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Dec
16

Alphabet Kidsis the first book to discuss every known, at this time, developmental, neurobiological, and psychological disorder.

It’s both easy to read and very informative. The introduction more than hooked me. It’s a wonderful read that stresses the parents journey as he attempts to learn about the spectrum.

Alphabet Kids are like snowflakes: It seems that no two are alike.

Thank you Robbie for acknowledging that.

The book covers “problems” in alphabetical order, and is an OCD’s delight, she says knowingly. The chapter begins with “terms used“, second is “sound familiar? or an individual story. (The one on page 299 is mandatory reading. Third is Did you know? Or great facts. Signs and Sypmptoms, cause, diagnosis,, treatment,prognosis, and finally sources and resources. Each section is informative and I believe very helpful.

Damn do I wish books like this had been around when I was younger. Or that any book on “problems” was written with the empathy and clarity Robbie Woliver does.

People are so damn quick to judge. Somebody said most parents will read this book simply because of ADD and ADHD. They are but two of many many disorders in the spectrum

I know parents–some incredible bloggers who are desperately searching for answers
href=”http://www.amazon.com/Alphabet-Kids-Developmental-Neurobiological-Psychological/dp/1843108801/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229465147&sr=1-1″>Alphabet Kidsis the first book to discuss every known, at this time, developmental, neurobiological, and psychological disorder.

It’s both easy to read and very informative. The introduction more than hooked me. It’s a wonderful read that stresses the parents journey as he attempts to learn about the spectrum.

Alphabet Kids are like snowflakes: It seems that no two are alike.

Thank you Robbie for acknowledging that.

The book covers “problems” in alphabetical order, and is an OCD’s delight, she says knowingly. The chapter begins with “terms used“, second is “sound familiar? or an individual story. (The one on page 299 is mandatory reading. Third is Did you know? Or great facts. Signs and Sypmptoms, cause, diagnosis,, treatment,prognosis, and finally sources and resources. Each section is informative and I believe very helpful.
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The story on page 299 wasn’t written by a sixteen year blogger who “got” NLD wrong. I’m not usually hurt when people get my wrong or are critical of my writing. In this case I should feel flattered as I channeled my inner sixteen year old to write that. Nowhere does it say that I’m sixteen. It says that I’m successful (yes) and a popular blogger–I would have disagreed with that but I looked at my stats for the first time since July and uh….I no longer live in New York.

Until two years ago I didn’t know what was wrong with me. Knowledge is power. It took several months to adjust and then I began trying to sell my apartment. Sometimes I think I sold the last one bedroom in Manhattan for a half decent price–maybe the last apartment. I moved to a new city by the ocean where it was in the 70′s today. I’m meeting with the contractor who is renovating my new house tomorrow and this isn’t going to be a horror story.

I try not to focus on what I could have been had I known earlier and to focus on the present. 95% of the time that works.

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Nov
15

Please give us Democrats who have been doing battle with the radical right a few more weeks to celebrate our decisive victory. I would love 2012 to be an election where both the Democrats and Republicans have candidates worthy of a presidential election.
I always thought that Hillary Clinton didn’t want to be senator and used it for a presidential bid. Maureen Dowd agrees with me. Unfortunately she used her seat at the expense of New Yorkers. I do think she would make a great Secretary of State or Supreme Court Justice.
Here’s Dick Cavett quoting “the wild wordsmith of Wasilla. Her quote is so over the top I didn’t dare put it in for fear of being accused of falling for a hoax. But if Bill O’Reilly defends Carl Cameron for leaking it who am I not to mention it. Cavett is an exceptional writer, and please read this for a great look at Sarah Palin who not only doesn’t know that Africa isn’t a country but defends this lack.

I very much support all the protests today is support of same-sex marriage. Here’s where I get in trouble with just about everybody as I’m not a big believer in marriage for anybody but it legalizes and simplifies too many things to enumerate. For some reason I have always felt this way even when I played the part of starry-eyed ingenue. A part I mastered and kept up for many years.

I have been meaning to write a post on how Lucia, my bff, and I were walking up Steinway Street in Astoria Queens many years ago. We passed a wedding dress shop that had the tackiest wedding dress in the window. We both wanted it.

Lucia and I had passed the girlfriend fight part of our friendship; we had passed the petty jealousy stage and others and were now into what we called “the old shoe” stage. We were comfortable with each other.

And so in 1985, years before we ever heard of same-sex marriage, two straight women decided the only way to resolve the wedding dress problem was to get married.

We told everybody. We planned the wedding. We did everything but actually have it. Recently I was watching The New Adventures of Old Christine Christine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) proposed to Barb (Wanda Sykes) to keep her from being deported to the Bahamas. They went through with it.

That’s the second thing I have seen on The New Adventures of…. I thought of first. The first being birthday month, which in recent years I have turned into birthday summer. (I have birthday month in the archives somewhere written long before this show was seen.)

Life’s unfair but I want credit so if I’m not around the blogosphere much, well I haven’t been this past year because selling my apartment was so nerve wracking. This year I won’t be because I’m actually writing a book I don’t want to share until it’s safely written and published.

Usually I tell my ideas as I used to think they were too quirky to steal. Oh have I learned and I’m not talking New Adventures….

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