Richard Paul Evans Quotes

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.

Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing.

I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.

People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?

I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.

I'm on television, ticcing and twitching. I think that's kind of cool.

Living with Tourette's is not easy.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.

If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.

Autism is a very serious condition.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who didn't like himself very much. It was not his fault. He was born with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is something that happens to the brain. It means that you can think but sometimes can't walk, or even talk.

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.

ADHD isn't a bad thing, and you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD.

I haven't felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.

We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.