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Tourette’s Isn’t What You Think: Tics, Pain & the Personal Cost | Aidy Smith, Pt 1
Part 1 of 2. Part Two will be released on Wednesday 11 November.
“What people know about it is absolutely not what Tourette’s is.” As a young boy, Aidy Smith was a rising children’s TV star. Within two weeks of his tics appearing, he’d lost it all. Today he’s an award-winning broadcaster, co-creator of Amazon Prime’s The Three Drinkers, and a Global Ambassador for the Tourette Association.
In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, host Meryem Hassan and Aidy explore what Tourette’s really is: the tics, the swearing myth, the chronic pain few people see, growing up misunderstood, why…
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