#*involuntary movement*

[kaiserinjacky]

i’ve been getting muscle spasms for a bit and they’ve only been getting WORSE

[birdy-babe]

When his tail whips around like that >>>

Gifs from @tealvenetianmask !

[creekfiend]

the other thing is that like... respectfully. antipsych may not have much to do with your life. that's fine. prison abolition does not have much to do with my life -- except as those two things intertwine institutionally. the prison system isn't one I have to face.

but it would not be appropriate for me to enter those conversations and be like "well what about when the cops helped me find my dog, who will help me find my dog" you know? like. or at the very least if I did that, people whose day to day lives have been horribly impacted by the prison system would be deeply justified in telling me to sit the fuck down, lol

[marejadilla]

Johan Barrios, “Involuntary Movement″, 2024, oil on canvas. Colombian, b. 1984.

[crippleprophet]

hey, i don't want to put you out or anything, i was just wondering if like off the top of your head if you knew any disability studies articles/books/whatever that center (or even just feature) tic/involuntary movement disorders?

so the answer to this was pretty much no but i spent a bit of time poking around and turned up this 2023 undergraduate honors thesis (link) by a student with tourette’s which seems like a solid starting point for going down the citation rabbit hole!

that piece is “The Embodied Performance of Tics and Tourette Syndrome in the Academic Environment” by Benjamin Allen; i’m only ~1/4th through rn but they argue for a continuum of ticcing + criticize the diagnostic system so i’m comfortable reccing it on that front! the (non-medical) tic-related works cited there are:

Buckser, Andrew. “Before Your Very Eyes: Illness, Agency, and the Management of Tourette Syndrome.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, 2008, pp. 167-192.

Buckser, Andrew. “The Empty Gesture: Tourette Syndrome and the Semantic Dimension of Illness.” Ethnology, vol. 45, no. 4, 2006, pp. 255- 24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20456601.

Curtis-Wendlandt, Lisa. “Time and the Tic Disorder Triad.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, vol 27, no. 2, 2020, pp. 183-199.

Curtis-Wendlandt, Lisa, and Jack Reynolds. “Why Tourette syndrome research needs philosophical phenomenology.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 20, no. 4, 2021, pp. 573-600.

Miller, James. “The Voice in Tourette Syndrome.” New Literary History, vol. 32 no. 3, 2001, pp. 519-536. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/nlh.2001.0039.

Trubody, Ben. “Ticced off: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of The Experience of Tourette’s Syndrome.” Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014.

i also searched a handful of disability studies journals for a variety of keywords (movement disorder, tic, tourette’s, involuntary movement, chorea, huntington’s) but didn’t turn up much unfortunately, so all but the first of this next list include someone with tics and/or involuntary movements rather than being about moving involuntarily.

haven’t read these so i can’t speak to the politics / quality (although i’ll make a post if i’m able to read more) but here’s what seemed potentially relevant! also if anything is paywalled please don’t give T&F your money lol, try SciHub or if you can’t find something i can ask around for somebody with institutional access!

Cultural Differences in Reactions to Tics and Tic Severity (2021)

Using virtual reality to implement disability studies’ advocacy principles: uncovering the perspectives of people with disability (2023)

I had every right to be there: discriminatory acts towards young people with disabilities on public transport (2020)

From comedy targets to comedy-makers: disability and comedy in live performance (2015)

From the Case Files: Reconstructing a history of involuntary sterilisation (2010)

i also want to mention “Movements of the Uncontrollable Body Part Two” by Bronwyn Valentine (2019), a creative writing piece about her experiences of embodiment + ableism with spina bifida that i first read pretty soon after it was published & went looking for after developing my movement disorder a year ago because it was so impactful. @fndportal also has some incredibly vital work.

also if you haven’t already read Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s Staring: Why We Look, it’s not specifically about involuntary movements but definitely a core text for theorizing any visibilized disability.

i hope some of that is helpful!! if anybody checks any of these out i’d love to hear your thoughts/critiques! all the best to you & i hope these offer some resonance with + understanding of your experiences 💓💓

[neuroticboyfriend]

This is a genuine question but would epilepsy fall under neuropunk? I just haven't looked into it fully and at a distance the community is mostly focused on autism/ADHD. It's confusing because it's a thing that isn't the same kind of punkness as my ADHD/BPD with NPD traits stuff. It's something else entirely. More physical than my BPD but less physical than hEDS, if that makes sense. Feels somewhere inbetween.

yeah, it would! nonpsychiatric neurological conditions count under neurodivergent (what neuropunk is based around). that's the cool thing about the term neurodivergent - it doesn't draw a line between "physical" and "mental," or encourage conditons being boxed into one or the other.

for example, I'm neurodivergent for both my schizophrenia and my spinal nerve condition. i'm neurodivergent for both my autism and my involuntary movements (which ,I don't know if they're seizures or from the spine condition). etc. etc. and i can be neuropunk in relation to all of these things.

[rox-reads]

alec what the fuck

ok so his power is less being able to cause involuntary movement in his target, and more being able to make them move however he wants except he needs prolonged contact to reach that point

[benjingler]

Moral Orel is like one of the most triggering shows to me I keep tweaking

[hulludragon]

I be ticcin again twitchin even feelin like a malfunctioning robot

fnaf

[crippleprophet]

fuck it. self-care

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[mischiefmanifold]

Hey there, do you have some cool sources on other types on involuntary movement that are not tics?

Yes, I do! Here is a list of involuntary movements, a simple description, and links to resources on them:

Akathisia -> an inability to remain still

StatPearls article

cleveland clinic article (very good)

Akinesia -> the loss of spontaneous, voluntary muscle movement

StatPearls article (free article)

healthline article

Athetosis -> slow, continuous, involuntary writhing movements commonly affecting arms and hands

healthline article

Chorea -> rapid, chaotic movements that seem to flow from one body part to another

NINDS article

StatPearls article

Dystonia -> sustained or repetitious muscular contractions; often produces abnormal posture

mayo clinic article

NINDS article

StatPearls article

Hemiballismus -> sudden, intermittent, flinging, or ballistic high amplitude movements commonly affecting proximal limb muscles

StatPearls article

Myoclonus → sudden, brief, involuntary muscle twitches

mayo clinic article

NINDS article

StatPearls article

Parkinsonism -> a clinical syndrome characterized by slowness, rigidity, tremor, and postural instability

StatPearls article

parkinson's disease vs parkinsonism

types of parkinsonism (parkinson's UK)

types of parkinsonism (parkinson's foundation)

Stereotypies -> repetitive, rhythmic movements with typical onset in early childhood

stereotypies in adults

medlink article

Tardive Dyskinesia -> uncontrollable and repetitive movements of the tongue, lips, face, trunk, and extremities

webmd article

Tics -> sudden, rapid, recurrent, and nonrhythmic movements or vocalizations

mayo clinic article on tourette syndrome

NINDS article on tourette syndrome

child mind institute article on tics and tourette

Tremor -> rhythmic back-and-forth or oscillating involuntary movements

NINDS article

classification of tremor

(at request I can find Tumblr or blog posts talking about personal experiences with some of these movements)

Basic definitions come from this article: https://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/effects/drug-induced-abnormal-involuntary-movements-prevalence-and-treatment/

[steampunk-raven]

my brain fails to understand that there is something in between “constant involuntary movement” and “paralysis” and that something is called “not being annoying”

[neuroticboyfriend]

i sure love suddenly feeling inexplicably Off and slightly unaware of my surroundings only for my body to begin randomly, sometimes violently, jolting. and then it goes back to normal as if nothing happened. like ??? hello ??? there wasnt even any loud/sudden noise this time. the tv was on normal volume. what do you want from me. what is this shit

[docbe]

Yknow I know I’ve been having a lot of brain and fatigue issues for a while now, but parts of this last week or two I’ve been feeling like actually *awake* for the first time in what feels like years…which does help put it into perspective bc it’s really easy to start thinking like “what if I’m just blowing this out of proportion?”

No, the difference between Struggling and being actually mentally present is huge

[fleshbeetle]

I find it morbidly funny (in the most literal sense) that when it comes to animal death I always end up being the one in my family who basically plays the role of the coroner/mortician . I dispose of the mice from mouse traps and bury dead birds who fly into windows and confirm whether a pet rodent is dead, and put the body in the freezer until the weather is warm enough to dig a little grave, and I dig the grave too. Because I'm the least squeamish and know the most about animals as well as the processes of death. But I don't really mind if it makes it easier for everyone else

[scorpius-rising]

Turns out that ruining your sleep schedule has a noticeable impact on mental self regulation huh