Yahoo Finance Billie Eilish Is “Incredibly Offended” by Insensitive Reactions to Her Tourette’s Syndrome
Billie Eilish recently got v candid about living with Tourette's Syndrome. On the season 4 premiere of David Letterman's Netflix talk show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, the Grammy Award-winning singer acknowledged her neurological disorder after experiencing a tic during the episode. This opened the door to Billie speaking about everything from her initial diagnosis to how it affects her daily life and how she's "incredibly offended" by those who have insensitive reactions.
"If you film me for long enough, you're going to see lots of tics," she began. "I never don't tic at all, because the main tics that I do constantly, all day long, are like, I wiggle my ear back and forth and raise my eyebrow and click my jaw...and flex my arm here and flex this arm, flex these muscles. These are things you would never notice if you're just having a conversation with me, but for me, they're very exhausting."
Billie then went on to explain that she was diagnosed with Tourette's when she was 11 after having small, physical tics as a child that intensified as she aged. When she's "focusing" on specific tasks such as singing or riding horses, she said she doesn't experience the disorder's symptoms as much. Either way, insensitive reactions have definitely upset her.
"The most common way that people react is they laugh, because they think I'm trying to be funny," she explained to David. "They think I'm [ticcing] as a funny move. And so they go, 'Ha.' And I'm always left incredibly offended by that. Or they go, 'What?' And then I go, 'I have Tourette's.'"
However, since becoming a public figure (I mean, she legit has the sixth most-Liked photo on Instagram, NBD), the 20-year-old said she's recently found comfort in knowing that others share the same experience. "So many people have it that you would never know. A couple artists came forward and said, 'I've actually always had Tourette's.' And I'm not going to out them because they don't want to talk about it. But that was actually really interesting to me because I was like, 'You do? What?'" Welp, consider a major bombshell dropped! We love this for Billie ❤️.
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