your child has TS but you do not ....

I think if you have a child with TS but don't have it yourself it is always good to speak to adults or older kids who do as they can give some insight into what it is like (and have lived with it for some time). However all cases vary and there is no one defining normal presentation. Individuals manifest different aspects or combinations of the spectrum of symptoms and behaviours. Parents of TS children often confer mostly with each other and can end up going round and round in circles trying to pin things down, working out parenting approaches and making sense of the collection of 'so called' comorbidities and the confusing and often contradictory literature on TS and it's treatment/provision. I think TS, although a complex disorder involving central processing, needs to viewed holistically, as an integrated whole and not as a bewildering collection of separate disorders. Always beware of over-medicalising developmental disorders like TS and ASD etc. and getting too much into an 'illness' perspective.