Can I ask how you commented ? This post was removed by an admin <| sep |> Not Santa , but when I was maybe 5 or so , Santa cured me from a tic I had acquired . There was a TV show where kids would wink into the camera and I wanted to be able to do that , too , so I started practicing and what was practice soon turned into a fullblown tic . My parents where at a loss . How do you make a kid stop doing sth . she ' s doing subconsciously ? Cue Santa . He comes in , checks his big golden book of naughty and nice and tells me , it says I have been blinking my eyes excessively . And he disapproves and it needs to stop . I was so terrified , I consciously stopped blinking . I was pretty much running around with my eyes wide open for half a year . I remember it was summer , when I had the big revelation that everyone blinks every once in a while and I could relax a bit . But by then , I was over the tic . So thanks Santa . I appreciate it .