{"id":1721,"date":"2012-11-16T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2012-11-16T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T13:00:04","slug":"new-book-chronicles-turbulent-teenage-years-with-tourette-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/new-book-chronicles-turbulent-teenage-years-with-tourette-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"New book chronicles turbulent teenage years with Tourette Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/njcts.org\/tsparents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/JesterBook1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"JesterBook\" src=\"https:\/\/njcts.org\/tsparents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/JesterBook1-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My book, &#8220;The Line, the Itch and the Rabbit Hole,&#8221; chronicles my experiences with Tourette Syndrome. I had my first tic at age 7 (a sniffling annoyance, dismissed as a &#8220;bad habit&#8221;) but wasn\u2019t diagnosed with TS until I was 23.<\/p>\n<p>My symptoms dried out through my early teenage years but worsened in my late teens after I spent a number of years experimenting with drugs and alcohol. After that, TS remained a constant in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t tell anyone around me about the diagnosis, not just because it\u2019s a heavily misunderstood illness and I didn\u2019t want to deal with any explanations, but also because I naturally like to keep myself to myself.<\/p>\n<p>With the publication of \u201cThe Line, the Itch and the Rabbit Hole,\u201d I finally have a means of relaying that information to people around me, and while I put off doing that, I would really like to communicate with fellow sufferers to learn how they dealt with the illness and the stigma attached to it.<\/p>\n<p>I also suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder, have spent numerous years addicted to drugs and alcohol (sober now) and spent some of my childhood in a psychiatric hospital after an &#8220;accidental suicide attempt.&#8221; All of\u00a0these things are explained in the book, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B009NQO2TW\/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_FIrNqb141CR08\" target=\"_blank\">available from Amazon for just a $0.99 download!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book, &#8220;The Line, the Itch and the Rabbit Hole,&#8221; chronicles my experiences with Tourette Syndrome. 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