I don’t reblog very often, but this honest, well-written essay about Tourrette Syndrome needs to be read!
From what I’ve learned, Tourette Syndrome and Autism share a lot of similarities. Real people have these syndromes or disorders or whatever. Awareness and acceptance start with knowledge.
His latest book is crap—in my mind anyway. Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest takes place in the near future, some years after everything stops. You know, everything: electronics, motors, hydraulics, solar power, indoor plumbing. Amenities, creature comforts. It all stops, but you never learn why. Witchcraft is my guess. As good a reason as anything else.
The cartoon cover should have been my clue, and it almost was. It drew an eye-roll, but then I read the back cover; they called it a dystopian story. I’m a sucker for dystopian. But here’s the thing, they actually portrayed a utopia. An agrarian society, bicycles as transport, homemade wine, bushels of weed, a community library. It all seemed pretty OK to me. But of course, there was the stupid car on the cover. And around that stupid car sat a stupid plot. Whatever. I gutted through the book, the whole way wondering why…
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I don’t think I’ve ever been reblogged before. Honored.
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My pleasure!
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And you’re right. I see lots of overlap in the two disorders. When I read autism blogs I often say ‘Hey, that’s me!’
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