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I am going to tell you about Tahretts Syndrome. A student in my 5th grade class has it.

Tahretts syndrome is a genetic brain disability. Every 3 in 1,000 people have it. Someone in my class has it. a paragraph as an exaple of Tahretts that my friend made up: "Mike is like any other kid. He gets noticed a lot, but not for his cool skateboard. Mike gets notice because he has Tahretts Syndrome. He shruggs a lot and twitches. Mike cant help it. The syndrome of Tahretts makes him do that stuff.".

Tahretts syndrome makes you twitch and shrugg a lot. You cant help it. The symptoms are called tics. You may be thinking about the tick parasite, but its not a bug. It makes it hard for you to concetrate because your trying not to "tic".

Think of little people in your brain working, they all have jobs to do. With Tahretts you have extra people in your brain. There always bored. The play around and make you blink, shrugg, or twitch. Thats what its like. It would be really hard to do school work. Tahretts is genetic. It runs in families. If your mom or dad has it, your likely to have it, too. If you think about it every 3 in a 1,000 people is a lot of people with Tahretts.

I thought I would share that with SDK. And please, if you see someone with Tahretts syndrome, dont stare. Would you like someone staring at you?

Thanks,
Sky