I have a joyful new tic: “Yay!” It’s usually followed by something random.

Here are a few examples:

“Yay! Sheepdogs.”

“Yay! Hadron Collider.”

“Yay! Lesbians.”

“Yay! Harlesden.”

“Yay! Ramadan.”

“Yay! Black forest gateau.”

“Yay! Yay!”

This evening Screechy met Squawky when I recorded Desert Island Tics with Screechy Badman, a radio show host who broadcasts on The Source FM.

We chatted about the effect of different music and sounds on my tics and I chose eight tracks to be cast away with.…

Newsnight anchorman Jeremy Paxman followed in the footsteps of Radio Four presenter Jim Naughtie tonight. I wrote about Naughtie’s slip of the tongue a while back, when instead of saying ‘Hunt’ he said ‘cunt’. Tonight, live on BBC 2, Paxman said ‘Cunts’ instead of ‘Cuts’.…

This afternoon I met up with some friends of Keir’s – Ash and his girlfriend Becca. Ash has Tourettes and before today he’d not met anyone else with the condition.

We had a great afternoon hanging out on the South Bank, talking about loads of things, including Tourettes.…

Early this morning my mum arrived at the lair to drop off something. Over breakfast Fat Sister, who’s getting married later this year, started discussing plans for the flooring in their new home. Despite being an architect our dad’s reluctant to get involved with this.…

This afternoon I went with Leftwing Idiot to a protest, organised by the group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). It took place outside the headquarters of ATOS, the company which is set to make a lot of money from the changes to disability benefits – they’ve been given the contract to re-assess everyone who gets Disability Living Allowance and to take it away from at least a quarter of them.…

On Friday I had my second appointment for Habit Reversal Therapy. During the session the therapist said he thought the muscle groups involved in my tics have got stuck with only two settings: relaxed (not in use at all), or maximum tension and ticcing.…

Leftwing Idiot and I headed to East London last night to meet Alice and her friends to see in the New Year. On our way, a middle-aged man sitting opposite us on the bus struck up a conversation about Tourettes. At one point he said, “You’re an attractive girl, if you can see through all the stuff.…

It’s the end of 2010 and the end of my first year as a blogger. I’ve been looking back and thinking about the key moments in my transformation from Tourettes sufferer into Touretteshero. Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a ‘Best of…’ review but I do want to reflect on some of the more significant developments of the year.…

Fat Sister was showing Leftwing Idiot a karaoke feature on our TV this evening. As an example she started to play the Afroman tune ‘Because I got high.’ Tourettes took over immediately and I started ticcing alternative lyrics. Some are funny but a couple are so shocking I wasn’t sure about writing them down.…