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11/23/2014 9:23:44 AM
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My life as a gamer...with tourettes

Hi my name is dominick but you can call me mango or derp i am an 18 year old gamer that suffers from tourettes. i know what your gonna say is how can you suffer from tourettes well here is how i have a muscle spasm or twitch in my neck,legs,arms,wrists,toes,fingers,eye lids,shoulders etc. but what you don know is how i am affected by this. i have a hard time playing due to this twitch. if im hot i will start twiching badly,if im too cold i will twitch badly, if i see someone move their neck i will start twitching the list goes on. i actually dropped out of school because people made fun of me to the point to where i have a hard time trusting people... if i do trust you you are a lucky lucky person because when i was made fun of they would try to say sorry be my friend and then stab me in the back. i started playing xbox 3-4 years ago meeting new people some of them being cool and some of them i had as a friend for a long time. but i started playing xbox for one reason that no one would know who i am and what condition i have so i dont get picked on virtually i enjoy some of the people on xbox others are just complete ass wholes and you probably know who you are. i have had a wonderful experience on live meeting new people and having fun call of duty was my main game but then i started playing forza 3/4 and started drifting was i a good drifter yes and no i was a monster at drifting when the temperature in my room was right which it wasn't to my liking all the time. but when i have my twitch session i tend to get mad easily i dont really know why. i also played halo 2-4 but stopped at a low rank because i wanted to try something new. i started playing battlefield bad company 2/BF3/BF4 and met my first team on bf3 i enjoyed it alot played countless hours of bf3. then bf4 came out then i was excited but soon stopped playing with my team around the time gta5 came out i started to play it alot clocking 10 days in the first 3-4 weeks the online was released. i know im a no life but you dont have to call me that as i get enough from my mom sister and brother. soon after that i started playing world of tanks meeting someone who will change my life forever a really good friend who has made my friendship pretty cool i will trust him with my life any time and any where.... ok i bet your wondering how i got tourettes well i dont excatly but the thing i do think how i got it was when i was playing in my middle school gym i went in the air after a football and so did one of the other kids well lets say i went down on my tail bone almost breaking it and hit my head to the point where i had lost the feeling in my legs for about 3 minutes. i didnt remember the incident at all until they showed me video from the gym office. after that i started to twitch and now i realize it wont go away. i take a medicine called Risperidone it kinda helps with my twitching but i still have the attacks when i get hot or cold or when i hear someone say the word twitch.i just want people to know that there are gamers out here who became a gamer not by the thought or hey i want to game for a living but forced to try something that will change their life and make it fun i dont live a normal life i should have a car be in college becoming something but i cant drive because of my twitching and i cant stay still in class making it difficult for others to learn. i get looked at weird in public and it really hurts me that some one or anyone has not seen a human before like really you haven't seen a male human. i want people to know that people arent on xbox for fun but for a life a new beginning or the start of a new life/beginning. my tourettes is hard to deal with because it hurts mainly my neck because it is stiff as hell all the time. well that kinda sums up how i start my journey on the xbox 360 for a new life and hope to meet new and cool people.

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  • You ever get an xbox one, look me up. My raid group and I will get you through the raid and help you out, if you ever need help with the grind that is destiny, I'm happy to help out. Keep on fighting. Great story. Always remember, just because something hinders you a bit, fight through it and always strive for greatness. Gt is same as above.

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