I spend a fair bit of time involuntarily chatting to trees, mainly the those outside my bedroom window who, along with the lamp-post, the TV aerial and the moon, get a lot of attention from my tics. Today though they chatted to a different tree, an indoor tree, and a tree in a theatre – and to be more precise – a tree with a man in it performing to an enthralled audience.…

This morning my carer Anna pointed out that I’ve started ticcing the word ‘Salad’ quite regularly recently. This was making her laugh because it’s a much healthier alternative to ‘Biscuit’.

I’ve been ticcing ‘Biscuit’ for several years now and I say it so often it’s become part of who I am.…

At the end of last week I wrote Access to Tears, a post describing how, after a long and upsetting process, Access to Work (AtW – the scheme that provides support for working disabled people) had decided not to fund the cost of my support worker’s flights and accommodation for a work trip to Canada, and that this meant I wouldn’t be able to take up this paid work.…

As you may know, this year Touretteshero’s celebrating five years of humour and creativity and we kicked off at the beginning of January with a Birthday Survey. Our aim was to have at least 50 responses by the end of the month, but yesterday, when we closed the survey, we’d reached 230!…

Touretteshero and Captain Hotknives return to London’s Southbank Centre like a couple of fools this April. This is a show not to be missed. For more info and to book your ticket, click here.

Photo: Rachel Cherry for Unlimited

We’ve got a special one off performance of Backstage in Biscuit Land at the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden as part of their First Festival of solo performances. It’s on Sunday 22nd February and details can be found here.

Photo: Jonathan Birch

Everyone who’s ever met me knows I move about a lot! My motor tics (involuntary movements) are frequent, varied and for the most part very obvious. You can’t miss my constant chest banging, erratic head movements, wiggly spine, and my arms and legs that shoot out dramatically in all directions.…

If you happen to be in Canada and want a chance to hear Touretteshero co-founder Jess Thom talking about the value of creating a more inclusive society, you need to get yourself along to The Republic of Inclusion in Toronto on Sunday February 15, 1:00pm – 5:00pm.…

Leftwing Idiot just sent me this article. It’s the story of Biscuit the dog! Biscuit held the title of longest-serving resident at the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. His stay at the Home had been 22 times longer than the average.…

Earlier this week the Touretteshero Twitter account reached 8000 followers – a milestone.

I don’t normally focus much on numbers of followers, but I really do like counting random things, just to know how many random things there are! For example there are:

202 trefoil logos on my socks right now
172 triangles on Will’s bear jumper
and 83 leaves on the geranium

One reason I keep an eye on my Twitter followers is the strange sibling rivalry I have with @TicBot, our friendly Twitter-bot who automatically regularly tweets a selection of my 6236 tics.…