August is Tourette’s awareness month. This year’s theme, “Loud until you listen”, challenges the stigma surrounding “hearing” a disability.

Press PLAY to hear Connor Macey discuss Tourette’s awareness and the challenges of the condition

Tourette’s Australia national education advisor Connor Macey told 6PR Long Lunch host Tod Johnston that the spectrum of neurological twitches is hugely varied, but that it is essentially the brain miscommunicating and sending the message to the wrong destination.

“It might be as simple as an eye twitch, or a sniff, or a grunt, or for some people it can be entire sentences”, Macey said.

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