In this post, I would like to talk about the process I have been going through in recent years in trying to raise awareness of Tourette through my life story.
In the past year I have been getting more important exposure through students from a comprehensive high school in Beer Sheva.
Dealing with the Tourette is a difficult and shaky journey but also one that required me to gain powers and opportunities for personal victories. About 15 years ago, my recruitment to the military and my career in the permanent army marked the first significant achievement that led me to further achievements such as the work in the field of computing in the schools and the R&D center. And the task I got for raising awareness of Tourette with lectures for its audience in the “ February exception ”. About three years ago, I was approached by a young center of the Negev Regional Council to give a lecture to the general public on the story of my life with the syndrome. I debated with myself long and hard before I agreed. In lectures I am more vulnerable and exposed than when writing a blog where I am behind the computer. Despite the challenge, I knew I had to do this to raise awareness of Tourette Syndrome in Israeli society. Equipped with the incredible support of my family, I began to lecture and in doing so revealed new powers within me. Every day and every lecture I am required to harness all my mental powers. Every day I discover new sensations as well as things I have been through and buried during my life with the syndrome.
Further exposure, essentially televised, began earlier with an article in ” Second View ” that I participated in during the military and later also a short article in ” 11″.
In the past year, as a final project for movie students at a Comprehensive High School in Beer Sheva, they will prepare a personal article about me. The students came to me through Lior Lerner who makes us a radio club at the Zavta Club in Beer Sheva, to which I go every Tuesday. Lior Lerner is also the editor-in-chief of Newspaper Seven and prepared an article about me last year. They called to make an article about me as part of their final project and I answered yes right away. As a part of the film, they interviewed me and my parents. They also photographed me at a kibbutz and asked me to send them materials about me that also included pictures from my childhood. The film should be ready and shown around April or May 2023.
This exposure is good and meaningful to me and I believe and hope it will also help to familiarize people like me, who are dealing with Tourette Syndrome. I hope there will be more opportunities for such exposures, and not just mine. I will continue to give lectures, participate in articles, and find ways (like this blog) to promote awareness of Tourette Syndrome in Israeli society.
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