I Spent A Day With SWEET ANITA: "When Tourette's Is Reality"

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🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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I spent a day with Sweet Anita to learn the truth about her growing popularity on twitch and her late diagnosis of Tourettes. Sponsors ▸Go to http://betterhelp.com/padilla to get 10% off your first month! ▸Get SurfShark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/ANTHONY - enter promo code ANTHONY for 83% off and 3 extra months for free! 💥NEW YOUTOOZ FIGURE: https://youtooz.com/products/anthony-padilla 🧨HUGE thank you to: ▸ Sweet Anita - https://instagram.com/sweetanitatwitch/?hl=en & https://twitter.com/sweetanita 🎥Crew ▸ Creator, Director, Writer, etc. - Anthony Padilla ▸ Executive Producer - Alessandra Catanese ▸ Producer, Co-writer & Research - Elise Felber ▸ Director of Photography/Gaffer - Kathy Sue Holtorf ▸ Camera Operator - Amber Steele ▸ Social Media Manager - Mallory Myers ▸ Editor - Mike Criscimagna AKA Mork Crispy ▸ Assistant Editor - Patrick Horba ▸ Assistant Editor - Ash Duckworth ▸ Sound Editor - Gareth Hird ▸ Post PA - Levi Villalpando ▸ PA - Joshua Dozier 🎵Theme Music Composer - Matt Good AKA The King of Emo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by BetterHelp Online Therapy.
0:02.4	Visit BetterHelp.
0:03.4	Because sometimes existing is exhausting.
0:06.0	You bitch.
0:07.0	I'm sorry.
0:10.0	Was that a tick?
0:11.0	Yeah.
0:12.0	My name's Anthony Padilla and I spent today with Sweet Anita to uncover the truth
0:16.7	about how becoming a popular Twitch streamer has had life-threatening consequences,
0:20.9	how her undiagnosed Tourette havoc on her life for 27 years and
0:25.2	how she's been able to turn the ticks that she was once mercilessly bullied for
0:28.8	into the very thing that people celebrate about her now.
0:31.6	Hello Anita!
0:34.0	Hello!
0:35.0	You've dealt with some horrifying and violent stalkers.
0:42.0	Yeah, I guess. What do you think it is about you that draws this kind of
0:46.8	obsession? The easy answer is that if you're visible to a huge number of people at least some of them are going to be weird and
0:51.8	I think that implies to anyone even if they're not if they're not content creators because even before I started making content I used to have trouble with drawing the wrong kind of attention. I think that the Tourette's makes me seem vulnerable and
1:03.8	accessible. Can you get into the numerous stalking encounters that you've
1:09.5	had? Since being a content creator there was a guy who became obsessed with me, he moved from some other country
1:14.8	in Europe to live down the street from me. He'd wait in my back garden for me to leave the house and follow me.
1:19.7	He would
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