Passing for Normal, by American Book Report

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She felt as if no one understood her conditions or why she was the way she was and because it took her longer to accept herself for who she was, she could not have a full understanding of having Tourette's and OCD meant to her or anyone else. It was until she fully accepted her condition that she would be able to come to grips with it and learn how to live with it.

Wilensky associated drinking with a loss of control, but also realized that drinking would help lessen the tics, or at least make it seem like it. The OCD part of Wilensky connected her personal rules as a means for controlling the things her body did that she felt were negative. By drinking with friends, even if it felt good, she was breaking her own rules. She didn't feel like she could be normal like the other kids, because of her own self-designed rituals and obsessions, which completely consumed her life.

As with many individuals who have OCD and Tourette's, Wilensky managed to hide her problems with her need for suppressing her tics. Because of this, not everyone, including Wilensky's parents, knew about her medical issues early on.

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This is not uncommon. Wilensky had a complex relationship with her father and though she was taken to doctor after doctor, the tics she was experiencing were simply dismissed or ignored. Doctors promised that the tics would go away on their own in time. Wilensky was not diagnosed with Tourette's until she was 24-years-old and because of her refusal in accepting her condition, the fact that she was attempting to hide it and her friends and family members who also ignored the signs that something more serious was wrong, the writer did not learn to truly deal with her condition until adulthood, which is not uncommon among people with Tourette's….....

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