![]() ![]() ![]() Have you ever rubbed your feet on a carpet, then shocked someone? Multiply that by a thousand and you’ll get an idea of what it’s like to be me. ![]() But the thing is, I have probably a thousand times more electricity than you. They might if they knew my secret-the secret I’ve hidden for most of my life and the reason my mom and I keep having to move. As far as life stories go, no one’s called to buy the movie rights. In my case, Tourette’s just means I have a lot of tics, like I blink, gulp, make faces, stuff like that. You probably know that Tourette’s makes some of us swear a lot, which would have made my story more interesting, or maybe got it banned, but I don’t swear with my Tourette’s. My father died when I was eight, and my mother and I have moved around a lot since then. My name is Michael Vey, and I’m from a town you’ve never heard of-Meridian, Idaho. All I remember is that my autobiography was super lame. Yeah, some of the kids had done cool things, like one had gone skydiving another had been to Japan and one girl’s father was a plumber and she got to be in her dad’s TV commercial waving a plunger, so she’s kind of famous-but that’s about as cool as it got. Let’s face it, in fifth grade you’re still kind of waiting for life to begin. Berg thought our lives could be summed up on one page, or ![]() Berg, was teaching about autobiographies and had us each write our life story on a single page of lined paper. ![]()
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