Josh's Diary: Growing Up with Tourette's

Josh has Tourette's Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal outbursts.

"It feels like there's a big balloon inside my stomach. And the balloon keeps growing bigger and bigger, like every second extra the tic stays inside it feels like somebody blows up the balloon another notch, until I let it out."


Josh's Diary was part of the Teenage Diaries series produced by Joe Richman/Radio Diaries. The series was originally broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered.

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