guy in vr talks about getting bullied

i talk to brabbit about his experience growing up with tourette syndrome
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[@MagicMan23MagicMan23]

Special thanks to Syrmor for letting me talk about this, a chance to talk about it comes very rarely for me. This topic is kinda hard to talk about because you have so many things to say but you don’t know how to. And this definitely helped me let it all out. Thanks for all the love and support from everyone and I wish you well!

[@Shaka1660]

Hey just reaching out if you want someone to talk to. I was diagnosed with tourettes at 4 and been living with it moderately my whole life. You're really brave for talking about it, as most people aren't able to understand so I usually avoid the topic. The part about tics being different for everybody and not just random swearing is so important for more people to know. Sorry you were bullied too and I hope you're living a much better life now

[@bare_bear_hands]

Question: how come humming, biting nails and whatnot are considered Tourettes? All of that is... Normal. Granted, not everyone will let others see them doing those things, but there's really no "disastrous impact on wellbeing" to think those deserve a diagnosis. Well, maybe having your fingers bleeding, that isn't too right. But still. Also, not having friends? That I feel 100%. My parents kept moving houses nonstop, I may have ONE friend and that's it. Lots of cousins though, the amount of bullying I got from them was legendary.

[@christiancapitalist501]

Dude you're a tough SOB. Keep your head up brother! God loves you and there are good people out there! You seem highly intelligent, make a bunch of money and demand the respect you deserve from those who can't see your inherent value!

[@collinputnam3715]

My best friend growing up has Tourette’s, luckily I was one of the ones where it didn’t matter, we would actually both end up laughing about it in the end, which I hope helped him. Thanks for sharing your story to give me another insight to my friend

[@Brandon_Brando]

Btw love how your first model looks shame it was glitching out

[@phoenixsidepeen5468]

It’s so crazy by learning how to manage his tics, he essentially taught himself how to meditate. Happy he’s getting his confidence back

[@bans5]

People naturally are very adaptable. That's how we've gotten so far as humans.

[@teammonster2880]

these stories are fr the best to always listen to when eating food

[@pottedcatnip]

very very true

[@marthlink5015]

It's something about these that's both therapeutic but still kinda sad hearing people had such hard times. But when they talk about things getting better, and them leaving their message behind it's really positive and uplifting part. Made me wish i met more and more interesting people in VR.

[@RabY0]

He upped his critical thinking level and gained awareness through his hardships. Respect.

[@h3ctorwastaken917]

So glad he learned how to control his ticks wish him well in life ❤

[@Mrmomm]

I was diagnosed with this while serving active duty in the US Army, its been 15 years since I was diagnosed and they can still be at 33 embarsing and a pain the fucking ass.

[@stubbstcg9682]

Glad I caught one this early. This dude I can say I can relate. For me its high function autism that I didn't have diagnosed until I finally went to an actual psych evaluation after I got out of college due to my mother's denial. I have similar symptons, but with memories that hit me like a freight train of me either embarrasing myself, or things that I think I did wrong that make me go into vocal spasms. My tendencies got me into a lot of fights because people saw me as the weird dude that might shoot up the school one day, or because of my last name. Worst grade for me was 8th grade, since that was when the other kids, including some who I considered my best friends since 1st grade, noticed that side of me and turned tribal, and dealing with family issues at the time. Got into my fair share of fights because of that, along with "fight to survive" being a more literal term where I come from.

[@jamesgerling5279]

Gotta admit, I’m prolly on the spectrum, undiagnosed for 30+ years, since I always had a thing about making eye contact, absolutely *not* understanding social cues, getting super overwhelmed by touches and loud sounds, and making repetitive gestures or sounds to calm down. Part of it was how my family liked to just act like problems weren’t there. Not even sure I was told when I was younger, I just remember talking with the guidance counselor an awful lot in elementary school cause I wasn’t socializing how I was supposed to. Only really clicked when I met my wife, and she was diagnosed when she was like 3-4. Her mom was told she’d be in an institution for the rest of her life by a doctor, just being diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder (“light autism”, higher functioning than asperger’s). Which is absolute bullshit, cause she was able to go to college, hold down a job, get a house, when she was told from the get-go that she’d only ever be a barely verbal vegetable in a group home somewhere. Oh, and the relentless teasing through public school. I don’t know what was worse though. Feeling like a stranger your whole life, like something’s wrong or there’s a joke that nobody is telling you; or knowing exactly what everyone is saying you’re weird for, and fighting to overcome stigmas and stereotypes your whole life.

[@dominiczibuda5232]

Whenever you were in a fight, did you enjoy it? I fight a lot and I always seem to find myself enjoying it, win or lose. I think I enjoy it more than anything else really, gaming doesn't come close, and sports can sort of mimic it if they are rough ones, but otherwise, nothing compares at all. I don't think intercourse even should be on the list, since that is more of a crude way to release my more carnal desires.

[@fishpie00]

Thank you for doing this, Syrmor. There's a lot of people with their own stories out there and they're all very touching. They're so personal and I'm grateful that there is a space where these individuals can just talk about their experiences.

[@StruggleGun]

Sweet Anita has the same thing happen where people are oddly eager to say she's faking it. Which is weird, cause most disorders people are sympathetic towards, but tourettes is like the exact opposite for no reason.

[@cuddIepup]

i guess because its so sudden and surprising, it's "weirder" to people and less believable. it's cruel though. i have very little tics but i'm still afraid for them to occur even around my own family. they are very accepting though.

[@EmperorGooseEdits]

its great to sit and listen to these things and relax

[@xFF7xGIRLx]

How can you sit and relax listening to a guy talk about how bad he had been bullied? I found it pretty sad.

[@EmperorGooseEdits]

@@xFF7xGIRLx my bad not what i want that to mean i wanted to sit that relax to think about things, to truly know that there are people who need help and the is hope that you can do something to save them and how you should always help people who need it

[@patrickquillen5359]

God I feel for him so bad, I got called the noise kid because of my Tourettes or was told to shut up constantly because of the noises I made.

[@torib796]

When I was in 5th grade, one of the kids in my class had tourettes. His tics were mostly these little yelp sounding noises. Nobody cared as far as I knew. Nobody made it a big deal. But a substitute teacher thought he was making fun of her and kept calling him a goat. That didn't go well with the class. I remember we were all so mad and told all the adults we could that we didn't want her to come back

[@darthorion2002]

Thats good. Great job on keeping her accountable.

[@chasef1077]

Thank you for letting him tell his story 💙

[@heli0ns]

We should be easier on one another in general. I don't know how or when we became so cruel to one another. This guy seems like a really good lad.

[@FlantisFroggu]

that's how children be, they are dumb and terrible and parents don't teach them to do better

[@teammonster2880]

I love your videos, they akways make my day :)

[@renesit0]

its like me 6:10 growing up with bad anxiety since i was 12 i learned how to live with it and i still hyperventilate im turning 31 in like 2 months and i still get tired of dealing with depression and anxiety but you keep pushing through.

[@GARBO96]

One thing that stood out for me even when it was done like directly in front of teachers they would never do anything ever friends help before teachers ever settle a word once again I've never had a teacher help in any situation they've literally only isolated me from the class

[@brandanvaquerano5809]

Yo syrmor, you've been on your Sam O nella shit, im glad you're still posting on YT

[@FlantisFroggu]

This story felt more about tourettes than bullying

[@joeyhandles]

His tail has glitter effects. Thought dude was pissing the whole time

[@psychicpebbles7910]

I have a friend who also has had tourettes basically his entire life. He would sometimes twitch his face and make a hmm sound, especially when he was trying to focus on work. Thankfully he never really got bullied for it, people were pretty understanding. He's actually gotten a lot better at controlling his tics, they are basically unnoticeable now. It just got better as he got older.

[@Magavynhigara]

I was diagnosed fairly early in life but it wasnt very well understood so they just threw medication at it and it turned me into a zombie and made me feel horrible. Stress would set it off and since mine was in my legs it made some general activities more difficult. Being able to now know what sets it off and being able to relatively control it helps bit takes a bit of focus.

[@VaunaKiller]

I'm glad to hear that your condition got better. You sound like a cool person to talk to - very mindful of yourself and others. I would love to have a chat with you :) PS> Thanks for another gr8 vid, Syrmor )

[@vaporwave2345]

Humanity sucks. Prove me wrong.

[@MaxZRider]

More like humanity goes hard

[@cxrved9298]

Nah I think you just gotta play it right 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@JustSomeGuyWithAMug]

Humanity sucks because your brain says so, the only thing that sucks is the human brain, bad and wrong doesn't really exist, just things that makes us feels satisfied and things that makes us feel in danger, plus we have this empathy thing that made most humans survive and reproduce more, but it only works with X things, so is it bad that our empathy is not the best empathy that we could ever had? Is just like the guy in the video said We are born like this and most people can't realize, and they can only try to train it at it's best after they realized My point is that i can't say you're correct with my logic because if my logic is correct that means it can't be correct making it so i can't prove you wrong because wrong doesn't exist, making you correct, thus entering a paradox where my logic gets validated and nullified by itself, and i love that so i'll leave it there Another point that i had is: why we suck but not other species? Because of this empathy of good and bad, we feel bad when someone feels bad and viceversa, but we survived for a long time just like this, so the next logical conclusion is that if we make everyone survive thanks to our empathy we will eventually: run out of resources and we'll all die, or, kill the other humans because of our empathy with a certain part of the population If we have a big enough empathy we won't kill anybody but we leave us defenseless, if the other person doesn't have enough empathy they'll kill us or hurt us, someone with empathy for us but not the other can have a urge of revenge, so if most persons have selective empathy we'll kill ourselves as a species, thus not fulfilling the purpose of surviving that made all living things be alive, is that wrong? we have 'reason' on our side, we know living beings don't care about their species continuity, they just care about surviving and reproducing, that's how their atoms are shaped, to clone copies of themselves, but we are different, we have reason that lets us kill our species just because, empathy being the only thing stopping us, the only thing besides ourselves and our wish to survive, instict they call it most of the time Tl;dr: no one can prove you wrong, not even yourself Or can you? *Vsauce music.mp3* Humans are made in a way that they think they're right just so they can survive and the species can reproduce more and more just like a virus, right and wrong are just a side effect of being human.

[@khanhngo6002]

the proof that there are still good people is literally right in front of you - this channel - don't you think?

[@crazyBloodmonkey]

It's crazy while he was talking about being bullied i was "yeah i remember being bullied about having tourettes." And then he said he had tourettes. Yeah it was annoying when i was younger and the last time it was made fun of was in 8th grade. it's weird everyone said highschool was going to suck and yet i had no problems all though highschool and i wasn't hiding it well at all. til this day most of friends don't even know i have it. I kind of luck a little bit because i barely have it and my trigger is something i could understand easily. It happens when I'm excited. So i just don't really get excited about things very often. i think over time i just learned to get really happy about cool stuff instead of getting excited. Though of course sometimes it can't be helped. Like dang every zelda and smash trailer it's over basically looking like im having a mild seizure 😂

[@Shaka1660]

Hate it when the flinching starts and it's causing me to miss the trailer lol, or miss the climax in a movie. Takes you out of the moment

[@MisterNyte]

This is off topic of the video itself, but damn Syrmor, your voice has gotten hella deep!

[@PepperstoneGB]

*really like the FLUENT fast smooth narration.*

[@jak5221]

This makes me upset, when I was in elementary school there was a girl a year or two older than me who had Tourette’s and everyone treated her like an outcast, I don’t have the best memory but we were friends, she would do tap dancing and would not get her “tics” when doing this. I haven’t seen her in a very long time and I hope she’s doing well, but it just sparked that memory for me and just how fucked up kids can be, even me I’m not perfect.

[@woofnuggiez]

I think mines either tics, autism, or ocd, or a combination of them. My school was stupid i guess but my tics were a bit.. weird, I'd do this thing where i smelled my hand constantly? And squinting my eyes really hard for some reason, and jumping over cracks, and would freak out in my head more than others, if i stepped on a crack. Like overthinking every little thing over and over again until i drive myself mad and get mentally exhausted and depressingly just disassociate completely and go to sleep because i can't handle being awake with myself. That's still a current thing.. but way worse. :( After i kept hearing about it from family and random people i stopped, and thought hey it was just a strange phase, maybe from my adhd, no, it just moved to something different, eye twitching, where i move my eyes up a lot, or have to do something a certain amount of times, like twisting a door knob or washing hands, or walking over the same spots over and over again until it feels "right" counting the times i do something a certain amount, silently of course ..Yet no one noticed, not even myself for a very long time just thinking something was off. Anyone know what this is? I didn't put everything down obviously, but its driving me insane and makes me feel really sad and bad..

[@JeeBayYT]

Dunno why i just seemed to picture his brain punching his eyeball back to normal like "Uh Uh, no nope not gonna do that aight ?" lmao

[@toster41]

Hey Syrmor ! I haven't watched your content in a while, glad to see you doing well. I'm trying to get into VRchat as you recommended me a couple of years ago, but my first experiences weren't great. Could you recommend me some worlds please ? Thank you.

[@kinya7143]

He knows de wae

[@ya_boielijah6983]

I wish i had a syrmor to talk to Everyone in my life wont let me ramble they always have to put their two cents in

[@roadtriiip]

why is no one upset about the bullying and harassment he faced

[@xFF7xGIRLx]

I'd gladly be his friend. I literally have zero. No one will ever give me the time of day.

[@josue580]

Damn dude, I am jealous that you had a parent that actually took you to a psychiatrist. My parents literally ignored every warning. Not to compare dude but I was bullied until I was in 10th grade, even after all the therapy it still affects me. Shit was hard.

[@nickrondinelli1402]

Im confused tho, he very clearly said he was able to control his tics as he got older yet he also says that he cant control them? I understand that he cant eliminate them outright, but it sounds like he could very much learn to manage and control them

[@kolper6799]

Avatar gliches while dude talks about tourette is I guess ultimate "fuck you in particular" from god.

[@509734]

Background music is If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot

[@orlandocampbell6105]

❤❤❤

[@skaterdude14b]

What is the name of the ghost meme character

[@sokuoonomana]

Me and him have so much in common

[@MSPilotCrexote]

Sorry man. I had to deal with my bullies head on. Was such a small kid. Regardless, sorry dude.

[@StephenSternforPresident]

I'm still here 😭

[@lGNITED]

❤

[@EmilevanSchalkwyk]

yo man id love to talk sometime ive got a situation that ive gotten over but id love to talk

[@outerheaven1571]

Is... is that Gordon Lightfoot in the background?

[@HenryCasillas]

🕯️

[@barttheraven]

He sounds very lucky compared to what I went through in school.

[@ohchip]

its not a contest. just because you might've dealt with worse doesnt mean you get to invalidate others experiences :/

[@barttheraven]

@@ohchip I'm not invalidating anything

[@gelatinous6915]

Does this guy just find random people to talk to in vrchat lobbies?

[@moonlightfitz]

😭

[@thatboikatz]

yoooo first

[@OddBallCherokee]

The pills were most likely sugar pills or chill pills

[@anthonycarter1528]

I think you're awesome for sharing, user-wb4gk8ju3e. I think your story's more common than most know. It's like they say, ' Hurt people hurt People.' But I think it goes deeper than that. Others are afraid of becoming that hurt person. They'd rather sacrifice an innocent than suffer themselves. I think it also means that you have something special to offer. People from my religious persuasion call it a "calling". I also call it "genius". Something that only you can do in this world. I pray that you achieve that genius, friend. What waits at the end is well worth the effort. :)