When I was a teen I had this thing I had to do, move my arm in a certain way.
I don’t have any noticeable tics now, except one, I flex my muscles in a rapid motion and I do this all the time. I don’t think people notice. Usually my upper arm muscles.
If you were held at gun point and told not to do it, would you be able to control it? I think my things are things I could control if I concentrated. But it would be uncomfortable not to do it.
Sometimes when I have an especially unwanted past negative thought I say friendship’s over
this refers to more than a decade ago when I broke a friendship circle because they could see the real me