Books, books, books

I think it would be absolutely amazing to write a book about Tourettes. I have no clue how I would go about it and how anyone would publish my ramblings (incredibly sorry for them by the way) but in the mean time, here is a list of books that are about Tourettes and that include main characters with Tourettes. I didn't actually know some of these existed, I'm definitely going to the ones I haven't read.

• Insignificant Events in a Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling- £5.41. Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. It’s hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven’s about to discover she can do it all, even without arms. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1454923458/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sout?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sout-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1454923458&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
• Don't Think About Monkeys by Adam Ward Seligman- £10.69. Don't Think About Monkeys is a remarkable collection of stories written by fourteen people who live with Tourette syndrome. Ranging from three teenagers learning to come to grips with teasing to adults encountering discrimination, the collection represents the incredible diversity of a disorder as diverse as life itself. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1878267337/ref=x_gr_w_bb_sout?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_sout_uk-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738
• Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry- £8.14. Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different. Only Calliope's neighbor, who is also the popular student body president, sees her as she truly is--an interesting person and a good friend. But is he brave enough to take their friendship public? As Calliope navigates school, she must also face her mother's new relationship and the fact that they might be moving-again-just as she starts to make friends and finally accept her differences. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1878267337/ref=x_gr_w_bb_sout?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_sout_uk-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738
• Adam and the Magic Marble by Adam and Carol Buehrens- £11.32. A fictional story for children about how three boys with disabilities, taunted by their peers, find the magical power to cure their disorders. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1878267302/ref=x_gr_w_bb_sout?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_sout_uk-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738
• Welcome To Biscuit Land: A Year in the Life of Touretteshero by Jessica Thom- £3.99. Meet Jess, aka Touretteshero. Jess has Tourettes Syndrome, which means that she makes sounds and movements over which she has no control. Jess swears, she's one of about 10% of people with Tourettes who do. She says biscuit a lot, about 16 times per minute (that's 6 million a year!), and then there are the sometimes life-threatening arm and leg tics...Jess's verbal tics are often truly surreal "Leisurewear Velociraptor Training Party!", "Capital letters talk to themselves at night" or "If all the hoofed animals could count there wouldn't be a banking crisis". Moving, funny, shocking, tender, and inspiring, Jess's words are courageous and optimistic in the face of the major challenges she faces. Welcome to Biscuit Land. I have actually read this book and I love it, it is funny and it's definitely meant to be. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Welcome-Biscuit-Land-Year-Touretteshero/dp/0285641271/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=touretteshero&qid=1599333200&s=books&sr=1-1 
• Jerk, California by Jonathon Friesen- £7.12. Sam sets out on a cross-country quest to learn the truth about his family and his inherited Tourette's Syndrome, along the way finding both love and acceptance. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142412031/ref=x_gr_e_friend_sout?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_e_friend_sout-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0142412031&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
• Passing For Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion by Amy S. Wilensky- £12.43. 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. 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 wondrously complex human mind, and, with subtlety and grace, challenges our notion of what it is to be “normal.” I've read this one too, thanks to the library and it's also really good. It's her life, that's what makes it interesting. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076790186X/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sout?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sout-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=076790186X&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2