Baylen Dupree Uses TLC Show to Reframe Tourette's at 23
baylen dupree says she is not trying to speak for everyone with Tourette's syndrome. On TLC's Baylen Out Loud, she is showing how she lives with it every day, and that includes motor and vocal tics that can shift with stress, fatigue, excitement, anxiety, or illness.
At 23, Dupree-Dooley says her goal is simpler than advocacy slogans: she wants viewers to see what the condition actually looks like in daily life. She was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic in 2020, when she was 18, and later began sharing her story on social media because she did not want to hide from herself anymore.
Tourette's on TLC
Season 1 of Baylen Out Loud premiered on TLC in January 2025, giving Dupree-Dooley a national platform to talk through the parts of Tourette's that are easiest to misunderstand. She has said, "I'm not representing everybody with Tourette. I'm representing me and how I live with this condition and how I'm growing with this condition."
She has also said, "Tourette's syndrome is looked at in a negative way, and my entire platform is about bringing it to light and being myself, because at the end of the day, we are only one person." The show turns that into a weekly case study in how a neurological disorder plays out in ordinary settings, not just in medical language.
Driving, kitchens, grocery stores
Dupree-Dooley does not drive and depends on someone else for a ride or a rideshare. She has said a kitchen is a dangerous place because of sharp utensils, a hot stove, and breakable dishes, while a grocery store or restaurant can become a social challenge because of her coprolalia.
Coprolalia is an involuntary vocal tic involving obscene or offensive words and phrases, and it affects about 10% of people with Tourette's syndrome. That makes her on-camera explanation unusually concrete: viewers are not getting a broad awareness campaign, but a first-person account of why everyday errands can require planning.
Colin Dooley and Season 3
In Season 2, Dupree-Dooley and Colin Dooley moved into their own apartment outside Washington, D.C., and traveled to the U.K. with his family to try Neupulse, a wearable device designed to help suppress motor and vocal tics. The device is available only in the U.K. for now and may eventually get FDA approval in the U.S.
Earlier this month, the couple tied the knot, and Baylen Out Loud returned with Season 3 on May 19. Dupree-Dooley has called Dooley a calming presence, which matters here because the show is no longer only about diagnosis; it is also about how she builds a life around a condition that still shapes where she goes, how she gets there, and what she can comfortably do in public.
Her sharpest line is the right one for the series: "What I want people to know is that you need to share your story and be vulnerable and be scared, to grow." If Baylen Out Loud keeps doing that on camera, it gives Tourette's syndrome the kind of plainspoken visibility most awareness campaigns never reach.
