"A Plague of Tics"

At first I thought that this was a sad story about a kid that has OCD and a first hand account of what it was like.  After reading the whole thing and talking about it in class I realized that it had more humor in it than I originally thought.  I think that it was very interesting because he was explaining exactly how many peppercorns he counted or how tightly the mayonnaise lid was on.  It just made me think about what has to be wrong with someone's head for them to obsess of this kind of stuff.  I watched and read thigns about OCD before but this was a little more personal because it was almost like the reader was in his head.  I was also surprised at how mean people were to him; I guess that is why I thought it was a sad story.  Like I have a hard time believing that people could not realize that he had something wrong with him and they could not just sympathize and let him lick the light switch or touch the mailbox.