Aspergers Comorbid With Tourette's

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I read that 59% of Tourette's people are Aspies that developed TS sometime in childhood/adolescence. So it's very, very possible for the two disorders to be comorbid. I've even come to a point where I think I know the difference between what for me are tics and what are stims, both of which I have several. So I think my case is most likely comorbid Tourettes/Aspergers.

I'm just wondering if there is anyone here who's had experience with Tourettes coming along with Aspergers? Anything I need to know about this particular variation of both syndromes?

My Right leg will involuntary shake from time to time when somebody gets too close to me when talking to me. Im usually in the bar and been drinking when it happens. Im not competly sure if it falls under tourttee's syndrome or not, but it may just be a side effect of drinking but i highly doubt it. My leg starts shaking so bad that i feel like im going to collapse to the floor because it feels like my leg is giving out.

That on it's own is not Tourette's. For a diagnosis of Tourette's, you need something like at least 2 motor tics and 1 vocal tic that occur many times a day every day for over a year, or something like that. I myself have a single eye blinking tic. It occurs *many* many times a day, every day. Your leg thing sounds like it may be related to anxiety.

I have a mild form of tourettes and HFA, I vocal tic a lot, and twitch too, I also have times where I can't stop spinning my head, yes weird haha.

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Just kidding, I don't have TS... However, many of the TS symtoms are similar to ASD symtoms (some TS-related tics may appear to be related to stims, for example), so I'm not surprised that there would be a suspicion of comorbidity...

once a month, I will say something intense that makes no sense at all.

I'm diagnosed with tourettes and aspergers....i think the anxieties triggered by the aspergers sets of my tourettes...

Sometimes I say bad words or call people bad names and i can control it. Thats only a recent development though.

This is quite interesting. I have Tourette's Syndrome but also have some aspie traits, e.g. obsessive interests and difficulties in socialising. I have never been diagnosed with Asperger's, but thinking about how different conditions can overlap, this makes a lot of sense. In fact, i've read that the same brain locations are shared in TS and autism. I don't know how valid this statement is, but I can see some possibility in it. For example - both conditions involve repetitive behaviours (tics in TS and stims in autism). Also, OCD is commonly diagnosed in both conditions which is probably where the obsessive traits in ASDs and the repetitive, compulsive behaviours that exist in both conditions originate from.

Hi,
I have AS. I was saying in another thread that sometimes I think innappropriate things without meaning to.
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Sinsboldly suggested that I might have Tourettes Syndrome but I don't, to my knowledge, have motor tics although I do stim.
I do, just about, manage to keep the obsceneties inside my head whilst other people are present.
I would really appreciate your thoughts please, thanks.

Hey,
Let me tell ya that only maybe a small percentage of the tourette community actually curse, usually most of the time its one particular curse over and over and over again. If its not said, then the person becomes very agitated and in pain due to not allowing the tic out. I have bad motor tics that affect my walking at times. If you have bad curse words going through your head, when its happening is it due to anxiety, anger, and what happens if you hold it in? Your motor tics are they due to anxiety, anger and same thing what happens if you hold it in? I have to tic sometimes, and if i dont it hurts. I've had bad coughing tics, facial tics i have a lot which sucks haha.

Thanks for the reply.
I really don't think I have motor tics, I do stim loads but if I notice then I can stop. Until I forget and I start up again lol.
The swearing is in context even though it's innapropriate and is in the form of sentences normally.
Since I don't have motor tics, I'm thinking it could be vocal tic disorder but then as I do just about manage to keep it inside my head it's probably not even that. Hmm.

Might be pent up aggression or anxiety coming out in a form of vocal stimming... try to hold it in, see what happens... good luck!

I like your message. Your message look great with that photo of your.

However, I am confused what is vocal and motor tics? What does tics mean?

Vocal tic, like echolila, or with me its loud screechs out of no where lol, or words over and over and over again, like coffee ugh that word haunts me lol, motor tics are when your body almost jerks, like my arm sometimes raises without my conscent lol, or i shrug my shoulders a lot, or swing my head real fast side to side, um or my leg kinda does this thump motion lol, or my whole body like jerks like im coming out of a siezure... stuff like that. Tic is something you cant always control, and if u dont tic, it like hurts, its like um somebody pushes a button in ur brain and u just do it, sometimes without even realizing... A stim is something u do to comfort yourself, which is what i do after i tic lol. Hope this helped alittle!

If that the case, I might get a tic but a rare occasion. I just simply shake for no reason like a energy surge. This energy surge is like getting a neck or back massage then it go away the same second that enter.