It’s meetings day at work. Every Thursday I meet with the social work team in the morning and then in the afternoon my team has its own meeting. My colleagues have never seemed bothered or put off their stride by my tics.…

Very often, several times every day, strangers mimic the noises I’m making and it’s a reaction that I find puzzling. Laughing because something’s funny, being hostile because you’re offended, or backing away because you’re scared are all understandable reactions, but mimicking tics makes no sense at all.…

I’ve just put the phone down after talking to Leftwing Idiot. I’d only just left his house for the five minute walk back to the lair when something happened that made me call him in floods of tears.

An ambulance driver who’d been going past me in slow traffic had mimicked me over and over again shouting from his window, and when he saw me looking upset, he laughed.…

It’s Celebrity Big Brother time again and the house has welcomed its second person with Tourettes. This year Basshunter (Jonas Altberg) is a housemate.

The first Big Brother contestant with Tourettes was Pete Bennett back in 2006 and he went on to win.…

One of my most frequent tics at the moment is “Dog” and its variants “Dog food” and “Dogging” – they’re occurring pretty much constantly.

This evening I was on a bendy bus and a woman got on with her partner and their dog.…

This evening I listened to some more of the recording I made when I was on my own a week ago.

One of the very few interactions was with a man I bumped into on the street when I’d popped out to get some food.…