m the mom of a 10 yr old daughter. I've always know since she was little that there was something different but couldn't really put a name to it. At 3 she repeated the last word of her sentence over and over.."My breakfast is good, good, good, good, good." This lasted for a long time probably 2 years or so. After this went away she started sucking in her stomach constantly!! She also always made lots of noises. She had a throat clearing thing for months that finally went away.
Now that she is 10 these tics have increased a lot! She has a head twitch that she does quite often (quickly swinging her head all the way to the left over and over again), random squawking like a bird, opera singing (I'm still unsure if this is a tic or not lol), and when walking she always looks over her left shoulder, saying "mmmmmm" under her breath over and over (this one strangely gets much worse when she watches TV). These are all the most recent ones.
Just a few weeks ago I came across the TS info when I googled "repeating words" ...I was always puzzled by why she did this. Once I started reading I just felt like I finally could put a name to this strange behavior and it all made sense finally!
I've had a talk with her last week about the tics...at first she completely denied them but then I told her about one that I had when I was little (I always felt immense pressure behind my eyes and would open them as wide as I could over and over again) and she finally opened up. It was amazing! It was the happiest I have seen her in a really long time she had a huge smile on her face and was telling me about some tics she has that I wasn't even aware of. It seems she knows she does some of them but others she is completely unaware of.
We're going to our Dr. tonight to get a referral to take her to a neurologist...I'm just a little concerned because it seems to be affecting her work at school. The teacher says she is often spaced out and not focusing. I've asked her if she's noticed the tics and she says she hasn't...I'm thinking that my daughter is trying so hard to contain these tics at school that she's concentrating on that more than her work. When she gets home she tics like crazy!!! I feel like by getting a diagnosis it will help me get help for her at school..the teacher keeps telling me "she can focus, she just doesn't want to" This infuriates me!! I also think that it may help my DD to be able to put a name to what is going on. She seemed to be kind of depressed lately but I've seen a lot of that disappear just talking to her about the tics and telling her they are just a part of who she is and she's beautiful It's really amazing how happy she gets when we talk about it now...some of them she thinks are funny and I can tell that she must have been very concerned about them and possibly thinking something was very wrong with her and was scared.
Just looking for some input and wondering if this sounds like TS?