As I was drifting off to sleep last night, my tics were having their regular chat with the lamp-post outside my window. But unusually, rather than telling it off, they were asking it for wisdom. This got me thinking about the lamp-post as a lifestyle guru.…

One of the mysterious things about Tourettes is why certain words or noises become vocal tics. Anything I’ve ever known can become a tic, even things I’m not consciously aware of have turned up – I had to google: Alan Hanson, marmoset and whether Keith Duffy was allergic to peanuts.…

It was World Book Day a couple of weeks ago and primary school children across the land dressed up as their favourite characters, to celebrate the power of stories. This got me thinking about the books I loved as a child, and the stories about disability and neurodivergence which I looked for but never found.…

Guest posts from the amazing creatives, supported by our Young Artist Development Programme (YADP), continue, and this week’s spotlight is on Beth Greenwood. Over to you Beth.

Most often, the type of art that inspires me isn’t displayed in galleries or in a physical place.…

It’s the Conservative Party conference this week and it’s been all over the news.

This afternoon Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a speech about ‘levelling up’. I’m not sure what this means for the country and I’m fairly sure Boris doesn’t either, but I do know what it means for my tics:

“Boris Johnson levelling up with stilts made of shit.”…

A little over a year ago the world changed overnight and for many disabled people this meant that the barriers we experience changed too.

For some, this meant new challenges and frustrations, while for others the switch to more online activities opened up new possibilities.…

A couple of years ago I was in Portland, Oregon performing at a festival. We were over there for a couple of weeks and had an incredible time. This was partly because of the place and the people, but also because cannabis is legal in Oregon.…

Last year I wrote about an approach to help manage challenging situations that I’d been introduced to – it had as its acronym: STOP. I created a drawing to go with it to help me and my support team remember it.…

While I was working on a post last night a stream of tics burst into life, so I decided to record them on my phone in case they were interesting. Here’s what emerged:

“I wish I was a duck-face, I wish I was a mule, I wish I was a Haribo bag of undecided yule.…

We’re a year into a global pandemic and it’s disrupted most people’s lives significantly. It’s been a period of sustained uncertainty, with the way our society works repeatedly and abruptly changing.

While this will have been tricky for most people there are some specific new challenges for people with tics, as guest blogger Serena touched on at the end of last year.…