window.dotcom = window.dotcom || { cmd: [] }; window.dotcom.ads = window.dotcom.ads || { resolves: {enabled: [], getAdTag: []}, enabled: () => new Promise(r => window.dotcom.ads.resolves.enabled.push(r)), getAdTag: () => new Promise(r => window.dotcom.ads.resolves.getAdTag.push(r)) }; setTimeout(() => { if(window.dotcom.ads.resolves){ window.dotcom.ads.resolves.enabled.forEach(r => r(false)); window.dotcom.ads.resolves.getAdTag.forEach(r => r("")); window.dotcom.ads.enabled = () => new Promise(r => r(false)); window.dotcom.ads.getAdTag = () => new Promise(r => r("")); console.error("NGAS load timeout"); } }, 5000)
Skip to content

Schoolboy tells his Tourette's story in 2013

Tourette's syndrome is often characterised as outbursts of bad language.

But when eight-year-old Spencer Davies-Monk was diagnosed, his parents Richard and Hayley from Upper Heyford, near Bicester in Oxfordshire, learned the condition was far more complex.

They also had little help and , as BBC South's Peter Cooke found out in this report from 2013.

Now more than a decade on, Mr Davies-Monk, 20, said his condition was "just a part of me".

The Portsmouth student has been speaking to the BBC along with a woman from Bournemouth and a doctor from Reading.

You can find information and for issues raised in this story at BBC Action Line.

You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X, or Instagram.