Dr. Sacks offers the same empathy, lyrical insight, and contagious sense of wonder to these seven stories about neurological disorders that he brought to his best-selling books Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one amazing kid emerge as remarkably adaptable individuals, whose circumstances have not so much disabled them as ushered them into a different reality.
Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy).
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