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Billie Eilish at the Met Gala in New York
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Singer Billie Eilish opened up about Tourette's Syndrome on David Letterman's Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.
Eilish opened up about how it's affecting her life.
"If you film me long enough, you'll see a lot of tics," she said.
She found out she had the disorder when she was eleven.
People who didn't know she had Tourette's syndrome wouldn't recognize her tics and would be insensitive to them.
“They usually laugh because they think I'm trying to be funny.
And I always feel pretty offended by it.«
Tourette's syndrome is a "neuropsychiatric disease that manifests itself in tics," as the Tourette Society Germany puts it.
According to this, tics are understood as “spontaneous movements, sounds or verbal expressions that come about without the will of the person concerned and are not earmarked for a specific purpose.
This is comparable to a sneeze or a hiccup.
The movements often run repeatedly in the same way, but are not rhythmic.
They can appear singly or in series«.
Other artists also suffer from Tourette, according to Eilish
Since Eilish has been public, she has found that the disease is much more widespread than she first thought.
Some artists contacted her and said they would also suffer from it.
However, Eilish did not want to reveal who it was.
"People don't want to come out."
Eilish said some of her tics will subside over time, but there are also subtle tics that remain part of her daily life.
"These are things you'd never notice just talking to me, but they're very tiring for me," she said at Letterman.
But she moves a lot on stage, where she has no tics.
The US talk show host Letterman regularly hosts celebrities such as Barack Obama, George Clooney, Malala Yousafszai, Melinda Gates and Lizzo on his show.
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