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100 1  Finch, David,|d1977-|4aut|1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/
       entity/E39PCjvPyphMvqvw6Rx4Y97Bvb 
245 14 The journal of best practices :|ba memoir of marriage, 
       asperger syndrome, and one man's quest to be a better 
       husband /|cDavid Finch. 
250    Unabridged ; Retail ed. 
260    [Old Saybrook, Ct.] :|bTantor Media, Inc.,|c℗2012. 
300    6 audio discs (7 hr.) :|bdigital ;|c4 3/4 in. 
336    spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 
337    audio|bs|2rdamedia 
338    audio disc|bsd|2rdacarrier 
500    Compact discs. 
500    Duration: 7:00:00. 
505 0  Do all that you can to be worthy of her love -- Be her 
       friend, first and always -- Use your words -- Get inside 
       her girl world and look around -- Just listen -- Laundry :
       better to fold and put away, than to take only what you 
       need from the dryer -- Go with the flow -- When necessary,
       redefine perfection -- Be loyal to your true stakeholders 
       -- Take notes -- Give Kristen time to shower without 
       crowding her -- Be present in moments with the kids -- 
       Parties are supposed to be fun -- The final best practice:
       Don't make everything a best practice. 
511 0  Read by the author. 
520    At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds 
       herself asking, What the ... is wrong with my husband?! In
       the author'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 his 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, he 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, he devotes himself to 
       improving his marriage with an endearing yet hilarious 
       zeal that involves excessive note-taking, performance 
       reviews, and most of all, this book: 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, he 
       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, this book 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. 
521    General adult. 
600 10 Finch, David,|d1977- 
600 10 Finch, David,|d1977-|xMarriage. 
600 17 Finch, David,|d1977-|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01913501 
650  0 Asperger's syndrome|xPatients|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Asperger's syndrome|xPatients|xFamily relationships
       |zUnited States. 
650  0 Husbands|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Fathers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Self-actualization (Psychology)|vCase studies. 
650  0 Marriage|vCase studies. 
650  0 Families|vCase studies. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.|xPersonal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Asperger's syndrome|xPatients.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01424574 
650  7 Asperger's syndrome|xPatients|xFamily relationships.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00818799 
650  7 Families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01728849 
650  7 Fathers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00921865 
650  7 Husbands.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00964412 
650  7 Marriage.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01010443 
650  7 Self-actualization (Psychology)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01111481 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155|1https://
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655  7 Audiobooks.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01726208 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 Case studies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423765 
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