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Twitch and shout : a touretter's tale / Lowell Handler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Handler, Lowell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourette syndrome.
- Tourette syndrome--Popular works.
- Handler, Lowell.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With a new afterword by Dr. Neal R. Swerdlow of the Tourette Syndrome AssociationLowell Handler, who has Tourette's syndrome, sets out on a journey through less than savory parts of America. From a transvestite bar in Tampa to a flophouse in New Orleans, he meets people who, like himself, don't conform to the standards of conventional society. With a keen eye for detail and an acute sense of humor, this memoir captures the unforgettable life of a Touretter.
- Contents:
- Hitting the road
- Talk isn't cheap
- Diagnosis
- Drugs and orphan drugs
- Life and leukemia
- Jet set Tourette
- Pot and Prozac love
- Susanna and marriage
- Twitch and shout
- A second chance at life
- Tourette culture
- Crazy and proud.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9658-6
- OCLC:
- 476096632
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