Don't Think About Monkeys. Extraordinary Stories Written by People with Tourette Syndrome
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (916 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1878267337 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The drama of living with a disability and the comedy of a Tourette syndrome conference show the range of a book the Oliver Sacks called "A fascinatingly varied book.". Don't Think About Monkeys is a remarkable collection of stories written by fourteen people who live with Tourette syndrome. Ranging from three teenagers learning to come to grips with teasing to adults encountering discrimination, the collection represents the incredible diversity of a disorder as diverse as life itself
Her regularly lectures on Tourette syndrome and disability issues. John S. He is the author of the novel Echolalia (Hope Press). Hilkevich is an educator who is completing graduate studies in Counseling Services. He is a start certified Emergency Medical Technician and Vice President of his of his township's rescue squad. He directs Environmental Experiences, a national-award winning adventure program. Adam Ward
This book explains the unexplainable. A Customer This book gives you a first-hand view to the complexities of this disorder. In reading through these stories, all those things that my child described were relayed in these pages. After reading this book, I finally found someone that described why our situation was so difficult. All those things that the doctors said fell into the "grey-area" were touched upon. "Don't Think About the Monkeys" provides you with the understandin. Very valuable, but needs a reissue and some revision I was given this book when I was young and first diagnosed--I can tell you, being a very bright child with a tic disorder in an image-obsessed culture like the one I grew up in is NOT fun, and you cling to anything that lets you know you're not crazy. This book helped with that. It let me know that things I had thought only I did or thought were done or thought by other people--I wasn't as bizarre as I thought I was. That was . Momkey's I purchased this book several years ago. Since then, I have had the opportunity to observe several other children-one 19 year old with tourette syndrome. This book is full of a varity of people with different forms of Tourette's. The chldren I have met also have different types of "twitches and tic's". This book shows that the media-or televisions shows that protray Tourette's, are totally overblown. Some people do indeed "twi
We have many medical accounts of Tourette syndrome, but far too few stories "from the inside," stories of what it is like, what it means, to live with Tourette syndrome, every day and minute of one's life; how others respond to it, and how, finally hopefully, one may come to terms with it. -- Oliver Sacks