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Living with Tourette's: How my Disability Became my Strength | Brian To | TEDxUCR
Imagine explaining yourself every time you order coffee. Now imagine turning that into your strength.
Who it's for
To opens with the everyday burden of having to explain himself to strangers, which many people with visible differences will recognise immediately.
Hopeless→Hopeful
Feelings it meets
What it is
A TEDx talk given at TEDxUCR and published on the TEDx Talks YouTube channel, in which Brian To speaks about his experience of living with Tourette's and how he came to see the condition as a source of strength.
Where to find it
YouTube, TEDx Talks channel (free). A third-party transcript is posted on meon1.com.
Before you start
Heads up: Describes depression and school struggles.
Age: Ages 12+
Take my wine in my own cup, friend. It loses its wreath of foam when poured into that of others.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 61
