Billie Eilish

And as soon as I leave the room, I have to let them all out with whatever, you know.

Right.

I know it so well.

God.

Now imagine those intrusive thoughts, but your mouth has to say them out loud.

Right.

And that is Tourette syndrome.

Right.

And I think what's troubling about the way that people do not understand what Tourette's is, like when people are like, you know, if I like start having like a tick attack or whatever, like a lot of ticks in a row and people are like, are you okay?

You know, it's like, yeah, this is very much normal.

Yeah.

Like, you know, and also like, well, I didn't notice.

It's like,

if you didn't see me tick today, you're not looking at my knees, which are ticking constantly under this table and my, you know, elbows that are like, I'm clenching my arms the entire time.

And I'm, I'm doing this for the entire, and it's because I'm currently, because I'm on camera and I'm having a conversation and I'm trying not to be distracting.

I am,

really doing it this whole time as fun as i'm having much fun as i'm having i'm doing everything i can to suppress every single tick that's visible from the top of my head to about right here you know and that's like how we as people with Tourette's pretty much spend our days and some people don't even have the privilege of getting to suppress them right at all in any way right and the

the not understanding of that is really frustrating as a person with Tourette's.

And I'm really happy you did this.

I'm such a fan of yours, and I am so beyond excited to be in this room with you and do this podcast.