I am not that surprising to me on how much I see myself in David Sedaris’s story since I have the same experience. In Sedaris’s “A Plague of Tics” story, it really gets my attention how he has OCD and no one knows about it as a child. He shows how he is able to cope with everyone putting him down and, vaguely, answer the questions they ask him. How he is able to look back and make all his events in life into something to laugh at is very impressive to me. It is not just this story, but all his other memoirs humor and capture a lot of his readers’ attention. The way he defends his family’s harsh behavior toward him, his moments in life cruel and touching. It is likely he deals with bullying but never mentions them in his childhood, which is very bold in my opinion. I cannot help but feel envious of his ability to tolerate the insults and his ability to be able to face his struggles. I can relate to all of Sedaris’s issues with habits, learning, disorders, and family.
I have…show more content… I believing that I will always be stupid and useless, I started cutting myself for a month. My mom walked in on me and called the police, which I don’t believe it did anything. I just stopped after a year, but then got insomnia. Thinking about it now, I feel like I’ve always had since middle school. Mom never believed me until she heard me banging my head on the wall at three in the morning. I started seeing a psychiatrist only for sleeping pills at first, but he then diagnosed me with depression. Mom doesn’t believe I ever and will ever have it since I have a roof, family, food, etc., but she still got me some antidepressant. After I was diagnosed with ADHD, it really set her to the limit after two years with getting nowhere and me taking all these pills. I felt the same, but I still wanted some help with all these disorders. Her solution is to drink tea and talk about
