Naked in School Tom s TroublesChapter 15
That afternoon, after Tom and Lynette had returned home, Tom told Angela what had happened to him in the Avery class. “Oh, Tom!” Angela exclaimed when he told her about how he had felt about the holding of hands and how the touching made him begin to have signs of anxiety. “But it wasn’t at all like the panic I used to get, Mom,” he assured her. “This was more of a feeling of ... discomfort ... anxiety, I guess. I was really uncomfortable at first, and as I tried to push that feeling away,...