A PLAGUE OF TICS

This story is about a boy who goes through many different types of "tics". He has to touch his nose to everything and kiss everything in order to be satisfied in his mind. If he didn't kiss of touch something it would bother him very much until he did it. He had no parental support on his problems. When his teachers would talk to his mom about it, she would just offer the teacher a drink and make the teacher forget about his problems. His dad wasn't a very big help either. He would yell at him for doing things, and not get him any medical help. His problems got a lot worse over the years, through high school and into college. The thing that helped him stop being so compulsive was when he learned about smoking. Smoking got his mind of the things he had done all his life, and made him better in a way. I liked this story because it was interesting and at sometimes funny.