This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

Abby Myers grew up in Brooklyn and married a guy she'd known since they were kids.

Their first son, David David was born in 1968. By the time David was

two, Abbey noticed something was different about him. David's face would twitch.

He sometimes made involuntary noises. His arms flail face would disturbed by the movements because other kids would make fun of him.

David's teachers often got upset with him in class.

So you can imagine the torture that he went through.

One Sunday morning when David was eight, Abby watched him try to read the funnies, but

he couldn't keep his head steady enough.

It was heartbreaking.

That's producer Dan Weisman, the host of a new podcast about the cost of health care,

called an arm and a leg.

Watching David struggle with the comics, Abby was ready to cry. She put off doing the dishes, sat down, and picked up another

section of the paper. And through total coincidence, there was an article about a teenager who had symptoms just like David's, facial ticks,

weird noises, flailing limbs.

I stood up and I yelled from my husband and I said, you have to read this.

This is what David has.

Abby and her husband brought the article to David's pediatrician and the doctor agreed

this story described exactly what David had. This condition will sound familiar to you, but at the time most people, even doctors, had never heard of it.

It was called Tourette Syndrome.

Speaking to doctors, many doctors after that, they said they never heard of it because they simply were not

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