Every day I tweet a new verbal tic on Twitter, and every day I end up spending far too long deciding which one to choose. Fortunately my mischievous friend @ticbot doesn’t suffer from the same indecision as me.
Trying to make my outburst specific to the day is always a lengthy task and it’s one Leftwing Idiot finds quite irritating whenever he’s with me when I’m choosing.…
For reasons best known to my unusual neurology, every time I hear my phone beep to tell me I’ve got a new message I automatically say, “Fuck a sheep!”
Having Tourettes is an unpredictable business, and tics come and go, getting better or worse over time.…
As if his life wasn’t biscuity enough already, a couple of days ago Leftwing Idiot went and bought hundreds of them.
The reason for this? Tomorrow we’re having a party to celebrate the publication of my book Welcome to Biscuit Land.…
As I was going to sleep last night I found myself thinking about TV – not the TV interview I’d done that morning with Sky News, nor anything I’d seen on TV during the evening.
No, this would be far too logical.…
A few weeks ago I got a tweet from Casey B saying:
‘Love the blog, and the whole TH package. It is a shame there is no audio of the lamppost tics. 🙂 Take care.’
@caseybcyberloss 16th September 2012
So the other evening, after successfully catching my most recent spontaneous musical outburst, Leftwing Idiot kept the recorder on so we could share this touching, if slightly one sided, conversation between myself and the lamp-post outside my window as I drifted off to sleep.…
Yesterday I went with Poppy to get my hair cut. We arrived early and as it was warm we decided to stop for a drink. There was a pub on a quiet side road where lots of people were outside enjoying a drink, many of them sitting on the narrow pavement or on the kerb.…
I went with Poppy to get my hair cut earlier. In the salon they had a selection of children’s board games which included the classic Operation.
Operation’s been around for years and involves removing plastic body parts from various holes in a sickly looking man.…
Fat Sister’s just reminded me about a funny encounter I had with one of her friends several years ago. I can’t remember what prompted her to mention it but it reminded me that however obvious my tics are, I still need to explain them to people I’m meeting for the first time.…
The second episode of Tourettes: Let Me Entertain You aired on BBC3 last night. It’s a three-part documentary, hosted by Reggie Yates, documenting the experiences and musical talents of six young people with Tourettes, one of whom is my friend Ruth.…
Two days ago something very sad happened – Twitter suspended our @TicBot account without warning and without explanation. You might think describing this as sad is a little melodramatic but our bot is unusual. According to a lot of people he makes Twitter a better and more interesting place.…
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