We were asked to read "A Plague of Tics" by David Sedaris and respond. I really don't have anything to say, which is shocking I know. The story is an account of a child's struggle with OCD. It is interesting and easy to read, but I don't know if I would consider it humor. It's sort of tragic, in that he is dealing with a serious problem and his teachers assume he is just a problem child and his mother uses his problem as a way of getting attention.
What I wasn't expecting was the author's voice, which we listened to in class. I read the article first and my interpretation of the voice was sort of sarcastic and comedic, but in class he had this mousy miserable monotone (holy M's Batman!) voice that made the story just sad!
The end of the story shows his resolution, smoking cigarettes. It's not so much a cure as a refocusing of his tics elsewhere.
I did notice at one point in the story his mother mentions that his father saves everything. Hoarding is a more complex form of OCD and this may show some heredity to the disorder that no one in the family is noticing.
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