Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion

A powerful and wise account of a woman’s lifelong struggle with Tourette’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder

“Affecting, gripping—no matter what form the reader’s own struggles for acceptance may have taken.”—Elle

I am crazy. But maybe I am not.

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...