As part of my Habit Reversal Therapy (HRT) I’ve got a set of exercises to practice many times every day. My therapist suggested doing them at times when my tics are bad, and even doing things that I know make them worse.…

A few weeks ago I described how instead of saying ‘Ouch’ whenever I hurt myself I had started to tic, “Mystery.” This has now inexplicably evolved, and the new indication I’m in pain is, “Minty.”

‘Ouch’ has another relevance today with BBC Ouch’s controversial columnist Disability Bitch writing about disabled superheroes.…

I’ve been working late this evening so I’ve only just got back to the lair, and I’m feeling angry and depressed. It isn’t anything tic-related this time. It’s about a consultation meeting organised by the Council about cuts to services in the local area which I took a group of children to earlier.…

I’ve just got back from a brilliant day at Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, organised by my friend Annie the Wolf who’s a dancer and interested in the movements of my tics. I spent this afternoon along with her, Leftwing Idiot and Keir in an amazing rehearsal space.…

I came across an article online earlier which describes the results of a recent research study into Tourettes, based on some earlier findings. The researchers used MRI to look at the area of the brain responsible for controlling movement and they found there were differences in the white matter connections between people with Tourettes and those without.…

I was having a relaxed morning browsing the Internet, looking at how yesterday’s march was being reported when I noticed a familiar masked figure on the BBC news homepage. Not a marching anarchist, but Touretteshero, me!

I was interviewed by a journalist last week, but I’d not realised the article was going up today.…

The government’s spending cuts are brutal, hitting crucial frontline services throughout the country. Today I joined thousands of people on a protest march through central London, organised by the TUC.

I’ve been on protests before but they’ve always been against war and violence in other countries.…

This afternoon I went for my Habit Reversal Therapy. I got to the station earlier than normal and asked a member of staff for information about the next train. I had the feeling he wasn’t really listening and just wanted me to go away but he did tell me the train time and platform.…

I’ve mentioned loads of times how often squirrels have featured in my tics, but at the moment I’m hardly ticcing about them at all.

Earlier on, when I was walking through a park near work, I passed a group of young people who were sitting near the basketball courts, enjoying the sunshine.…

I’ve written before about how my tics interfere with the way I walk and how they make every step unpredictable. Turning my ankle over is one of the most painful of them. This happens to most people every now and again, but for me it happens many times a day and means that I lurch about even more than normal.…