Getting a tic (a brief motor movement or vocalisation) is actually super common but the use of a certain social media platform is starting to create them faster and in larger numbers in groups not usually affected.

Today we look at the impact of a platform like TikTok on vulnerable minds and how a certain genre within the platform's users leads to those who already suffer from tics to be triggered.

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CREDITS 

Host: Claire Murphy

With thanks to: 

Haze Elford - Haze has Tourettes Syndrome and uses her experience to volunteer with the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia, she is also a regular TikTok user.

Professor Russell Dale - Clinical Director of the Kids Neuroscience Centre and a paediatric neurologist based at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.

*Kyra - Mum of a young boy who developed tics

*Name changed for privacy

Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Liv Proud

Audio Producer: Thom Lion

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