Date: 01/13/16 06:12 am Title: You'll Be Fine
The way you write....it shows your research and efforts and how you weave them out to works of pricelessness. I love this and also the others oh so much! Thank you for writing!
Date: 02/19/13 10:10 pm Title: You'll Be Fine
Very interesting story. I also hope that this Bill will learn to live with his condition.
Date: 05/29/11 08:17 am Title: You'll Be Fine
You are simply the best in what you do: writing twins with different conditions & inabilitiers. Just brilliant, amazingly accurate, human and gentle, yet realistic way to handle these. The genres etc. of this fic were nothing I would normally read, but seeing you writing this, it was obvious that I'd jump into this with an excited smile. Fangirling much? Why yes I am, I admit it. :D
Do I remember right that you mentioned somewhere at some point to write about Tourette's? Or was it only my imagination? I think Tourette's in here was interesting choise and especially because it was not the most typical way to write it (you know the stereotypical tics?).
My heart was breakling for Bill. Not because of his Tourette's, but how he defined himself through it. It is so sad every singhle time - in real life, too.
I hope he went out with Felicia, because she seemed to be a very nice girl :)
Author's Response:
Aww you are so sweet! I always see you comment when I post something new and it makes me happy. I'm so flattered~
rnI don't recall having mentioned Tourette's. I have a master list of long fics I plan to write with different conditions/disorders (including schizophrenia, a seizure disorder, and this wonderful Tomcentric one where he's the one damaged), though. When I decided on Tourette's I'd been looking on Wiki for ideas, found echolalia, and found that it had three different parent conditions: Tourette's, schizophrenia, and autism. I didn't want the latter two because I'm writing a schizo story later and autism is something I'd like to cover in something else. So we have Tourette's. And stereotypical Tourette's is not the most common type of tic exhibited. Most people with Tourette's do not have the kind where they blurt out swearwords - that's extremely rare. And as always with my writing, I try to stay true to life. So I gave him more commonplace tics.
rnI myself was actually very sad writing the ending where Bill's screaming at Tom in how he defines himself by his condition.
rnIf it helps you any, I was considering adding an optional ending, one that could be read or not read but the story would be complete either way. (I ended up not adding it in, obviously.) And in it, Tom asked her out for Bill, without Bill's knowledge, and it cuts to her sitting down with Bill and kissing him on the cheek and telling him she'd love to. And Bill ended up stupefied and flustered and all kinds of elated and it was very sweet.
Date: 05/28/11 02:51 pm Title: You'll Be Fine
sad story, but beautifull....
Author's Response:
Thank you. :)
Date: 05/27/11 05:00 pm Title: You'll Be Fine
oh gosh, this is amazing. i had a feeling it was Tourette's; my sister and i both had it for a while, and it was weird to say the least. i love how you convey everything about the disease so clearly. it's such an amazing story. i adore your writing style. i'm adding you to my faves.
Author's Response:
Aww, thank you so much!
Date: 05/27/11 12:11 pm Title: You'll Be Fine
I was smart enough to read the end notes first and then read the story.. And I must say, the story was beautiful!! =)
Author's Response:
Good call, then. Thank you, btw.
Date: 05/27/11 11:10 am Title: You'll Be Fine
whole story very original and intersting, I like it a lot! poor Bill, such sickness must be horrible, especially for a young boy, who is still caring what others will think about him. just this Felicia girl was totaly not necessary....
Author's Response:
Well, he's not entirely young here; he's in high school. I'm not sure why you think Felicia was unnecessary, though, since she was a majority of the plot.
Date: 05/27/11 08:01 am Title: You'll Be Fine
Wow, this story blew me away! It was like I was inside their heads at times, which was a bit creepy. But it was such a sweet story, and who doesn't like a little twin fluff :D I had no idea there was a syndrome like this, I always thought it was something that was broken in the brain, you sure made me aware of this, and i'll go read more into this, cause this is really interesting! Thank you for this story! :D
Author's Response:
Tourette's is very specific, and there are other tic disorders that aren't Tourette's. Technically it is something "broken in the brain", though. :) Thank you, I'm glad you like it.
Date: 05/27/11 06:49 am Title: You'll Be Fine
My friends son has the same exact problem , you can say something to him and he repeats it under his breath and does the same with what he says , its sad :(
Author's Response:
I've seen delayed echolalia in autism in person, just as I was finishing writing this, actually. I found it more interesting than sad, but it was a very different scenario.