What Is A Good Career For Someone With Tourettes Syndrome?

February 19, 2010 – 4:53 am

Having tourettes has made me a liability to any employer I work for. I would like to find a career path that would lead to a job where I can become an asset.

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  1. 9 Responses to “What Is A Good Career For Someone With Tourettes Syndrome?”

  2. Read this book for inspiration: “Front of the Class, How Touretttes Syndrome Made Me The Teacher I Never Had”, by Brad Cohen.
    Anything to do with computers or programming. Great field! Or Graphic Arts. While you are looking for a career, write a book about your experiences with you former employers! Ask the TSA to help you publish it!
    I very much resent the answer posted here that suggests that a person with TS should be shut away in a stockroom. RUDE!

    By Juliart on Feb 19, 2010

  3. I think u can be anything u want to be………..All u can do is try your best.

    By colleen f on Feb 19, 2010

  4. if you get treatment for your tourettes and a doctor can prove that it is not a risk to other people, you should be able to do any job you want. however, depending on whether your “ticks” get worse when you are nervous or being watched, you may try a job that you don’t have as much interaction with people. it is hard to say what a good job would be because you didn’t specify whether you had verbal, or motion (or both) ticks. If you have any motion ticks it would be best if you were not working in a place that you could hurt yourself, (i.e. you could fall or something could fall on you), or someone else. if you have verbal ticks it would probably be better not to work around people who would not understand. one job, if you are willing to go to school for it, would be a speech or motor therapist and you could specialize to help children and adults like yourself get better.

    By nedoglov on Feb 19, 2010

  5. how about a councilor?
    for people with tourettes?

    By Moma on Feb 20, 2010

  6. debt collector

    By alt.heal on Feb 20, 2010

  7. a dog trainer.

    By stealin4 on Feb 20, 2010

  8. Did you know that there are doctors with tourettes? Don’t limit your dreams because of it! My suggestion would be to talk to a job coach and explore different types of careers that YOU like, not what someone might suggest on Yahoo Answers.

    By PuttPutt on Feb 20, 2010

  9. You need a job where you don’t have to deal with the public like stockroom or warehouse where you mostly work alone.

    By katie-di on Feb 20, 2010

  10. There is an employee who works in Akron OH- full time in telemarketing. I believe he does not read the actual script to the person being called though. He’s been there for some time now. Yea, a bit of foul language escapes his lips about every 1/2 hour!! LOL

    By Sharayah on Feb 20, 2010

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