"All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa" GIVEAWAY!

I never imagined I could read a book about autism and laugh, especially ones personal account. Kim wrote her first book All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa. It is forwarded by none other than the amazing Autism activist, Jenny McCarthy. I am excited to help promote her book on my blog about something we have become passionate about. Autism!

I have been anxiously waiting to blog about  Kim Stagliano, who I have met via face book. She is a fun loving and funny lady who has a gift of writing and looking back and finding the funny in all things. My worry is the turn off for many of you right away you can see that it is written by a woman with three beautiful girls with autism, however I encourage you to read her book. She is humorous beyond measure. I have an autographed copy for one lucky winner. All you have to do is comment on this post, or on FB if you are my friend on there.

You may be thinking, "why would I want to read a book about a mother with three girls with autism?" Because if you are reading this blog, you know ME. And if you know me you know of our son, who was recently diagnosed with autism. My wish is that for everyone in my life would take just a few moments out of their life to read up on the life of having a child with a disorder that is very complex, and young in its research. Children, and adult likewise, who have this really crappy disorder are so often misread. I am that mom, Kim is that mom, that many people stare at in the store and judge. "She needs to discipline that kid". "Man, that kid runs the show". "What a little spoiled brat". "She needs to get that boy under control". I have had those looks and it breaks every mothers heart who has a child with autism. Usually others are not aware that a child with odd, or disruptive, or even aggressive behavior is battling sensory issues, may be so over stimulated by the sights, sounds and toys they see everywhere, that they just can't help being loud. Let alone cry or scream out if they cannot speak.


Here is Kim's BIO: "Hi, I'm Kim Stagliano, wife, Mom, writer, tired. My husband and I have three gorgeous girls - who have autism. Kind of impossible, considering autism affects boys 4:1 over girls. Mark and I have learned that impossible is often inescapable though. My book is humorous look at a life that has been anything but ordinary or easy - and yet is full of laughter, joy and love. I promise, you won't need a Prozac to read it. :)"


About her book:
"How one woman raises three daughters with autism, loses one at Disney World, stays married, has sex, bakes gluten-free, goes broke, and keeps her sense of humor. "Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (remember her?)? Check. What to Expect When You’re Expecting? Check. I had a seven hundred dollar Bellini crib for God’s sake!"

...and so begins 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 amazing 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. Always outspoken, often touching, and sometimes heartbreaking, Kim Stagliano is a powerful new voice in comedic writing—her “Kimoir” (as she calls it) will be a must-read within the autism community and the literary world at large. 24 color photographs."

How can you receive her book autographed and free?
Post a comment to be entered in to a drawing to receive this autographed book. If anyone chooses to buy this book I also have a signed book plate to the first person to let me know they bought it. As we support our troops, those with cancer, please support those with special needs. If it hasn't impacted you yet, special needs will sometime in your life.
Thank you for taking time to read my blog, and to read about Kim and her new book. I hope that you are led to enter to win her book, and if you are not that lucky winner, that you will purchase her book in support of anyone you know who is battling autism. Like our little TJ.

You can find her book at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders.