'I felt Tourette's would ruin my life, now I teach at Cambridge'
She assumed it would pass, but it was a vocal tic and her first known manifestation of her Tourette's syndrome, a condition that causes people to make sudden, repetitive sounds or movements."How am I going to have a family? How am I going to have a job?" Cole, 32, remembers asking herself as she lay awake at night after her diagnosis in her 20s at her home on the Debden Estate near Loughton, Essex. "There was no-one I knew that had Tourette's, and I didn't see anyone in the public eye that had Tourette's - and if they did, they were a figure of ridicule.
- ▪She assumed it would pass, but it was a vocal tic and her first known manifestation of her Tourette's syndrome, a condition that causes people to make sudden, repetitive sounds or movements."How am I going to have a family?
- ▪How am I going to have a job?" Cole, 32, remembers asking herself as she lay awake at night after her diagnosis in her 20s at her home on the Debden Estate near Loughton, Essex.
- ▪"There was no-one I knew that had Tourette's, and I didn't see anyone in the public eye that had Tourette's - and if they did, they were a figure of ridicule.
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'I felt Tourette's would ruin my life, now I teach at Cambridge'Image caption, Throughout her academic life, Dr Amanda Cole has kept her Tourette's hidden - until nowByLaurence CawleyEast InvestigationsPublished1 hour agoDr Amanda Cole was 15 and sitting in a religious studies class when she experienced a peculiar spasm at the back of throat. She assumed it would pass, but it was a vocal tic and her first known manifestation of her Tourette's syndrome, a condition that causes people to make sudden, repetitive sounds or movements."How am I going to have a family? How am I going to have a job?" Cole, 32, remembers asking herself as she lay awake at night after her diagnosis in her 20s at her home on the Debden Estate near Loughton, Essex.
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