Leftwing Idiot and I were reminiscing earlier about a ticced song I used to sing on the subject of sheepdogs. Neither of us could remember the words, and unusually nor could my tics. Fortunately I’d written them down in this post.…

The other night I had a ‘ticcing fit’ in the middle of the night. My muscles had gone very tense and my body was so locked up I couldn’t press my buzzer to raise the alarm.

Thankfully my night time support worker heard the unusual noises I was making and came to help.…

Today’s been a beautiful day. The sun was out, the air was warm and still, and it wasn’t hot or muggy. After a very productive morning and afternoon, my support worker Will and I set off to explore the nearby Burgess Park that’s recently been refurbished.…

Last night Leftwing Idiot and I headed into town for a night of comedy at the Bloomsbury Theatre. Mixing Tourettes Syndrome and live performance can have unexpected and volatile results so I’m extremely careful in choosing what to go and see and where to go and see it.…

Even if you’ve only read a tiny bit of this blog, you’ll almost certainly know that my tics have a strange obsession with animals. Tics come and go, but there are always a handful of creatures that stick around, and get mentioned over and over again.…

I’ve just watched a new video made by Scope and Stephen Fry which challenges us to consider the power that just two words can have. The examples they use in the video include:

‘I’m pregnant’, ‘Marry me’, ‘You’re ugly’ or ‘That’s beautiful’.…

A couple of weeks ago I saw a post by a friend on Facebook that made me stop and think. The post was by Georgie who, like me, has Tourettes. Georgie has recently undergone neurosurgery as part of a trial currently being carried out in the UK.…

This afternoon Leftwing Idiot and I went to a very special party. It was to celebrate ten years of the children’s charity Daytrippers Foundation.

Over the last ten years Daytrippers Foundation has helped nearly 20,000 disabled children to go on exciting trips or take part in innovative events.…

This morning I woke up late but cheerful. I don’t usually work on Saturdays but today I did because I was covering for a colleague. For no clear reason my tics decided it would be a good morning for a Tourettes re-working of a traditional Scottish song, The Bonnie Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond, so as I rushed about getting ready, Zoë, my support worker, frantically scribbled down my new lyrics.…

This evening Claire cooked a lovely dinner at her flat for me and Ruth and Ruth’s friend Meghan. Claire’s planning on moving soon so this might be one of the last meals we have together in her current flat.

Soon after we’d finished dinner I had a ‘ticcing fit’ and Claire and Ruth helped me.…