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The Journal Of Best Practices
David Finch
A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
Scribner
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
242 pages
ISBN: 1439189714
EAN: 9781439189719
Kindle: B004T4KRJM
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Non-Fiction Memoir
At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself
asking, What the @#!% is wrong with my husband?! In David
Finch's case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five
years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they
learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains
David's ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his
lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down in
social exchanges, and his clinical-strength inflexibility.
But it doesn't make him any easier to live with. Determined to change, David sets out to understand Asperger
syndrome and learn to be a better husband—no easy task for a
guy whose inability to express himself rivals his
two-year-old daughter's, who thinks his responsibility for
laundry extends no further than throwing things in (or at)
the hamper, and whose autism-spectrum condition makes seeing
his wife's point of view a near impossibility. Nevertheless, David devotes himself to improving his
marriage with an endearing yet hilarious zeal that involves
excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all,
the Journal of Best Practices: a collection of hundreds of
maxims and hard-won epiphanies that result from
self-reflection both comic and painful. They include “Don't
change the radio station when she's singing along,”
“Apologies do not count when you shout them,” and “Be her
friend, first and always.” Guided by the Journal of Best
Practices, David transforms himself over the course of two
years from the world's most trying husband to the husband
who tries the hardest, the husband he'd always meant to be. Filled with humor and surprising wisdom, The Journal of Best
Practices is a candid story of ruthless self-improvement, a
unique window into living with an autism-spectrum condition,
and proof that a true heart can conquer all.
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