Anita, 30, is a full-time carer for her mum. For the hundreds of thousands of gamers who visit her on Twitch, she's also known as the sassy and challenging Sweet Anita, a video gamer and streamer. But for a while she was waiting to be thrown off the platform for breaking all the rules.
When she first started broadcasting on the well-known platform Twitch, Anita feared she would be thrown off because her verbal tics are of the kind known as coprolalia, where you might swear or say inappropriate things. It usually starts during childhood, but the tics and other symptoms can sometimes improve after several years or even go away completely.
He immediately assumed she was a fellow streamer because she was very talkative on the game's voice chat - a common feature in online games which allows you to discuss tactics and chat to other players by using a headset with a microphone. While playing, she talks to her viewers and answers questions from them. A regular query she gets is what her weirdest tic is.
One supportive commenter at the bottom of a YouTube page featuring her "Tourette's highlights" says: "I feel like Tourette's is like just letting autocomplete finish your sentence but it's only the things society tells you not to say." Though the platform supports Anita's endeavours, not all of the attention she receives has been positive.She says: "I had a massive wave of that when I initially hit the platform."