pre warning: I am currently typing with the voice button thingy on keyboard since I find it hard to type with my Tourettes so sorry for any weird spellings or words if that happens!
Hi, my name is Layla and it’s my first time using fundraiser, there is so much terrible stuff happening in the world right now therefore I don’t expect people to donate to me seeing as people have worse problems, but my mummy said it’s never good to compare problems and that mine still matter.
so anyways, here’s my story and why I’m asking for donations 🙂
I first got diagnosed with Tourettes in year two when I was 6, and it has changed my life completely putting me in a terrible position where I feel lost. I tried my hardest to hide and suppress them, but in year nine I burnt out and dropped out of school because I physically couldn’t go in, I was getting seizure like spasms of tics and couldn’t breathe. I now go to an alternative school a few days a week for a couple hours and learn as much as I can in comfier clothes, and I am so greatful, but I still wake up with bruises or bleeding from doing tics in the night. I still cry myself to sleep because I love learning and I think it’s a privelage (sorry if I spelt that wrong) but I genuinely know I am a smart person, I used to get the highest grades and my teachers said I was the brightest in the class, it’s just such a shame because I have gcse exams coming up soon (I am currently in year 10) and I am planning to go to college and university, but I don’t know how to go on with education and get a life and a job and live normally with Tourettes.
it’s horrific, it has caused me severe depression and I have tried ending my life multiple times ending up in the hospital. And they have offered treatments, but it has always been too expensive, me and my mum are all on our own with no other family and I am so happy we finally have a flat that we are aloud to live in safely but it wasn’t always like that and we struggle to pay bills. And it doesn’t help that my mum is constantly having to buy me painkillers and muscle relaxers and fidget toys. I just want to feel normal and have a chance,
but anyways, the main point is that the doctors are offering two ways to help, one including a monthly payment for muscle relaxant injections and another for a brain surgery that costs £20,000
if you end up donating, thank you so much. You could really change my life and I know you’re an amazing person, because I believe donating always helps, always. No matter the person, I will always donate whatever I have left after bills and food too the homeless because even though I am not happy, I’m alive and able to eat and drink, so I will always give to those who can’t.
