Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion
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My name is Amy Wilensky, and I’m the author of a new book about TS and OCD. I’d love to get feedback from any of you who may have read it — you are my main desired audience! I’d also like to become an active participant in the site and look forward to sharing questions and concerns with all of you. My e-mail is Aswilen…@aol.com. Hope to hear from you soon! Thanks…
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Hi, Amy ! I’m not reading or posting much anymore, but I wanted to say I’m glad you’ve decided to post, and to let others here know that, yep, it’s really you !! (There has been some concern about identities here.) Take care, BB2 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Aswilensky wrote: > My name is Amy Wilensky, and I’m the author of a new book about TS and OCD. > I’d love to get feedback from any of you who may have read it — you are my > main desired audience! I’d also like to become an active participant in the > site and look forward to sharing questions and concerns with all of you. My > e-mail is Aswilen…@aol.com. Hope to hear from you soon! Thanks…
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>My name is Amy Wilensky, and I’m the author of a new book about TS and OCD. >I’d love to get feedback from any of you who may have read it — you are my >main desired audience!
Dear Amy — I read your book several weeks ago, and thought it was excellent. Your writing is incredibly expressive. Your portrayal was moving and touching. As a TS sufferer for 55 years, I could certainly relate to what you went through. You were lucky, though, in that you had good friends who stuck by you through it all. I also found it interesting that your father was finally diagnosed with OCD. Although my mother never went for any such testing (she’s now 89 and has Alzheimer’s, so it’s too late for that), I think she also had OCD. At least she was extremely compulsive in many ways. I don’t believe I have OCD, but I have ADD, for what it’s worth. As you, I had a severe case of strep throat about two years before the onset of the symptoms. > I’d also like to become an active participant in the site
I hope you find it interesting and continue. After the first few weeks, I sort of dropped out because I found that too many messages that should have been sent privately were posted to the whole newsgroup. It took forever to comb through them to find something worthwhile, and I just didn’t have the patience to read things like "Gee, wasn’t that fun?" "Yes, we sure had a great time." "Yes, I agree." etc., etc. as well as reading fights between people. This NG can be very valuable and educational. I hope you find it so, and I hope you’ll continue writing. You have a great gift! Bobbie
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jai2u <r.kelly…@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:3833BA08.198AA2AF@worldnet.att.net… > Sangazure1 wrote: > > >My name is Amy Wilensky, and I’m the author of a new book about TS and OCD. > > >I’d love to get feedback from any of you who may have read it — you are my > > >main desired audience! > WARNING: This is long AND off topic!!!!!! (except for note to Amy at the > end!!!) > I agree the newsgroup has changed in the past few weeks, but while I > don’t miss the really "nasty" arguments, I do miss the fun parts
Jai, just a note from someone who has been here for a few years and has chosen to be quiet for a while. This too will pass. There is too much quick wit, intelligence and general love of life here for us to stay On Topic for too long. This group ebbs and flows, waxes and wanes (gee where have we heard that before). A few years ago, when I first started here, I too complained about the rambling OT posts……until they left for a while and I found myself wishing they were back. They always come back! There are a number of people who are gone right now. As lives calm, and discussion subjects change, people return. I have never met anyone either, though we have discovered a few "Believe It Or Not" connections. Someday I hope to meet many of these folks. ……. Perhaps when there are national conventions that DO NOT take place when my kiddos are in school. Just an off topic note: The last towel bar that Em ripped off the bathroom wall has brought great benefits. If we get our contractor back in here just to repair the wall and remount the towel bar (she doesn’t rip them off walls anymore) then we might as well install the wood floors in the bedroom and library we’ve been talking about, and if he redoes the floor in the library then the wall and the bookcases on the balcony should be replaced first, and if we are putting that money into those rooms then they have to be painted, get new shades in the bedroom, more bookcases, an extra computer desk, etc. See, Em does always say that there are unrealized benefits to having TS! still inventing, (and picking out flooring!) K.C.
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>> I agree the newsgroup has changed in the past few weeks, but while I >> don’t miss the really "nasty" arguments, I do miss the fun parts >Jai, just a note from someone who has been here for a few years and has >chosen to be quiet for a while. >This too will pass.
As usual, didn’t find Jai’s post on my AOL reader, but found it on Deja. Jai, you feel about the group the way I did/do. K.C. is right, it will change, think of the sea and it’s tides. You very well and succinctly put into words the ability this group has to change the perception of what we all deal with, a perception that I am so grateful for. If I had gone the path of least resistence, (conceptulization wise, emotionally, etc.), I would shudder to think were I or my son would be, but not in a brighter place that’s for sure. My family too is longing of the "group" I have, and wish that they had this type of connection for *anything*, let alone for TS….it is gold to me,… Jai.. sometimes it just doesn’t shine as brighthly. As far as Amy, hello, heard great things about you… You will find that in almost every poster here lies a book waiting to get published, this group has both inspired me in my writing, and put me in humble admiration for the wealth of writing skills in those who visit. I have been told to write a book, but when grouped with those who come here…those who post in pain, … those who post in revelation, or growth, and those who just post from their heart as if it was suspended just beyond my computer monitor… I lose my confidence… which is O.K. because I gain so much more, more of what I need at this moment, more than I need to publish a book. In addition to wanting to read your book, I want to read KAT’s and Jo’s, and Ellen’s and K.C.’s, and Fangbasher’s, and Pat’s, and Mary’s and Pam’s, and Haggis’s, and Pieter’s, and Jai’s, and Barb’s, and BB2’s, and Shooshie’s, Tom’s, and White Scut’s, and Alex’s, and Dominique’s, and Bob’s, and Gary’s, and Leslies, and Derek’s, Barticus, and Chaim/Faye, and Theresa, and Chuck, and Hoppin’Mommy and God.. I never should have started this because there is about a 1000 other’s…. who if I kept typing would make this the longest ever on AST – an editors’s nightmare I’m sure. Marietta "When nothing is sure, everything is possible." -Margaret Drabble "The superior person knows the inferiority of such a thought" ~MVB ‘99 AST visitor and contributor since -1996
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Aswilensky <aswilen…@aol.com> wrote in message
news:19991116000254.15121.00001631@ng-fn1.aol.com… > My name is Amy Wilensky, and I’m the author of a new book about TS and OCD. > I’d love to get feedback from any of you who may have read it — you are my > main desired audience! I’d also like to become an active participant in the > site and look forward to sharing questions and concerns with all of you. My > e-mail is Aswilen…@aol.com. Hope to hear from you soon! Thanks…
Nice to see you here, Amy. Stick around! 
KAT in CT
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Marietta wrote: <<>As usual, didn’t find Jai’s post on my AOL reader, but found
it on Deja. Same here–because aol no longer posts newsgroup posts longer than 5000 characters since about last June–at least for those using MACs. >Jai, you feel about the group the way I did/do. K.C. is right, it will >change, >think of the sea and it’s tides. You very well and succinctly put into >words >the ability this group has to change the perception of what we all deal >with, a >perception that I am so grateful for.
Marietta, I am in great admiration of the way you express your thoughts and ideas–always conjures up clear and vivid images…and says it so well.
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The venerable "inventing" <strac…@email.msn.com> bestowed upon alt.support.tourette on Thu, 18 Nov 1999 06:48:11 -0800 these words: >There is too much quick wit, intelligence and general love of life here for >us to stay On Topic for too long. This group ebbs and flows, waxes and >wanes (gee where have we heard that before). A few years ago, when I first >started here, I too complained about the rambling OT posts……until they >left for a while and I found myself wishing they were back. >They always come back!
The dynamics of a.s.t is like any newsgroup or any other sort of meeting place, only more so. There are good time and bad times. After fights, some people leave; the old timers usually come back. Some people don’t come back, and that is usually unfortunate. I have been part of running off some good people (not this year). When there’s someone you’re happy to be without, they eventually come back. Life is real. — RB | Randall Bart aa |/ Barti…@usa.spam.net Barti…@att.spam.net nr | Please reply without spam 1-818-985-3259 dt || a |/ DOT-HS-808-065 MSMSMSMSMSMSMS=6/28/107 I LOVE YOU l | Unisys A Series Wiz For Hire: l |/ http://users.aol.com/PanicYr00/RBResume.html
