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- Title: Passing for Normal
- Author : Amy S. Wilensky
- Release Date : January 10, 1999
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,Health, Mind & Body,Psychology,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2359 KB
Description
A powerful and wise account of a womanās lifelong struggle with Touretteās syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder
āAffecting, grippingāno matter what form the readerās own struggles for acceptance may have taken.āāElle
I am crazy. But maybe I am not.
For most of her life, these thoughts plagued Amy Wilensky as her mind lurched and veered in ways she didnāt understand and her body did things she couldnāt control. While she excelled in school and led an otherwise ānormalā life, she worried that beneath the surface she was a freak, that there was something irrevocably wrong with her.
A powerful witness to her own dysfunction, Wilensky describes the strain it bore on her relationships with the people she thought she knew best: her family, her friends, and herself. Confronting the labels we apply to ourselves and othersācompulsive, crazy, out of controlāAmy describes her symptoms, diagnosis, and her treatment with courage and a healthy dose of humor, gradually coming to terms with the absurdities of a life beset by irrational behavior. This compelling narrative, by turns tragic and comic, broadly extends our understanding of the wondrously complex human mind, and, with subtlety and grace, challenges our notion of what it is to be ānormal.ā
