'I am quite proud': TikTok star Evie Meg shares her experience of life with Tourette syndrome 

With 13m followers on TikTok, Evie Meg posts about life with Tourette syndrome. Now she is moving beyond social media with a book, writes Marjorie Brennan

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Social media star Evie Meg, aka This Trippy Hippie, has an audience that most writers can only dream of — she has almost 13m followers on TikTok and millions also watch her videos on YouTube, in which she posts about what it is like to live with Tourette syndrome. Now she is moving beyond social media to share her story in her book My Nonidentical Twin: What I’d Like You to Know about Living with Tourette’s. And even though she can reach millions across the globe with a tap or a swipe, she still relished the thrill of seeing her words in the slightly more old-fashioned medium of print.

“When I held the book for the first time, I did cry a little bit. It was so weird because for so many months I was looking at it on the screen but then I had it in my hands. It was really overwhelming but it was just the most amazing feeling. It will be so surreal to see it on the shelves, I am looking forward to going on a bit of a book hunt in different bookshops, that will be really cool.” she says.