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TV presenter Aidy Smith explains how his Tourette syndrome is his 'superpower'

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TV presenter Aidy Smith explains how his vocal and physical tics have helped rather than hindered him. It was Christmas eve and I was eight years old.

As I finished my letter for Santa, my wish wasn’t for presents. The envelope contained a note of desperation from a little boy who didn’t understand what he’d done to deserve being like this. “Please don’t give me presents, Santa.

All I need is to be normal.” Three weeks earlier, I had been on the train when a burst of anger exploded across the carriage. “Will someone shut that child up!” My mother began to scribble a note to explain I wasn’t being difficult and that the little noises I made were tics caused by a neurological condition that resulted in involuntary movements and vocalisation –

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