u/AshumArcade

Hello everyone. I am in my 30s and was diagnosed with Tourettes as a kid and I have both physical and vocal tics.

I cannot tic and breathe at the same time; every time a physical tic is happening to me, my breathing pauses for the duration of the tic. I've been recently wondering if this is normal, so I thought I'd ask here if other people with TS can't tic and breathe together.

Most of the time this issue isn't a big deal as my tics usually only last like a second or two, but I get very panicky when having a violent tic attack where I'm having tics with pretty much no gap between them so I cannot get enough air. Does anybody else here experience anything like this?