Justice For Amy
Just over three years ago I wrote a post I should never have had to write. I knew as I typed each searingly sad word about the death of my fourteen-year-old friend Amy that it wasn’t right. Two days ago a jury agreed.…
Just over three years ago I wrote a post I should never have had to write. I knew as I typed each searingly sad word about the death of my fourteen-year-old friend Amy that it wasn’t right. Two days ago a jury agreed.…
Last year I wrote about Amy El-Keria who died sadly and unexpectedly in December. Amy was a young person with Tourettes who I’d met at a group meeting. She was found unconscious with a scarf around her neck in her room at a hospital where she was being assessed – she died the following day, aged just fourteen.…
The final post of any year feels like a big deal. But at the end of such a busy year this one feels particularly significant.
As the third year of Touretteshero comes to a close I feel incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved.…
Last week I wrote with huge sadness about the death Amy El-Keria.
This afternoon Ruth, Leftwing Idiot and I went to Amy’s Day. This was how her family had chosen to think of her funeral.
Initially Ruth and I had been worried about attending – we didn’t want our tics to disrupt the service and intrude on her family’s mourning.…
I’ve written many times about the importance of increasing people’s understanding of Tourettes and about my mission to ‘Change the world one tic at a time.’ But never before has this felt so important, and never before have I wished the world could’ve been changed more quickly.…
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