A Plague of Tic

I enjoyed this article because the author was trying to make his condition into a somewhat "funny" manner. I felt bad for him because back then they didn't diagnose OCD like they do today. If he was in today's times he would have gotten help. His family seemed to all have some sort of problem, like his mother and father. I believe that the abuse and physical punish he went though because of this was not fair at all. People should have realized their was something wrong. I feel like him turning to cigarettes as a stimulus was surprising. Just from how he explained his life i didn't see him to become a smoker, but it's good that it ended up helping his condition.