“People Think I’m Doing It on Purpose” – Baylen Dupree Exposes the Biggest Lie About Tourette’s
What if the world kept accusing you of choosing something your brain can’t control?
That’s the reality TLC star Baylen Dupree says she lives with every day — and it’s rooted in one of the biggest misconceptions about Tourette’s Syndrome.
Speaking openly on The Sarah Fraser Show, Baylen dismantled the idea that Tourette’s is just a series of random twitches or shocking outbursts. According to her, that simplified image couldn’t be further from the truth — and it’s doing real harm.
Tourette’s, Baylen explains, exists on a broad and often confusing spectrum. While pop culture focuses on sudden vocal explosions, many people experience complex tics that look deliberate, controlled, or even intentional.
And that’s where the real trouble begins.
Baylen revealed that some of her movements are so intricate that even medical textbooks label them as appearing “purposeful.” To an untrained eye, these tics can look like conscious gestures or planned actions — leading people to assume she’s misbehaving, exaggerating, or worse, faking her condition.
“The judgment is often harder than the tics themselves,” Baylen admitted.
She explained that being misunderstood doesn’t just come from strangers online. Even professionals — people trained to understand neurological disorders — sometimes fall into the trap of assuming intent where there is none.
That assumption carries serious consequences.
Baylen says being perceived as “doing it on purpose” fuels stigma, invites punishment, and strips people with Tourette’s of credibility. Instead of compassion, they’re met with suspicion. Instead of support, they’re told to “control it.”
The irony? The more pressure someone with Tourette’s feels to suppress their tics, the worse the symptoms often become.
Baylen’s message is blunt but necessary: Tourette’s is not a performance, not a habit, and not a choice. It’s a neurological condition that doesn’t always look the way people expect.
By speaking out, Baylen hopes to shift the conversation away from judgment and toward understanding — forcing the public to confront how little it truly knows about life with Tourette’s.
Because until those misconceptions are challenged, people like Baylen will keep being blamed for something they never chose.
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