Martin Sturman

I mean, the best way I explain suppressing tics is if you breathe in and hold your breath, you naturally want to breathe out after a little while.

Rather than breathing out again...

Breathe in again and breathe in again.

So you're basically filling your lungs up more and more and more.

Eventually, you'll just go and breathe it all out.

That's how it feels with suppression tics.

That's how it feels for myself.

I think everyone's different, but I think that's the best way of explaining it.

Or if you're about to sneeze, try and hold your sneeze in.

It gets harder and harder and harder as you go on.

yeah in public it can be really bad so i mean i've had times previous employers who said i should go see a priest or when i was out for a cigarette she used to pretend she was ticking just basically taking the piss this is the bad side it's what people say so i've had people walk away from me on trains um i've had

funny looks i've had also luckily touch wood it's not happened but there's a i don't know if you saw in the news about the young lad who got turned away from british airways 13 year old lad shouted who had Tourette's they pre-warned him he had Tourette's or anything he shouted i've got a bomb in my bag they refused him to have um travel yeah that's just wrong though isn't it as i touch wood i've not had that happen to me

I think it happens more, so Copporelia, which is the one where you say something obscene, it's rare.

So it's only 10% of people with Tourette's have that.

That's weird.

Which is, I think, what the majority of people think Tourette's is.

Yeah.

Now, yes, I do worry when I get on a, I've got a lanyard, which says I've got Tourette's, like, you know, sunflower lanyard you get.

So airports are a nightmare for myself.

So luckily, Knock Airport's lovely because it's as quiet as anything.