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All I can handle -- I'm no Mother Teresa a life raising three daughters with autism

Kim Stagliano's electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family's journey raising three daughters with autism. In these stories, Stagliano has joined the ranks of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs with her ability to lay everything on the table--from family, friends, and enemies to base...

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Main Author: Stagliano, Kim.
Other Authors: McCarthy, Jenny, 1972-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2010.
Subjects:
Stagliano, Kim.
Autistic children > Family relationships > United States.
Mothers of children with disabilities > United States > Biography.
Mothers and daughters.
Summary: Kim Stagliano's electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family's journey raising three daughters with autism. In these stories, Stagliano has joined the ranks of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs with her ability to lay everything on the table--from family, friends, and enemies to basement floods to birthdays to (possible) heroin addictions--eviscerating and celebrating the absurd. From her love of Howard Stern to her increasing activism in the autism community and exhaustive search for treatments that will help her daughters, she covers it all.--From publisher description.
Physical Description: vi, 200 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]).
ISBN: 9781616084592 (pbk)
1616084596 (pbk)
Author Notes: Kim Stagliano is a nationally recognized advocate for people with autism who uses humor to educate. Although autism typically affects boys 4 to 1 over girls, Stagliano is in the unique position of having three daughters on the spectrum. She is managing editor of Age of Autism, the nations first daily web newspaper about the autism epidemic. She speaks at national autism conferences, and has appeared on Good Morning America, BC News, Fax News, in the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the National Catholic Register, and on blogs around the world. She lives in Connecticut with her family.
Jenny McCarthy is a world-renowned autism activist, mother, and best selling author.

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