Customer Reviews

Hi, I'm Adam: A Child's Book About Tourette Syndrome

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The book is written for a very young audience, but when my 27 year-old son read it he cried. He could remember feeling the same way, and even doing the same things. He had never talked to anyone about it, but really opened up after reading it. We had a hard time getting a diagnosis, so it was especially heartfelt for me to learn that we're not alone in this big thing.

Our entire Tourette group has passed this book around and it is very good. Even small children can understand the messages here. And, they are happy to find out a young child their age wrote it. Two adult Touretters also said they felt just that way, and never thought anyone else did.

WOW! You have no idea how good it feels seeing that some people actually appreciated my writings.. that's just awesome! Thanks so much for taking the time to understand how i felt (I was only 10) about having to live with Tourette's Syndrome. Thanks even more for reviewing my book.. wow. I'm glad to see I've been able to reach people and help them. I'm 20 now, and it's been 10 years since I wrote those books, but it was a genuine feeling of accomplishment and meaning when I read your reviews. Again, thank you very much, you just made my dad/week/year..

(It wouldn't let me post this without rating the book, so I gave it a middle-rating of 3, hope I don't affect anything with that)

This book is WONDERFUL! We are raising our 11 year old nephew who has Tourette's, along with several other things, and he really needed some help understanding Tourette's so that he could explain it to his peers. He's been picked on at school because of his tics and we wanted something that he could read and understand. This fit the bill! THANK YOU, ADAM! He's reading Adam and the Magic Marble now. He said its a little harder to read (he's a little behind in reading skills than most 11 y/o's) but its a good read. He took it to bed tonight to read more.

we bought this book for our eight year old son who has tourette syndrome hopping to help him understand that he is not alone. since receiving the book my son has not let the book out of his sight

it is a great book for this age group

Our son really connected with this book. He is 11. Adam the child in the book is 10. This really helped our son to connect with the character. Plus there is a section at the beginning of the book just for parents written by Adam's parents. This helped us to not feel so alone because of our reactions and feelings. Great buy.

I did not see the book since I had it sent to someone who was struggling with a child being diagnosed with Tourettte's. It seemed to be helpful.

Our son is 11 years old and was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at age 4. He read this book when he was about 8yrs old and was really drawn to it. We didn't understand at the time why. I mean, he has tics and he has some rage, also some OCD. But the other things mentioned in here did not seem to fit. Well now he is 2yrs older and having some difficulties we dusted off this book and read it again. It was like a light coming on. He could have written the book!
We had a great talk about it and so much has become clear for us. This book may not describe your child right now but if they have Tourettes I bet given time it will.
Also I want to stress how important it is to join a support group find others to share what you're going through and raise some money for a cure. I will be handing out copies of this book to all my child's teachers and ordering some for our support group. Thank you Adam!

I am SOOOO glad I just decided to read this before sharing it with my 7 year old, recently diagnosed son. There is no way I'd allow him to read this. It is too disturbing for a young, recently diagnosed child. While I do not discount Adam's feelings, I think it is too upsetting for younger children to hear about thoughts of wanting to die. Also too much reference to feeling "crazy". I am trying to convince my son he is wonderful and special. I understand that this is how Adam felt and likely how my son feels to some extent, but these concepts are for older children.

I will hold onto the book for when he is older and may share it with him then.

I love the insight from Adam, however, we decided not to share this with our six yr old because we did not want her to make excuses for tantrums or think that aggression was acceptable behavior.