What Max's Turtles All the Way Down Gets Right (& Wrong) About Latina Teens With OCD
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Aza Holmes (Isabela Merced) can’t stand her own thoughts about bacteria and germs anymore. Despite doing therapy for her diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the 16-year-old high schooler in Max’s new movie Turtles All The Way Down can’t help but go down endless thought-spirals about improbable infections and diseases that feel unbearingly real. Touching anything that might inadvertently infect her sets off thoughts of danger and a desperation to purge any infectious elements from...

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