I’m hitting my chest very hard at the moment. Earlier, at Leftwing Idiot’s, he’d been holding my hands to stop me doing it, but then he’d needed the loo and was worried I’d hurt myself while he was out of the room.…

I’ve just started my Christmas shopping. I should leave it until closer to the end of the year, but as I’ve explained before, I enjoy choosing gifts for people and can’t resist starting early. So far I’ve bought presents for Leftwing Idiot and King Russell and I’m really pleased with what I’ve got them.…

Many of my tics are funny and random, but recently I’ve been saying some fairly nasty things most of which are about myself. For example: “I’m a horrible cunt,” “Shut up bitch,” “Poke out my eyes.”

I don’t feel particularly full of self-loathing or hatred but these negative tics do seem to get more forceful if I’m feeling miserable or frustrated.…

Tonight Living TV aired an old documentary about people with Tourettes talking about how the condition affected them at work. One of the people on the show was the comedian Noel Faulkner who owns the Comedy Café in London that Ruth and I have visited a few times.…

I’m not very well at the moment and have an annoying cough to deal with.

When I explain to children what ticcing feels like, I often use the sensation of coughing or sneezing as examples. At the moment coughing just feels like a separate, extra layer of irritation.…

Tonight I was out in town with Ruth and Catherine who both have Tourettes. At the first pub we went to we were ID’d, not to prove our ages but to prove we had Tourettes.

The bar manager approached us while we were waiting to be served and stood in front of us for a long time, staring at us.…

I’ve had a busy day travelling across the city to meet up with various friends. I had dinner by the river and went to Ollie and Karen’s post-wedding party. It’s been a fun day shared with lots of different people.

For a good part of it I was with Leftwing Idiot.…

I’m just about to head off to bed. Recently my tics have been interfering with my sleep in a massive way. Getting to sleep has always been a problem but my tics haven’t been repeatedly waking me up throughout the night in the way they are at the moment.…

I’ve just watched The Fog by John Carpenter with Leftwing Idiot. I don’t cope well with horrors of any sort because suspense and excitement tend to make my tics over react.

Despite the fact that he had me pretty comprehensively pinned down, Leftwing Idiot still stopped the film fifteen minutes in and said, “Seriously, are you going to be able to cope with this?”…

I went out for a meal this evening with a bunch of friends and when we’d finished eating I popped to the toilet. As I sat down I realised the cubicle had just been painted with red gloss paint. Seconds later I head-butted the wall.…