter. Living in L.A., far from Hershey’s snowbanks. But he still hated the cold.
Because it still made his tics worse.
And now, thanks to the ladder truck accident, it made the chronic pain in his leg worse too.
Which…made his tics worse as well, cause of course it would. Buck couldn’t catch a break in the winter.
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Buck might've told Eddie and his team about having Tourette's, but he also left out some of the triggers for his tics, the cold being one of them. So when the 118 gets called to a missing person rescue in the woods during a cold rainstorm. Buck struggles to keep his tics in control, leading to some misunderstandings with Eddie.
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Written by a girl with Tourette’s!Series
- Part 4 of Tourette's stories
- Part 2 of Buck Buckley Has Tourette’s