{"id":222,"date":"2011-11-26T19:31:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-11-26T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T03:33:00","slug":"take-your-special-needs-and-learn-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Take Your Special Needs and Learn to Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devin Murphy’s<\/a> amazing poetry slam<\/a> incorporating his very real Tourette’s tics into his performance on Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices<\/a>. Amazing!<\/p>\n

SPOILER WARNING
\nThe following gives away a minor twist about BLOOD ROCK, so if you haven’t read it, go read it and come back.<\/em>
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As Devin says, corprolalia<\/a>, which affects Dakota’s adopted daughter Cinnamon Frost, affects only ten to fifteen percent of Tourette’s Syndrome<\/a> patients in real life – and certainly many people have learned to fly with the Syndrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I make no apologies for Cinnamon’s fiction-friendly Tourettes; in the first draft it was “romanticized”, but during revision, even before editing, I did a lot of research and put a lot of thought into the presentation of her condition. Like many Tourette’s patients, she exhibits a variety of rather subtle symptoms that most characters in the novel never comment on or even notice; Dakota is not an omniscient narrator.<\/p>\n

However, literature IS a poor substitute for science: no matter how good a work of fiction, no matter how well researched, it’s a made up point of data, not as good as a real teen with Tourette’s doing poetry slam or a good review article on the subject. I encourage you to read more about Tourette’s from Wikipedia<\/a>, from the National Institutes of Health<\/a>, or the Tourette’s Syndrome Association<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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