"The super-Touretter, then, is compelled to fight, as no one else is, simply to survive--to become an individual, and survive as one, in face of constant impulse. He may b faced, from earliest childhood, with extraordinary barriers to individuation, to becoming a real person. The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds--for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are, absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease. Health, health militant, is usually the victor."

 - The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat