# Can someone with Tourettes drive? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 14, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-with-tourettes-drive/567650 "2011-01-14T21:48:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-with-tourettes-drive/567650/21 "2016-05-16T04:05:15Z")
My cousin has Tourettes. He’s a truck driver. So, yeah, they can drive. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-with-tourettes-drive/567650/22 "2016-05-16T10:33:04Z")
> [@LeTourettesGamer](#): > > You DO realize that Tourette’s Syndrome is a neurological disorder, right? I didn’t mean to say that it wasn’t neurological. Just that it is a bit different from other neurological disorders in that tics are affected by one’s affective state. I know that I have a couple of tics that are elicited by certain thoughts. I don’t think Parkinson’s has this feature, though I wouldn’t be surprised if Huntington’s does to some small degree. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-with-tourettes-drive/567650/23 "2016-05-16T12:25:46Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I’ve read things written by people with Tourette’s and they make it sound a lot like trying to resist the type of impulses that go along with both ADHD and OCD - they _can_ be repressed at least for a while, but it’s psychologically uncomfortable and eventually you more or less have to give into them. That makes sense considering a lot of scientists think there’s a common root cause to all three disorders (and schizophrenia too). > > As for the OP, the one person I know for sure who has Tourette’s drives. It’s more like trying to not cough when you have a tickle in your throat. You can do it for a while, sure, but eventually you have to cough. It becomes physically unbearable not to. Also, in my experience, resistance makes ticing worse when you do give in. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-with-tourettes-drive/567650/24 "2016-05-16T15:01:35Z")
But can zombies with TS drive? 😃 I have Tourette’s and I drive just fine. Like most folks with TS my tics are relatively minor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-with-tourettes-drive/567650.md?page=1)