内容简介
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 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."