June Ahern's Reviews > Seismic Events: Growing up with Tourette's in a Makeshift Family During the Pop Culture Explosion of the 60s and 70s

I choose to read this book because my grandson was diagnosed with Tourette. I wanted to understand how my little guy would feel, see, hear and navigate the world of school and parents. When the author, Dennis Venturoni, didn't address what I wanted right away, frustration crept in, but his recollection of the living in the Bay Area, so familiar to me, kept me reading page after page. To put it simply, I really liked this book. The history, Venturoni's outlook.What a kid! To survive that dysfunctional family, oi! Of course, many of us had those dysfunctional family things, only at that time we didn't know as the author didn't. I was sad he wasn't diagnosed as a kid and had to suffer adult and the other kids cruelty as he jerked and twitched his way through school. Still! Dennis Venturoni found something good, something interesting, something to make life work. Wow! I see my grandson in a different light. He is that navigator too. Left-handed, a bit of a loner, but super friendly when he wants to be as he twitches and makes strange sounds. Anyway, finally Venturoni got to what I wanted and by then I had stayed up (too) late at night reading fun, great, sad, mad at some of his adults, - just so interesting. I highly recommend this book if you'd like to know about life in the Bay Area circa 1960-70s - very well recorded, author. His mother too, what a difficult life she had. A great work for Venturoni's family history. And, finally how to understand one withTourette. Thank you and congratulations Dennis Venturoni on your first book.