By Josh Hanagarne
An inspiring tale of ways a Mormon child with Tourette’s stumbled on salvation in books and weight-lifting
Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he attempted. even supposing he wouldn’t formally be clinically determined with Tourette Syndrome till his freshman yr of highschool, Josh was once six years outdated and onstage in a college Thanksgiving play while he first all started displaying signs. by the point he was once twenty, the younger Mormon had reached his towering grownup peak of 6’7” when—while serving on a venture for the Church of Latter Day Saints—his Tourette’s tics escalated to nightmarish levels.
made up our minds to overcome his ailment, Josh underwent every thing from quack treatments to lethargy-inducing drug regimes to Botox injections that paralyzed his vocal cords and left him unvoiced for 3 years. Undeterred, Josh continued to marry and earn a level in Library technology. ultimately, an eccentric, autistic strongman—and former Air strength Tech Sergeant and shield at an Iraqi prison—taught Josh the best way to “throttle” his tics into submission via strength-training.
at the present time, Josh is a librarian ordinarily department of Salt Lake City’s public library and founding father of a favored web publication approximately books and weight lifting—and the proud father of four-year-old Max, who has already began to exhibit his personal indicators of Tourette’s.
The World’s most powerful Librarian illuminates the mysteries of this little-understood illness, in addition to the very diverse worlds of strongman education and glossy libraries. With humor and candor, this not going hero strains his trip to beat his disability— and navigate his wavering Mormon faith—to locate love and create a existence worthy residing.
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Concentrate your attention, sir, solely upon the ring. " was far in the future that evening when I told Jimmie that I was going to marry Rosalind after I graduated from Exeter. "You're crazy," he said. We went downstairs to the men's room with its tall marble urinals and large cubicles. I wondered what, if anything, he felt After all, men are not boys. Fortunately, our bodies still fitted perfectly together, as we promptly discovered inside one of the· cubicles, standing up, belly to belly, talking of girls and marriage and coming simultaneously.