I have never known someone that has had an issue with tics but this story does and a wonderful job at explaining to the reader what it is like dealing with tics. Basically, this boy in the story is burdend with tics his entire life and he struggles with it as a young boy. His parents do not support him and his teachers seem to offer little help. The same routine everyday is part of his daily life and he just can't find anyway to break the habbit. One day he is in the car and his day is driving and he gets the ich to put his nose up to the windshield. This is a bad idea because his dad pushes on the breaks and he flys into the windshield and gets a bloody nose. Most would think that the consequences in this situation would out weigh the positivies but that is not the case. The boy likes the feeling of pain, because it releases a sort of feeling that he never can get rid of. For the rest of his life he continues to cause pain to himself until college. In college he finds drinking and smoking and his tics started to retreat. The smoking is almost like a sort of medication for him. He continues to always find himself with a cigarette and constantly needs one to resist his need to twitch.
It is a shame that his parents did not help him out. I feel bad for the boy because this is such a difficult life to live when you are burdend with a disorder like this. Also, it is sad to see him resort to drugs and alchohol to eaze his pain of the tics. I did particuarly enjoy this story though because it provided me with a vivid understand of what someone goes through on a daily basis living with a condition like this. It must be so difficult and I respect anyone that has to live with it.
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