Girl With Real Tourette's Reacts To Billie Eilish | Does Billie Eilish Have Tourette's?

[@lisapeesalemonsqueezah3241]

It's crazy people are fake claiming her when they only reason she even came out about it was because people were noticing the tics and asking about it.

[@larissabrglum3856]

Right, she rarely talks about it, so the idea that it's for attention makes no sense.

[@lisapeesalemonsqueezah3241]

@@larissabrglum3856 and she's trying SO HARD to hide it! People are so quick to call women attention seekers, it's insane.

[@Doejrk]

Hypocrites.

[@ben0789]

@@larissabrglum3856 yea it makes me want to smack them on the back of the head.

[@itsbubbles4021]

Just because an artist doesn’t want for others to only know them for their disability doesn’t mean they dont have it. Same reason she never wanted to speak about her Tourette’s

[@somewhat-blue]

Yeah, the most important factor that makes me certain they’re real is how hard she’s clearly worked to hide them. A common therapy technique for TS is to teach people to camouflage tics with other purposeful actions, or relieving the sensation with a less obvious movement- she’s very clearly practiced at hiding hers, in a way someone who’s deliberately faking pretty much couldn’t be.

[@mscoot629]

Exactly

[@larissabrglum3856]

While I don't really know what suppressing tics looks like, I can definitely tell she's trying to play it cool.

[@minipretzels]

i think also the fact that you can see her brother, Finneas tick sometimes too.

[@mscoot629]

@@minipretzels you can? I never noticed

[@minipretzels]

@@mscoot629 i noticed he was ticking during a livestream of some acoustic covers during the pandemic :)

[@NativeNYerChicHK]

Billie has said that a lot of her tics that aren’t noticeable to others are muscle spasms, so while she’s seemingly sitting still she’s exhausting her body due to the constant repeated tightening and releasing of muscle in her arms and legs. And that people don’t realize how exhausting this all is.

[@trinajackson7178]

Yeah

[@melvinthebravefish9788]

"She's doing this for fame" Last I checked, she briefly took over the music world for singing, not for having tics....

[@maddfinn11]

For whispering you mean. Not singing

[@FigDaFloof]

@@maddfinn11 yeah you dont kbow jack shit about singing, look at her lives she is being plenty loud enough and she is hiting NOTES. Some that are very high. That is SI GING and look at happier than ever by her and skip around halfway through the vid. Tell me if THATS whispering

[@siriuslymeva]

@@maddfinn11 should get your ears checked, definitely concerning that you struggle to hear sound

[@bad_karma_blunt6840]

@@maddfinn11 this is how u know when ppl dk what singing is. She uses a lot of falsetto and a breathy-voice when singing to give her music more depth/sound more raw in a way. Research is ur bsf use it😑 Idk what happened to ur ears

[@707Honeypot]

@@maddfinn11 she is actually singing its a singing style that is breathy but the notes she can hit while singing softly and in that breathy sound is actually incredibly difficult. I’ve seen a lot of people equate it to whispering, but its a lot more complicated than that

[@turnersgauge3430]

With an untrained eye it is easy to overlook it. I never would’ve thought she had Tourette’s! My heart goes out to her, and to you!

[@evanmbxx8897]

My feeling about the people that compile the 'tic ' compilations of Billie, don't always recognize what they are looking at. While yes, a lot of real tics were shown in the compilation that you reacted to; a lot of the footage doesn't actually show her tics. I feel the compiler was definitely trying too hard to find tics to add.

[@TiccingTogether]

100%

[@mscoot629]

Agree

[@AngryLittleSponge]

Agree, some were just regular facial expressions. Raising an eyebrow isn't necessarily a tic - Some people are just more expressive/reactive with their facial expressions whether that be subconsciously or consciously. While I believe Billie does have tourettes some of these just seemed like regular facial expressions or movement. I think she is naturally expressive - she is very animated when she talks. Maybe that's a result of tourettes - maybe to try and hide when she does tic so that they "blend" in more but she definitely does seem to be quite animated naturally when she is responding or engaging with people. You could see her tic in the first clip very clearly even if it was a subtle kind of tic (slight head/neck jerk). But when she was in the car with James Corden I couldn't notice any tic's there... But granted, I'm not an expert! Maybe she was suppressing? But I couldn't notice any specific tic's there for example.

[@yasminh]

yeah

[@GamerKenley0009]

100% agree

[@rhinestone04]

i remember a video of her trying to hide her ticks while performing... i don't have tourette's but it was so hard to watch, she covered her face with her hand, ducked her head and tried so hard not to let people see it... she looked so ashamed of it, i wanted to give her the biggest hug 🥺

[@lol324misty]

i love u for that

[@Keevthe6thunderChristJesus]

That vid was so fake

[@Dragons445]

​@@Keevthe6thunderChristJesus excuse you?

[@HarryToeface]

I will say this, she has gotten so good at masking her tics with her regular body language that to be honest I never really noticed until this video. Massive kudos to you for making it obvious she's not lying.

[@diy_cat9817]

I'm sure as a teen it's extra frustrating to have an eye rolling tic. Her ticks are so .. "obnoxious" like, if someone did this while talking to you and it WASN'T a tic, you'd think you were being disrespected. Like, imagine being Billie and cultivating this "idc, I do what I want", cool, edgy girl aesthetic and OF COURSE your tics happen to look like you being a little brat. It must be so frustrating.

[@brendaleelydon]

I wonder if it was sort of the other way, where her 'public tics' (ie., her tics that bleed through when she's trying to suppress) seem bratty/disrespectful, so she developed her aesthetic around it? "People think I'm obnoxious anyway, why not just lean into it, instead of having to constantly explain..."

[@diy_cat9817]

@@brendaleelydon hm interesting idea. If so, that's kinda clever. Still frustrating I'm sure.

[@Krystal-O]

I feel it, the amount of people I wink at is annoying af. And of course I don’t wear a sign saying ‘I tic’, so people think me rolling my eyes, winking and everything else is personal and directed at them. It truly is frustrating

[@ferninthehouse]

@@Krystal-O once my psychology teacher told a story how he was taking his final psychology exam, and you get judge by multiple people and one of them kept winking at him. So eventually he felt weird and winked back. Later found out the guy had Tourette’s and it was a tic.

[@diy_cat9817]

@@ferninthehouse oh man, poor guy! I don't have torettes, but I do seem to have some mild tics due to my narcolepsy. One of which is winking. Because it's not torettes it's fairly easy to suppress but it does seem when I'm overly tired or stressed, I have a lot more involuntary facial twitches.

[@T0x1cNeonz]

i've been fake claimed in the past for ticcing in public, but my difference is I have nervous tics (i know the difference well and don't claim to have Tourette's) and pointing them out tend to make them worse. this happened recently in a grocery store. I was in the store minding my own business getting stuff for dinner and she told me faking Tourette's isn't cool and when I told her I wasn't faking anything she started screaming at me IN PUBLIC Infront of everyone, which obviously made my nervous tics worse. she screamed me that i should be in a mental hospital for faking diseases which i wasn't and people just stood there and stared at me. i told her loud enough to where everyone could hear, i'm not faking tourette's syndrome, in fact I don't even have it, I have nervous ticks, which her pointing them out and screaming at me for them DOES NOT HELP THEM AND MAKES THEM WORSE. at that point i was like ACTUALLY CRYING because I have ptsd and people screaming at me triggers it and i was scared and having flash backs, she claimed to me nervous tics are not real (like wtf) and proceeded to try to grab me, not yelling, SCREAMING to the top of the lungs for a manager, this is FINALLY when someone stepped in and got her the hell away from me because i was starting to have a literal melt down and couldn't friggen breath. the manager ended up kicking her out instead of me then gave me half off of my grocery's because of "the inconvenience". still haven't gone back to that grocery store. edit: not going to lie dumping this out really helped me out because its been bothering me since it happened,

[@MuscleMommy67]

What a b****😭 she had NO right to make such a scene and to accuse when she doesn’t even know you! I’m so sorry that happened to you :( I hope you’re feeling better since that incident 💝

[@Name-d2t]

What the hell, this is awful :( I can't believe someone would do that in public

[@slothbear8378]

Oh my God that’s awful. I’m so sorry you had to go through that, and that it also triggered your PTSD. I hope you know that a lot of people aren’t like that woman, and will accept you. ❤️❤️❤️

[@T0x1cNeonz]

@@slothbear8378 tysm it means alot

[@cw2010]

That’s horrible, I hope you feel better now :(

[@aon02b]

It baffles me that some people will claim that Billie is faking when she's so obviously trying to hide her tics in fear of judgement. If she was faking it for fame why would she be embarrassed about her tics trying to hide them?

[@EvanBear]

People with tourettes should get free neck massages, change my mind.

[@Grim-Reaper183]

lol, i dont have the professional diagnosis of ts but i do have a daignosis for a tic disorder and on the weeks and weeks of the bad tic days i had was just my neck snapping all over the place and sometimes hear pops from them lol. i be begging my mum for her to rub my neck

[@Tolyuhh]

My boyfriend gets a limited amount of free massages (I think like 4 or 5 a year) due to a disability that affects his spine (not Tourettes). We live in Australia. I would hope that people with Tourettes can also get this but I don't know for sure.

[@squiggle.64]

lmao pls my neck is so painful from all the tics

[@samanthacoleman7229]

That sounds so nice. I have tourettes syndrome and a collagen disorder which means my joints are really loose. My tics through out my joints a lot and it makes it easier to get headaches from neck tics which are constantl, so free massages would be amazing.

[@squiggle.64]

@@samanthacoleman7229 i also have both of those😭 it really is a struggle

[@markharrisllb]

As a boomer I have a lot of respect for Billie Eilish and Finneas, they are incredibly talented siblings and wonderful wordsmiths. They, Billie especially, have been strong advocates for mental health issues in the young from the word go. She has always been very open about her own issues which at the age she first came into the public eye is very brave.

[@Jack2729o]

@lemonssssssss4 are you ironic? bc everyone knows that they are siblings ^^'

[@LaDaDaDeDaDaDa..]

@@Jack2729o guess I'm not a person 😃 I didn't know lol.

[@markharrisllb]

@lemonssssssss4 Eilish is Billie's second name not her surname, they've got a good Irish surname of O'Connell. They are the only present day artists I know anything about. I can't name a single Justin Bieber or Kanye West song.

[@markharrisllb]

@lemonssssssss4 As a rule I don’t, but I heard one of her songs and thought it was clever and then listened to a few more. I’m 62, Otis Redding was my biggest idol.

[@WindowsXPFrog]

why would people think she's faking it for "fame"? she's famous enough already lol

[@loonakara9941]

Attention ?

[@Cinnamonoroll66]

Exactly and everyone thinks that she is perfect but no she has body insecurities , ticing and not able to dance anymore because of her accident so I have been praying for her

[@trinajackson7178]

​@@loonakara9941uh no?

[@urmom-oi1of]

@@loonakara9941she was diagnosed when she was little y'all are weird asf

[@turdinatheprincess]

@@loonakara9941Attention ≠ Awareness

[@quinn5720]

Her tics are so similar to mine and it makes me feel more valid! Good on her for speaking out more in recent interviews

[@akarioaks3328]

The fact that Billie has Tourette’s makes me respect her more because she was able to overcome it and make a name for herself.

[@ashleypetrini4627]

I feel bad for her because she has those subtle tics to suppress her full on tics, and people are making videos pointing out the subtle tics. Like, she's doing her best to suppress them, and these people are sitting her like "oh, she ticced! Oh, another! I need to make sure everyone sees her tics!" At one point didn't you say suppressing tics is painful? If that's the case, then she's in pain in all the clips, as well. Thank you for informing people on how tics work, how suppressing works, and that everyone has different tics.

[@dash_inthedark6110]

she said in an interview that her Tourettes was really exhausting most of the time , probably also because she is constantly trying to suppress it in public.

[@lilyrolyat6726]

I’d really recommend checking out her interview with David Letterman. The whole episode is amazing but she actually talks about her Tourette’s a bit there, and how she doesn’t tic while performing shows which just sounds WILD to me. She also has a tic attack during her documentary The Worlds A Little Blurry, she uses essential oils to calm it but the attack looks super painful.

[@batteryjuice3041]

Where there is smoke there is fire, Billy is not a typical tourettes girl. Both her visual apperance and her behaviour shows she has Autism/Asperger. For me it was clear from the first second I saw her

[@zaraheart]

There was a guy on Americas got talent who has Tourettes. He was hilarious, joking about it but also giving info about it. He’s the only person I’ve seen with it(until now of course). TS is starting to come to light more today, which is amazing!

[@Rabbel5520]

Let me tell you, when i saw the thumbnail i was so scared that you were gonna fakeclaim her but i'm so glad you didn't! I know that you are better than that!

[@lvckofinterest]

RIGHT??? i got so scared and i thought i was gonna go off

[@beccaluvsdogs6506]

@@lvckofinterest fr lmao

[@rasberrygoose]

Same

[@ItsAria_YTshorts]

ik this is a tic but I love how she just flips us off

[@Libby_The_Wee_Lad]

It isn't her it is her tourettes she can't control it (just remember that it isn't her it is the tourettes some ppl say curse words and put up the middle finger just like Carley's "i got rice!....")

[@ItsAria_YTshorts]

@ yeah that’s why i said it’s a tic

[@Libby_The_Wee_Lad]

@@ItsAria_YTshorts yeah but i was just saying that she can't control it so technically it isn't her it is the tourettes and that some ppl have a tic where they hold up the middle finger and pound their chest and some ppl curse usually the f word

[@rainstorm-14]

as someone who gets this rock really often, i DON'T find this offensive

[@Becomingbutter]

I do not have tourettes my self, but I hate it when we (people without tourettes) go around saying people are faking it. It's not even our place to speak! idk if we believe that you guys can't stand up for yourselves or something, BUT most of the time we call out people who actually have tourettes!!!! edit: by most I mean around 97% of the time

[@NoiseDay]

It's true and I've heard it happens with racism too. Like white people complaining about other white people wearing kimono, but people in Japan saying it's nice that people are wearing their traditional dress, and it's sad that Japanese youth don't really wear it anymore except in rare cases. The key to preventing discrimination is to ask the people who would be taking the brunt of it. Ask how they feel and how they want to be treated and don't take everything on the internet at face value. Including this comment.

[@Glitchy666]

it's so validating and weirdly comforting seeing you and billie ticcing and being able to relate to some of your guys' tics. i like being able to say "hey, I do/relate to that!"

[@BunniBeshara]

I don’t have Tourette’s but I have autism and I have certain physical tics. Eye tics, neck tics, and hand tics are the ones I find myself doing. I can only assume it’s a sensory thing. It’s like a buildup of energy that needs to get out. They aren’t consistent enough to be diagnosed as anything other than tics. But when I watch someone having the same tics, it causes me to have to do it. My eyes go crazy when I watch Billie or Ethan Klein. **edit: stims and tics are not the same. Autistic people can have tics. My son is also autistic and he had a bad neck tic for months that his doctor was concerned about. It was in fact a tic, not a stim.

[@CheekieCharlie]

I am having the same thing! And I had vocal tics I didn't realise were tics when I was a preteen and now I'm not sure if I have autistic tics or tourettic OCD lol. Why are these things so hard to get diagnosed!

[@aquarium8650]

I'm also autistic, and those are stims, not tics :) they can be pretty similar to tics though!

[@BunniBeshara]

@@aquarium8650 I know what stims are and I know that these do not feel the same. I do stim as well.

[@seatherny_y]

I also have the same things. I have trouble differentiating between stims and tics, can someone help me out?

[@starauretta]

@@seatherny_y from what i know, stims are things you can control (although it usually happens unconsciously), while tics are things you can’t control, they just happen suddenly

[@saramessore9197]

Another informative and great video! So many people think “I think I would notice if you tic”(condescending tone), but the truth is they actually don’t notice a lot. There are so many different kinds of tics, a lot that go very much unnoticed, but that doesn’t make someone any less valid! So thank you!

[@TiccingTogether]

So very true!!!

[@Azzie1992]

"Stop fake-claiming her!" *Flips off the haters*

[@BratCharlie08]

That was golden

[@poetrysavant]

Thank you for sticking up for Billie eilish and spreading more awareness about Tourette’s. I have a. Lot to educate myself on 👍 may God bless you 🥰

[@razr1964]

Middle finger + “i got rice” is the best one i’ve seen so far

[@RDL1318]

Ive been experiencing persistent tic disorder since grade school, it felt really awesome to learn Billie also had a tic disorder, i hadnt seen somebody famous with one so I was like that just makes her that much more relatable to me. Huge fan

[@Viraie]

I heard just recently that Billie came out with her Tourettes. I was amazed and felt a bit sad that she felt that she had to hide and supress it, but at the same time I get why she did it. I hope her embracing and finally showing her tics publically will help against the stigma. I think what she did was kind of brilliant in a way, and now when looking back you can see that she has been ticcing all along, albeit subtly. And people claiming she does it to become famous, um, hello? She is already very famous in her own right for her music. Yeah, some people fake things, but it's usually something they claim to be or have from the get go. Like all the fake cancer people who want to sell their cook books, it is usually part of their brand from when they show up. As for the merch store: Yay! I am going to get and proudly wear the "I got rice" t-shirt in the near future. 😁

[@andykate7798]

Its so good to see you in better spirits today ♡ Also I love that you put your tics on merch!

[@vanessamonetee1237]

I am so buying the " I got rice " bag, it is priceless😂😂😂👏

[@scarletonyx8507]

You look particularly pretty in this vid. Your eyes really pop in this one! Another great and informative video 💕

[@cute_nymph222]

she actually as tourettes: people think that she only wants more attention but she told the world because people started to notice. billie is not plastic.

[@piegirl8263]

It must be rough to suppress tics that much!!! I suppress stims a lot which I know is not the same as suppressing tics but stim suppressing isn't fun for me and I bet suppressing tics is so much worse

[@slothbear8378]

I suppress tics so much it’s so uncomfortable and anxiety inducing definitely not fun

[@piegirl8263]

@@slothbear8378 o o f my sympathies

[@nataliescanlan1957]

Me too

[@alexandralaird5949]

Can we just take a moment and acknowledge how beautiful this woman is also her voice is so calming

[@KingaKucyk]

Thank You so much. Funny thing is, the fact that both me and Mrs. Eilish used to suffer from relationship abuse and depression, both me and her love this dark, demonic aesthetics, and now learning that B has tourettes too (my father has tics, I inherited it after him. Since my issues with speech started, the tics seem to fade away but yup they're still there and still annoying, but tbh I totally preffer my tics over the speech difficulties. Oh my don't even let me started on how many times I have cried because I couldn't force my own mouth to say what my damn name is or some other basic shit, immediatelly around the period it started and I was totally confused. Like none of my tics made my life that hard as not being able to say yes or no for no reason at all and yeah noone still knows what's going on with me and i HATE it.....) makes me really nearily believe that Matrix theory is real, as even our faces are similar (that's how I got to know Mrs Eilish even exists LOL My friends were like "without glasses Ure a spitting image of Billie Eilish" XD So I looked her up and here I am XD) Like seriously, is there a glitch in the system? LOL but for serious, thank U for explaining how real this girl really is. I guess some of her haters really had to see it from a legit source like You.

[@mscoot629]

Is it possible that you have some kind of stutter? I don’t know a lot about speech but some people who have a stutter struggle a lot to get their words out, especially their name and also other things they know the answer too.

[@KingaKucyk]

@@mscoot629 Idk, I've been to many specialists, of neurological, psychological, genetical, logopedic etc health and they all seem equally confused... One elderly doctor who works his whole carrear with stuttering ppl told me himself that he "have never seen anything like that", since my "condition" doesn't seem to be tied to any particular situation or strong emotions and seems to fluctuate... through months... weeks... then days.... now.... now it's a "miracle" if this thing won't dissapear for an hour.... I can be perfectly fluent one second and then be unable to do any "human sounding" vocalisation in literally next second... It's pissing me off as hell... And it started randomly too... now everyone's confused and I absolutely hate it....

[@miglek9613]

@@KingaKucyk have you considered that you might actually be autistic? Professionals very rarely notice signs of autism in girls (if they even believe girls can be autistic as it wasn't known autistic girls were a thing for a really long time) thanks to pretty much all studies on autism being done on white boys only and situational mutism is a very common symptom

[@KingaKucyk]

@@miglek9613 Idk... Noone have ever suggested it...

[@noahroad6577]

I had this when I was young, probably between 11-18 or maybe even 20. And they would come back occasionally since. I was so insecure and frankly felt ashamed, like I was bad or something. But for some reason, and I don’t know why, they just gradually tapered off. They were very strong when I was young. I would exhaust myself in them. I had a twitch and a squeak that I would do. I would twitch my nose and eye, and then do this squeak that I would try to suppress. I would twitch at the organs inside of my rib cage. And I find myself occasionally doing this still, only (thankfully) to a lesser degree. But like you said, if I concentrate on the topic, especially if I’m watching someone with Tourette’s, I feel a tick or a twitch building inside and I have to resist. It feels like a miracle that I almost don’t have them anymore. But from time to time I’m reminded and I sense how easy they could come back again. Thank you for your work on this video. And I thank anyone who took the time to read my comment.

[@TiccingTogether]

Thank you for sharing your story! I appreciate it. And thanks for watching ❤️❤️

[@stacyg585]

It is remarkable that Billie has been able to achieve everything she has while also dealing with Tourettes. I wonder if being creative and staying busy has actually helped her suppress it? Or maybe it makes it harder.

[@Haxlover]

Omg, i have tourette and just today i found you im so happy!! Thank you for making this type of content ❤

[@EverydayLinguistics]

Thanks for making this video. You talked about a lot of subtle details about TS that are understood by people who have it, but may not be documented otherwise. Glad you are doing this, because I sure don't want to!

[@Jessneko.craftique]

The I got Rice bag would be the perfect gift for my Japanese rice obsessed boyfriend. He’s got to have rice with nearly every meal. While I’m over here missing my potatoes. 😂😅

[@betterwiththeirish]

My son grew his bangs so that his neck jerks looked like he was trying to get his hair out of his face

[@Ihatememyselfandixp]

Thats kinda smart

[@Captain_Nightwing]

I don't have Tourette's but my eyes have what I call "sympathy pain" for example, if your eyes are really ticing my eyes will water and feel bad for you. Why this happens I have no clue. Once someone I knew had really red eyes, and I could not even look at him because my eyes watered so bad. I also have terribly restless legs, and there are times I just have to move them or they just twitch.

[@nataliescanlan1957]

These might be related to anxiety or some other condition. I have mental health issues and have tics like leg bouncing, hand shaking, dissociating and blankly staring without blinking or twitch blinking over and over, head hitting (occasional), pinching, scratching etc.

[@flutenanyidk1806]

I really apreciate your insight. I just noticed something that made me smile and a little amused. Some of your tics sound and look like you've got chills running down your spine. It's also really interesting to hear someone tic in something closer to their normal voice- everyone that I know that has vocal tics tend to speak higher when they tic.

[@valinchiii]

Thank you so much for this video! Billie’s tics seem to be very similar to mine in that they are quite subtle. It makes me feel better because sometimes I feel like I’m not valid in my Tourettes despite me being diagnosed at the age of 5. I don’t have any if the “grandiouse” ones as you out it in another video. While as a child my Tourette’s was pretty bad, once I reached my late teens they became so much more minor to the point I no longer needed medication. Nowadays mine are mainly muscle tensing, such as my neck, stomach, shoulders and thighs. They come and go, but the two big ones I’ve had nonstop since childhood are one that looks like I’m eye rolling (like Billie showed) and nose scrunching. I learned to “mask” them since, while people tell me nowadays that they don’t even notice my tics, multiple times when I was younger people would make fun of my eye tic especially. A big one I do is in public when I have the neck tensing tic, I act as if I’m simply stretching my neck. Sorry this was so long! I just feel like people thing Tourettes only presents as big noticeable tics despite it being more of a spectrum as you said :)

[@shannonulrich2278]

My son has Tourette’s and was never truly formally diagnosed. He is on the lower end of the spectrum. His echolalia is still pronounced when he gets stressed, and he still does have outbursts, but a lot of the hard swallowing and certain other hard tics have lessened over time. He will have outbursts and say random words(absolutely no filter). It’s very hard to get people who don’t know to understand. Thank you for giving true and informed explanations so those who don’t k ow can understand. I’m so glad I found your channel.

[@morphman86]

I don't have tourettes, but I have motor tics. They are much less severe now than when I was in my teens, though they get quite severe when I'm stressed. I tried suppressing them when I was in class, but people got freaked out, as I would shake intensely and my neck would tense up to the extreme. So I stopped trying, just letting it all out. Because punching myself at random and twisting my head to the point the neck cracks was apparently a lot less scary for my class mates.

[@orcashadow8989]

Not very related to the video but the I got rice merchandise made me laugh. I'm glad you can embrace those tics. They brought a smile to my face.

[@ellerystar]

My question is why would she make it up for fame if she's already famous? The logic the ppl fake claiming her use is non-existent

[@malorilovetro]

im sorry but billie is definitely NOT faking it. i swear the moment the woman gets a boost in her career people like this destroy it for her. just say congratulations even if u dont mean it and stop talking down on women.

[@Artsycharlie]

I started getting the “beginning symptoms” like rapid blinking, eyebrow darting etc. it lasted for about two years but finally went away before anything would progress. I have SPD and tics are (sometimes) a symptom of it but they usually only happen temporarily and last for a few years, come back for a few and just keep going back and forth that way. And even those small things made me insecure, I can’t imagine being on stage SINGING and having to suppress my tics

[@MissSirenita]

I have so much respects for Billie. I don’t understand how she could be faking it if most people never even knew she had it because she suppress it so much. If it is based on an impulse jerk reaction, then suppressing it would be extremely hard. I know all about how hard it is to fight against impulses, but I can only imagine what it’s like to have Tourette’s. People already poke fun of those who are nd. To be in the public world makes masking probably extremely hard.

[@h3llnite]

The amount of energy that needs to be used to suppress the tics for anyone with Tourette’s would be huge. How exhausting for you all ♥️

[@heyheymenow4184]

Now, to seriousness. I didn’t know that Billie has tics, so when I watched this video, I was glad to have learned all about tics. Ur channel is amazing and I love that no matter how “weird” your tics are, u continue ur day and videos and that shows how true of not only a person with tics, but a person in general. (is this correct for me to say tics in this case? I hope so, I don’t want to sound rude and mean). Thank u for being such an honest, reliable person, and I will definitely watch your future videos! Byee! ❤❤❤

[@karly_ongrowth]

I genuinely don't really notice Billie's tics but maybe that's because i'm so focused on what she's saying. Yet I do recall her mentioning she has Tourette's in just 1 or 2 interviews. It doesn't change how much I like her and I most certainly never thought to doubt her about it. ♡ I actually have a lot of jaw problems, swallowing issues and what I think are neck tics. Although I havent been told I have tourette's. I'm not self diagnosising but I super appreciate the education. I just might mention it to a medical professional because my neck is really bothering me. Other people have been noticing my attacks too.

[@alx444x]

Can we just talk about how the eye darting tics make your eyes hurt after a while if it's happening a bunch 😭. But I'd like to say billie has been a huge inspiration for me as someone with tourettes

[@lellow7087]

I have quite mild tics, so it’s nice to see Billie as someone so similar to me in the media!

[@Finn_Smith44]

The chess merch is perfect for me. I am such a big chess fan and a BIG fan of your channel! it is perfecttttt

[@qtmisskris8743]

Love the vid! I always learn so much from you madame. Thank you for sharing this information. I hate that anyone feels they have to hide/suppress…but I doubt Billy would’ve gotten so big had she been totally upfront about it - OR she would’ve gotten big for all the wrong reasons and not based on her talent. So I can see why she hid it for so long.

[@nlcube-er2143]

It's so funny. Every time you talk about people with tics doing the echo thing, Im already stuck in the tic loop. And while you explain it you get in it as well😂

[@bellatrix2922]

Your makeup is so pretty and your glasses look amazing on you! ❤️

[@LeGaySharpie]

About the tic loop, that happens with me and two of my friends, as we are all autistic and have tourrette's, so our stimming triggers each others tics, and tics trigger tics, to the point we have to walk away from each other 😥

[@thejarbearadventures2971]

I've had tourettes since I was 6 years old, so I totally get it! Also, I realllyyy want rice now 😅

[@Sunsh1n3_luvs_y0u]

I'm so sorry for this but the "I got rice" vocal tics were my fav parts of the video 😭 #wegotrice

[@LizzyRox420]

I never knew she had Tourette's. That's interesting to know. My uncle has it, but his tics are mild. He has the eye twitches and neck jerks. I've never noticed any other tics from him other than those tho. It was nice coming across your channel, it's very nice to learn about the diff levels of it and that someone out there who isn't faking it is actually informing people to spread the awareness of it. Everyone should be true to themselves and true to others. I hate it how people try to act like they have any type of disorder when they don't. I have bipolar, borderline personality disorder, anxiety and depression. It affected me for many years, but in the past 4-5yrs i have worked really hard at improving my mentality and learning to talk myself down before i get to that high point, so when people try to fake having emotional disorders when they don't, it really bothers me because they don't truly know what it's like to suffer from them. Thank you for being an inspiration and staying true to who you are

[@tsukishima-i-guess]

i think she said her tics were going crazy in her music video, 'when the party's over', when the black tears are streaming down her face.

[@Rya-m7c]

Yeah I saw a video BTS of the video and when they were putting the tubes on her face, she was ticcing like crazy

[@abramizaackaplan6723]

It’s overwhelmingly apparent from the footage that she’s not only working really hard to suppress when she’s in interviews, but that she’s also developed a specific type of body language and public persona to compensate and make her tics blend better. It’s actually really impressive. And I feel for her. Being a public figure is enough of a nightmare without the added stress of ts.

[@heyheymenow4184]

Ur vocal tics are very nice slogans for ur merch. Rice is my fav food.

[@silverdweller2809]

I'm glad you talk about this. I suppress around people and only minor tics come out. I have worse tics at home.

[@sashabarnett8402]

Love your videos they are so informational and make me feel more at peace with my small tics and with my sons tics❤️

[@madinotfound]

Can we talk about how on-point her makeup is???? She did really good!!! 😊

[@Just_Avaaa]

I don’t have Tourette’s. However, when I was younger (around 3-8 years old), I had tics that would come and go, and were almost like a habit, such as making an involuntary grunting/ throat clearing noise, which was one of the earlier ones, then a sort of clicking pattern with my mouth with my throat and teeth, and then the last two I remember were basically excessive blinking, and clicking my right ankle joint, sometimes causing me to trip when walking. None of these happened together, and were all involuntary, and now, at 14, I haven’t had any in years. Does anyone know why this happened?

[@sheapila]

Aloha, I just wanted to send my love to you, and my thanks for sharing this video and explaining to everyone that Billie is NOT making any of this up for fame or for anything else for that matter...and I can't imagine having this condition and then people saying your faking it...that would piss me off so much! But you deal with it with grace, and I love that...you've taught me so much, mahalo and God bless you...I'll be subscribing for sure. Sending you ALL my love and aloha to you from the big island of Hawaii 🤙🏼🙏🏼🌴🌈

[@mr_silver_eyes]

Do you ever sometimes cover up the rice tux by replacing the word “rice” with something else? By the way, I like that you pointed out how “I’ve got rice” is specific to you and no one else. It just goes to show that yes, there are bound to be extreme and subtle examples given how much of the population has Tourette’s. The same goes for any disability, both internal/neurological and physical.

[@clearisadavis6295]

I had to take a break when watching this because of my tics, also thank you for talking about other peoples tics can trigger ours because I’ve noticed this happens with me but didn’t know this was normal with Tourette’s or just me so thank you

[@anamariazambrano2404]

I love her channel and I love her. I’m learning so much and I appreciate you ❤️ Thank you for all that you do. Keep it going!!!

[@katsuyafeather1309]

My tics are most of the time very subtle like Billie's. The neck and face jerking and the facial twitching, shoulder shrugging is a big one. When I'm having a really bad tic day, I hit myself in the chest, make hand jesters, or say whole phrases. Like one time I said "please don't hit me!" Very loud to my friend in the middle of a normal conversation in a quite coffee shop. Those are the more noticeable, but most of the time people just assume I had a "shiver" or something. Edit:dumb spelling cause I got square brain and can't type lol

[@gertieisonline]

its crazy how people are claiming shes faking it , she has come out and said she has it becuase people were noticing it and then asking her about it

[@doesnotFempute]

I have no opinion on Billie, either way. But fakers usually hope people notice the things they're faking... it's kind of the purpose. So this argument doesn't make sense.

[@judeisnotcool]

On the way you said TS has a wide variety of presentations, my tourettes is basically gone for weeks at a time and then its so severe I can’t go out in public because of how loud and obvious it is. I’ve been to many doctors who’ve all come to the same conclusion and I’m definitely not faking, but i still have imposter syndrome. Never fakeclaim, it hurts way more than it could ever help.

[@AmleiaCra]

As a person with a tic its hard to do it in public because when it happens at school if it happens I usually get asked about it or a weird look and it has lowered my self esteem my heart goes out to everyone with a tic :)

[@DeSch0ft]

Nah, just do it. I have it too and you shouldn't give a fuck what people think about it. When they ask questions just say ''tics''. I used to suppress my tics but whenever I got home, my tics has gotten worse and it really sucked.

[@AmleiaCra]

thank you this motivated me@@DeSch0ft

[@cherylbritten6950]

People also forget that there are medications that help tics. My son is on clonidine which has decreased his by almost entirely.

[@katcrooks7308]

I’ve had tics since I was little, but was never diagnosed with Tourette’s. I was told it was because of my Autism. My meds also suppress them. But when I started watching Billie’s tics I started replicating them and not on purpose but then I started gaslighting myself into believing that I was faking it 😭 i has no idea that people with tics tend to replicate other people’s tics until recently. I now do the head jerking things whenever I don’t take my meds (I forget to take them sometimes). I used to snort or gulp but I would suppress it as much as I could because people (usually family members) would tell me it was annoying 🙄 it’s always been facial tics for me, but now it’s mainly the head jerks and scrunching my nose. Sometimes my eyes will twitch really quickly but it usually only happens one or twice within seconds and then it doesn’t happen for a while. I’m glad Billie came out about it to clear the air and spread a little awareness 💕 she is such an inspiration.

[@charliecat2948]

Autism does directly cause tics. Tics can be as a result of a disorder that is more common with autistic people but not as a result of autism it’s self.

[@ThimbleFox350]

Tics can be associated with things other than tourette's like anxiety and PTSD though, tourette's is just a tic-disorder but many people experience tics

[@BlondeHunterAvakin]

Billie's tics and there's one viral video of tics few years ago, helps me to atleast know the name of things that somewhat look like what I've been experiencing since I was little kid. I'm in my mid 20s now. I didn't get it properly diagnosed as it getting better as I get older. I'm now able to try "hiding" it, though hiding it causing me to hurt my own neck T_T So now I rarely hide it. My tics used to be: head will turn to left, while my lower jaw turn right, and my both eyes look upper right. Though it happened in a quick few seconds, it hurts sometimes. Now, it just my head turning. I hope more awareness about this to be spread, especially some people thought tic is only the cursing tics. Thank you for the great content.

[@Catsandcamera]

I'd only seen one clip of Billy having a tic attack before this, surprised it wasn't included in here actually because it was just randomly in my recommended one time. I just searched it and it has over 2 mil views!

[@erintraicene7422]

So similar to my child’s eye tics . She used to be so worried teachers thought she was miss attitude in the back of class.

[@miclovesart]

I have an eye roll tic and I’m constantly explaining myself to people so they don’t think I’m being rude

[@danetteduprey-hunter2593]

I totally agree with you! It's sad people are fake claiming her. She only told people about her diagnosis because PEOPLE WERE NOTICING THEM! So, yeah. She's got tics. Now.... I have no right to take claim or say I think she does. I do not have any tic disorders. However, I've learned a lot from your channel.

[@fashie4968]

13:07 - "telling me.. I GOT RICE~" lol xD

[@mybrokenmindddd]

I've actually met Billie and her tourettes are VALID I've even met her mom and she says she has TS 💕💕💕💕💕

[@ben0789]

What is billie like? I'm jealous of you

[@RachelParker-1977]

I wish I had known I had it in my youth. I didn't realize it until I was in my 20's. Thank God I understand now and with his grace, I can manage it better.

[@gabyserpa2950]

I do get neck jerks, i don’t have Tourette’s, I think, but neck jerks or whistling is what happens often to me so this is really cool information to know

[@PGCtheDemon]

I’m not diagnosed but my tics get triggered/worsened by watching you but idm since I enjoy you or content and make me feel a lot better

[@WordsInVain]

Oh my god... You made actual merch of your vocal tics. That's too brilliant. 😂

[@chezsrandombs]

I'm not sure if this is what you meant or not, but I think her eyes going wide isnt a tic, i think its her reaction to ticking, like, shes getting annoyed by them. I pull a similar face when i start to get annoyed by stuff. I have tics, though I dont get annoyed by them too much unless they're inappropriate or when I'm playing online games (if people hear certain tics, they often replicate it, which triggers it more. It's not always intended, some people just think I'm singing or playing around but some people will very much realise what's happening and do it on purpose)

[@catra861]

I have a mild form of Tourettes, and it is a little hard for me to watch other people who have it, because if i watch movies or tv shows or even anime ill pick up a phrase and repeat it. And alot of times it's a funny phrase or sentence. My mother has it too. I love your content❤

[@liamodonovan6610]

You are amazing carly though i saw a video about billie ellish having tourettes not bery common for a singer to have tourettes interesting video love you so much carly always love your intelligent videos

[@secretformulathief910]

Just as a general rule don't fake claim unless you have proof, I'm pretty sure we are all suspicious of everyone who claims to have it (which isn't bad) but just don't go around calling someone names, this comment is just for anyone who needs to hear it, great video btw!

[@Mirkat2011]

I'm curious what it feels like to suppress a tic?.... I might have a nerve contion (dr still figuring out what I have) and my neck and arm as I say twitch randomly, more when I'm stressed but when I'm at work or out for a day I do my best to not have a random head jerk and everytime it feels like someone poured water down the back of my neck or my arm depending on what I felt was coming...

[@slothbear8378]

For me it’s like a buildup of tension along with emotional and physical stress. It also becomes really difficult to focus on other things. I hope that made sense :)

[@HeartsScales]

This was very interesting to listen to and learn from you, thank you ^_^ I also want to say I love your glasses - I can't pull that shape off but if I could I would totally wear the "Harry Potter" style glasses, haha. Thanks love - keep rockin!