false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175694354m/546169.jpg 546169 2 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 didn't understand and her body did things she couldn't control. While she excelled in school and led an otherwise "normal" life, she worried that beneath the surface she was a freak, that there was something irrevocably wrong with her.  Passing for Normal is Wilensky's emotionally charged account of her lifelong struggle with the often misunderstood disorders Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder.  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 others--compulsive, crazy, out of control--Amy 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<br>tragic and comic, broadly extends our understanding of the won-drously complex human mind, and, with subtlety and grace, challenges our notion of what it is to be "normal." 533439 5 7 2000 Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion total:70|5:11|4:23|3:30|2:6|1:0| 70 249 109 3 3 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 02 10:51:31 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 10:51:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Jan 18 09:45:29 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 09:46:03 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Aug 12 12:04:11 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 12:04:28 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 04:43:21 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 04:43:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 19 21:56:03 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 21:56:03 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 14 06:58:04 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:58:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 11:02:15 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 11:02:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 20 01:25:55 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 01:25:55 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 18 11:31:45 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 11:31:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 15:21:15 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 15:21:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 13 15:25:32 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:25:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 05 21:21:32 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 21:21:32 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Sep 03 17:56:38 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 17:56:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 03 16:18:50 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 16:18:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Aug 29 13:15:41 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 13:15:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 22 18:50:54 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 18:50:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 11 16:35:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 16:35:00 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 06 20:52:56 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 09:11:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 15:53:48 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 15:53:48 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Jul 26 17:54:21 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 17:54:24 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=546169