1st period
Tics that result in body movements are known as "motor tics". Common examples include: blinking or twitching the eyes wrinkling the nose or grimacing biting the lip or moving the tongue (such as sticking the tongue out) jerking or banging the head twisting the neck squatting, hopping or bending over to touch the floor snapping the fingers shrugging the shoulders touching other people or things obscene gestures or movements. Common examples include: coughing grunting animal noises, such as barking snorting hissing sniffing clearing the throat squeaking repeating a sound, word or phrase using obscene or offensive words and phrases (this is uncommon) Sometimes the normal flow of speech may be interrupted, or the tic may occur at the beginning of a sentence in a similar way to a Stammer.