My flatmate Poppy is just coming to the end of her degree in costume design.
She’s in the final few weeks of her course and has been busy making some amazing outfits. As a result the castle has been awash with dressmaking pins.…
I’ve been looking forward to writing this entry and filling you in on my trip to Scotland to visit friends, many of whom also have Tourettes. It’s been one of the most amazing weekends I’ve had in ages.
Warm Welcome
Ruth, Claire and I arrived late on Friday night to be met at the airport by our friend Pauline.…
Here is what I ticced over lunch:
“Ive got all the lalias”
“Echolalia”
“Palilalia”
“Rambolalia”
“Discolalia”
Don’t’ bother looking the last two up. The first two are specific symptoms of Tourettes. The second two aren’t.
Fat Sister laughed and asked, “What’s Discolalia, compulsively copying someone else’s dance moves?”…
I wrote recently about one of the many tic-filled messages I’ve left for Laura on her voicemail. When I called her today she answered, so I didn’t need to leave a message, but the first thing I said was, “I’m a prostitute.”…
Leftwing Idiot, Poppy, and I were watching TV. Someone on the programme we had on mentioned something about having three wishes. My tics leapt at the opportunity of making three of their own:
Wish one: “A bin”
Wish two: “Latvia to be conquested by a bear”
Wish three: “For history to be repeated”
Leftwing Idiot laughed and said ‘You’re the last person on earth who should be given three wishes.’
Tonight I went to a Club Attitude event with Bunny and our friends Mic and Sophie. The event was organised by Attitude is Everything, an organisation that makes it easier for disabled people to enjoy to live music. It was a night of great bands in an amazing super-accessible venue.…
Annoyingly, the arm tics I mentioned the other day have carried on. In particular I’m making a movement that involves extending my arm straight in front of me and making a circular gesture. This has been causing problems with eating, drinking and typing.…
One of my regular tics at the moment is, “Women” which comes out in a strange, slightly robotic voice. Occasionally it gets extended to, “I love women,” and that’s what I ticced this afternoon at work. One of my colleagues absentmindedly added, ‘Me too!’…
Leftwing Idiot was wearing his Adidas sweater this evening when we were having dinner with Poppy. I’ve written before about my obsession with touching the trefoil logo with three fingers, something that’s commonly known at the castle as giving it a boofing.…
Baclofen, the new drug I’m taking, comes as a liquid. My arm tics make taking it with a teaspoon impossible so I use a syringe. It’s a syringe without a needle so I can just squirt the medication straight into my mouth.…
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