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that’s what mums say to try to make you feel better. It’s like when they praise things you’ve done that aren’t all that good, like a rubbish drawing or a wonky model.

QUESTION: HOW ANNOYING IS THAT?

ANSWER: VERY.

Me and Carter are best friends except when we’re not which is sometimes. We’ve been best friends since I started at primary school in Year 3. Carter makes unexpected movements and noises, some of them are rude noises. He can’t help it. He has something called Tourettes, which I am very interested in. I’ve watched all the documentaries about Tourettes, which Mum lets me do as long as I don’t repeat any of the rude words. I am mostly quite successful at this.

Sometimes I think that Carter is luckier than me because everyone knows he has Tourettes, which means he doesn’t get blamed for it. If I swear at school I get sent to the room with the drugs posters in and then Mum gets a snotty green letter home,

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