Martin Sturman

Never had any issues at school.

I mean, I noticed like randomly, I mean, I'd, I mean, one of my common tics is I'll have a random song just pop in my head and just sing it or a line.

Or someone will say a word and then that'll link randomly to a song.

So a lot of my tics are reactive.

Something will happen and then I'll just say it.

I'm not even realising it.

I think probably my first early tics were probably things like that.

I just thought I'm just singing along to a song or something or just a song has popped in my head and not even realised it.

Blinking was a common one, but again, didn't really think much of it.

And so I probably sort of started

early teens, I'd probably say, potentially.

Because it was nothing.

I didn't really think much of it and didn't really say much about it.

I mean, I'd be told to shut up a couple of times at school to, like, just stop talking or something like that.

Yeah, not even realising there was a tick or just blurting random things out and...

it's weird because i wasn't really thinking much of it no one thought much of it back then because i wasn't physically swearing or doing anything like that or you know a lot of people don't think about it and without that sort of thing back then but obviously now it's like oh okay that's not quite normal

So I was working a lot of call centres.

Worked at Aviva.

Absolutely loved customer service and call centres.

That's the sort of work I love doing and I would happily do that again.