Sometimes, I wonder if I don’t have Asperger’s, too. Like me, he believes that it’s all about him. He’s super smart, loves video games, fencing, movies, building with legos, and hanging around the house. My son is 15 and has Asperger’s Syndrome (high functioning Autism) and Crohn’s Disease, and is a constant lesson in patience, acceptance and managing expectations. We used to have a guinea pig, but the dog killed it. I have a “real” job, a truly supportive and understanding husband, two incredible kids, and a slightly neurotic dog. We lived 1/2 a block from a cemetery, but doesn’t everyone in N’awlins? We used to watch jazz funerals from our front porch. and a snowball over at Williams Snow Ball Stand. We made enough to buy a coupla roast beef po’boys at Comeaux’s on Hickory St. We could get six cars down the drive, two on the front lawn, and two on the street and we only charged $2 a car. My mother worked at Tulane University, six blocks from our house and when we were kids my brother and I parked cars in our driveway for the Saints games at Tulane Stadium. I attended University of New Orleans and have a BA in Fine Art. I grew up in the Riverbend, or Carrollton, for the old timers, but was a Quarter rat from the age of 11, taking 3 buses to go to art class on Burgundy Street at the Cabrini Doll Museum and NORD center. I’m from New Orleans, that’s N’awlins for those of you who speak the language. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
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