[a moment] with a beetroot

[moment 211]

There's this kid I know who has lived with chronic pain, dislocations, subluxations, ADHD, and anxiety their entire life. They have recently been diagnosed with dysautonomia. And just yesterday they were diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome. The kid can't catch a break.

Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by sudden, repetitive, rapid, and unwanted movements and/or vocal sounds called tics. They have both vocal and motor tics and are mostly dealing with them with a sense of humor. They are learning what is safe and not safe for them, with their propensity for throwing things and/or launching their head violently backwards (sitting on a stool didn't go so well and a recent shopping trip was made quite interesting by the child nearly throwing themself backwards into a display). 

So, if one of my children gives you the finger or calls you a beetroot or shushes you, they're probably not being rude - it's the tics. Unless it's one of the four that does not have TS. Then they're just being rude and you can  be rude right back to them, you beetroot.