Quit It

Quit It is a 2002 novel by Marcia Byalick about a young girl living with Tourette syndrome (TS). It was her first novel for Delacorte Press. The book centers on Carrie, a seventh-grade girl who has just been diagnosed with TS. Targeted to early teens, Quit It explores Carrie's struggles to cope with TS while trying to fit in with her peers.^[1]

References

↑ Quit It. Tourette Syndrome Association. Retrieved on August 21, 2009.

External links

Sørensen, Bent. Tourette in Fiction: Lethem, Lefcourt, Hecht, Rubio, Byalick (PDF). Aalborg University, Denmark. Retrieved on August 21, 2009.

Tourette syndrome (F95.2, 307.23)

Main	Causes and origins History Sociological and cultural aspects Treatment

Terms	Coprolalia Copropraxia Echolalia Echophenomenon Echopraxia Palilalia PANDAS Sensory phenomena Tic Tic disorder Tourettism

Physicians	Jean-Martin Charcot Donald J. Cohen Georges Gilles de la Tourette Jean Marc Gaspard Itard James F. Leckman Arthur K. Shapiro

Organizations	Tourette Association of America Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada Tourettes Action Yale Child Study Center

Media	Front of the Class I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me John's Not Mad "Le Petit Tourette" Maze Motherless Brooklyn Quit It The Tic Code Tic Talk: Living with Tourette Syndrome

Notable people	Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Howard Ahmanson, Jr. Basshunter Pete Bennett Brad Cohen James Durbin Jim Eisenreich Tim Howard Samuel Johnson André Malraux Dash Mihok Tobias Picker Nick van Bloss Michael Wolff

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