Liane Holliday Willey - Pretending to be Normal

Ticking:An involuntary set of small or large muscle movements or vocal utterances that result in a habitual and uncontrollable action such as blinking, teeth clicking, nose scrunching, coughing, grunting, etc. Ticking often causes anxiety, embarrassment and feelings of shame in the individual affected. Should the individual try too hard to control the action, they will likely face nervous tension and an inability to concentrate on other matters.

Visual Sensitivity:A visual processing disorder that weakens an individual’s ability to understand, interpret and process information gathered through the eyes. This can result in poor reading and writing skills, an inability to judge objects in space in relation to one another properly and disorientation in following directions and finding one’s way.

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