Introduction to Marie Duke's book "Autism And Assholes"
Maybe
you’re reading this book because you’re autistic to one degree or another and
you do not like assholes!
Maybe
you’re reading this book because a family member of yours is raising a child
that has a physical disability, autism,
or both and you want to help or somehow begin to understand how they sometimes
may feel while raising this child.
Maybe
you’re reading this book because you’re a person with a child that was recently
diagnosed with some form of autism or disability or both.
Maybe
you thought you bought a book about raising donkeys and now you feel really
stupid! (This book will be of no help to you.
Just walk away.)
Or,
maybe you’re a mom, just like me, that’s been raising an autistic or otherwise
special needs child for quite some time and you realize that your child’s disability
is not the difficulty you face, but actually all the assholes you encounter
along the way. Maybe you’ll understand somehow that I am not an “asshole”
myself, but just a person willing to publicly blurt out some truths about how
it REALLY feels.
I like
to be truthful, I prefer to be blunt, and I love to laugh at pretty much
everything. This book is a combination of all of these. If you can’t handle a blunt comment, take a
joke, or laugh at yourself, you might want to put this book down and go back to your knitting
or needle point so you are not needlessly upset and tempted to show up at my
house with a pile of toilet paper and eggs.
I am not
writing to offend, nor worry if I do offend.
I am not writing to criticize or harm.
I am just writing truths and opinions about my own life, my own
experiences, and my own feelings concerning caring for my son. There are a lot of feelings and thoughts as a
mother of a disabled child that go un-expressed in the interest of preserving sanity,
keeping family peace, maintaining friendships, being allowed back into
department stores, or just plain staying out of jail! The basis of this book, although some will
undoubtedly believe it is to rant, is raw experience and feelings in real life
for real people dealing with something most people just do not understand. This is not an informative compilation about
the challenges of a specific disease or disability. This, however the reader
chooses to perceive it, is meant to unveil some truths about those challenges
that do bog down, hurt and cause discomfort and hardship.
Assholes
definitely qualify as the biggest challenge of them all! (giggle) You may luck out reading this book and find
you have nothing in common with anything I have said. You may however find that you also have such
“assholes” lurking in your midst; maybe even in your own family.
Can I
change the face of autism or disabilities with this book? No. No
again, and Hell no! Can you leave this
book lying around for the last ignorant person in your life to read after you’ve
left the room in hopes that they might STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE? Yes! I
believe so!
Perhaps
all that will come from any of my words is the mere understanding that you are
not alone. Perhaps I am writing this
text just to discover that fact myself!
Anyhow,
enough with the disclaimers, explanations and attempts at law suit
prevention. I will not spend the
duration of this book wasting my own thoughts and yours with polite innuendo
and socially comfortable terms. Right or
wrong, rude or polite, I hope you get a good laugh, an understanding cry, or at
the very least a good fart out of some of this!
The following is a true story, but the identities and
names have been left out to protect all the assholes.
Autism And Assholes by Marie Duke
Autism And Assholes by Marie Duke
