All I can handle-- I'm no Mother Teresa : a life raising three daughters with autism by Stagliano, Kim, McCarthy, Jenny, 1972- instant download

All I can handle-- I'm no Mother Teresa : a life raising three daughters with autism by Stagliano, Kim, McCarthy, Jenny, 1972- instant download

vi, 200 pages : 24 cm, 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, Includes bibliographical references (page 217), Foreword / Jenny McCarthy -- Introdyuction -- Well, how did I get here? -- Chinese food always leaves me hungry -- When did you first know? -- Sex time! -- Howard Stern every day -- Always on our toes -- Bella's birthday blues -- What does autism look like? -- A career takes root -- It's a small world, but a big hotel -- Now entering the age of autism -- The autism marriage: Soul mates or cell mates? -- A paper mitten on the giving tree -- New word: the Stagtastrophe -- The things we do for love -- The little green house -- The middle child -- Up, up and away -- Don't ask, don't tell -- Another night in the Holiday Inn express -- Does heroin feel this good? -- Dr. Wakefield and the anti-vaxxers [vaccinationists] -- Mother superior -- Beef: It's what's for breakfast, lunch and dinner -- You've got to fertilize the roses -- My turn