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Chronic motor tic disorder and job interviews?

I've been having these motor tics (compulsive eye blinking, eye rolling, raising eyes toward ceiling, eye squinting, head jerking, neck twisting--sometimes these can all occur at the same time in a single second) since I was 10 years old. Though my condition is present among those with Tourettes Syndrome, I do not have Tourettes as my tics are limited to my eyes only, and in order for me to have Tourettes, I would have to have at least one vocal tics which I don't. Anyhow, now that I am an adult and about to graduate from college, I am concerned that I will have trouble getting a job with these tics, because job interviewers will see me doing these tics and think I'm purposely being rude when I don't intend to be.

Here's a video example of my predicament that I found on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjgIfoSlFqQ (at the 1:47-1:52 mark)

Advice on how to deal with this?

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    6 years ago

    I think more will depend on the job you are interviewing for - in customer service it would be an issue, but not so much in IT tech support.

    Good Luck.

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