Shaper

This work is a cross-genre memoir that draws upon critical disability theory, literature, images and theoretical discourse in order to examine, express, and critically expand upon my experience of living within the confines of a body and mind conditioned by severe Tourette's Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This work is structured around intermittent descriptions of each of the nineteen tics that form the 'repertoire' of my condition. Interspersed between these nineteen descriptions are brief pieces of writing that span memoir, theoretical writing, and fiction. This work may be of interest to those seeking material on critical disability, illness and life writing, photography, autobiography and memoir, speculative fiction, and visual art.