first person narrative

In birding, there’s something called a “spark bird” — the bird that, when you first see it in the wild, truly gets you hooked on birding. But this was my spark moment, when I realized my tics were not “normal” and that I needed to hide them if I wanted to be normal. If my mom made any connection between that kid we saw on TV and me, she didn’t mention it, and my parents didn’t take…