I was at Leftwing Idiot’s sitting on the sofa, and he was on his computer. While he was working away he asked, “What are you going to remind me to do?” I ticced some possible answers:

“Give Terry Waite a bath.”…

Earlier today I was talking to King Russell. He was in his room and I was standing in the doorway. He beckoned to me and said, “Come here a second.” As soon as I was in the room he shut the door behind me and said, “You were jerking around far too close to the top of the stairs.”…

This morning, Fat Sister and King Russell went to our local registry office to declare formally their intent to marry, and set the date – 17th June.

When one of Fat Sister’s friends heard the news she made a joke about shouting out inappropriate things during the ceremony.…

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.…

Fat Sister normally shows no sign that she comes from a gene pool enriched by Tourettes except when she’s really excited. Then she claps and flaps uncontrollably, a bit like a performing seal.

She’s just let slip that she had to stop the car abruptly this evening because she’d got so excited by something on the radio that she needed to clap and flap.

Laura and I were watching a scary film and as usual my tics increased during the exciting bits. At one point, my arms bent, stretched and flapped about chaotically and finally I thumbed myself in the eye. Laura paused the film and said, “Let me see.…

Back in October I described how I’d injured my thumb with my chest-banging tic and how Fat Sister, who’s a doctor, had told me to go and get it x-rayed. I didn’t do it, mainly because I was worried about wasting the hospital’s time, and also because I was a bit embarrassed that I’d hurt myself in this way.…

I’ve just got home from Leftwing Idiot’s after watching a film with him and Poppy. We were all tired and my tics were making me move erratically and contort all over the place. Because of this, Leftwing Idiot offered to walk me home.…

I glanced up from my computer earlier to find Fat Sister pointing at a packet of biscuits on the living-room table and King Russell pointing at me. I was puzzled by this until Fat Sister said, “You just ticced ‘point to the biscuit’.”…