Response to Sedaris

I'm not really sure how to respond to this story. When I first read it I felt bad for the narrator because everyone was kind of ganging up on him and teasing him for all these things he felt obligated to do and no one really tried to help him. Everyone just wanted him to stop and that's all that concerned them. I then started thinking that he just had OCD and no one was realizing it but I'm not really sure. I thought OCD because I know people with it have to do certain things and if it isn't done right they need to start all over like he would have to on the ride home. I felt bad when his dad slammed on the breaks in the car so he would smash his nose on the windshield but then he said he liked the pain so from that point on I didn't know how to take the story. I don't know how to react to it. It left me kind of confused and wanting to read more. I didn't really like the end because he got rid of all the of things that made him unique and that bothered me. I like the character better when he was doing weird things to keep himself sane rather than conforming to something like smoking to do it.