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.…

We’re on the brink of disaster. My team have been closely monitoring imagination levels and they’re dropping at an alarming rate. When that happens, we’re all at risk from the deadly dull-wave, which can sweep over the whole world at any moment.…

I’ve just watched a wicked film with Leftwing Idiot and Poppy called Big River Man. It documents Martin Strel’s 3,375 mile endurance swim up the Amazon. He’s not a natural athlete or a typical hero though what he achieves is incredible.…

I’ve just got a new blanket which is helping me get to sleep more quickly. It’s weighted and goes on top of my duvet.

A weighted blanket applies ‘deep pressure’ and is supposed to have a calming effect. It also provides some resistance to my tics without being too restrictive.…

I filmed an emergency broadcast this afternoon warning people about an impending dull-wave of greyness that’s about to sweep the world. The aim of the video is to get new superheroes (5-16 years old) to join me in the fight against this threat.…

I share an office with two colleagues who, on the whole, barely seem to notice my tics. However, today one of them had to move to the room next door because my tics were too distracting. She was totalling a series of numbers and was quietly counting out loud.…

Fat Sister phoned just now and said, “You know when you had those two black eyes?” I was a bit puzzled because this was months ago, but I said yes. She went on, “It would seem from what I’ve learnt today that I might have missed, in my own sister, a very obvious sign of a Basilar skull fracture.”…

Leftwing Idiot and I were in a shop run by a mental health charity this afternoon. While Leftwing Idiot was paying I waited outside. When he came out he was smiling, obviously amused by something. He explained that the man serving him had asked, in a friendly way, if I had Tourettes.…