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Outlook: Gaming with Tourette’s: Sweet Anita’s success story

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Sweet Anita moves as she sits in her gaming chair, wearing headphones

09/02/2022 GMT

Gaming with Tourette’s: Sweet Anita’s success story

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Sweet Anita overcame loneliness and isolation to become a famous gamer online

Before she was diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, Sweet Anita was bullied for her tics and couldn’t find work. Today, she’s found success and community through gaming online.

This programme contains offensive language. Sweet Anita has Tourette’s syndrome, a neurological condition which causes her to make involuntary sounds and movements. Her specific type of Tourette’s is called coprolalia, which means she sometimes says offensive or inappropriate things. Before her diagnosis, she didn't know why she was different to everyone else. She was bullied at school and making friends was difficult. Lonely and confused, she was told by a doctor her tics were ‘attention seeking’. But today, with a medical diagnosis and a new-found confidence, Anita is a successful streamer on the gaming platform Twitch, with an avid fanbase and a growing community online.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Producer: May Cameron

(Photo: Sweet Anita. Credit: Sweet Anita)

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