As I walked back from lunch, squawking and moving as strangely as ever, a man working nearby struck up a conversation with me. He didn’t mention Tourettes or seem to notice my odd behaviour – he was too busy flirting with me and asking for my number.…

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’.…

I often come across comments about Tourettes online like:

“Why do people with Tourettes Syndrome say only bad things?”

or,

“Why don’t you get any cases of nice Tourettes?”

Well, my newest tic clearly shows that Tourettes can be nice: I’ve just started ticcing “I love you.”…

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.…

While I was on a train this afternoon I started looking at Twitter on my phone. Out of interest I did a search for ‘Tourettes’ and found that someone had just tweeted about a woman shouting ‘Biscuit’ and ‘Happy Christmas’ on a train.…

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.

There’s a basketball court in the middle of the housing estate where my office is, and as usual when I left work tonight a group of children were playing there. As I passed them on the way to my cab, their cheerful chattering stopped and they started mimicking the noise I was making.…

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.…