Ben Lynch-Wilson was diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome when he was just five. The tics it causes have resulted in him hitting himself so hard he's needed to go to A&E.
The schoolboy is now aged 10 and in his last year of primary school preparing to go to high school next term. During his school days, other children at school have sometimes made fun of Ben so he decided to write a letter to his classmates explaining what Tourette’s is and how it makes him feel.
When Ben’s teacher at St Iltyd’s Primary in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, finished reading the letter to his year six class all the children clapped. Ben said no one has made fun of him since.
