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Introduction.; 1. A Parent's Heartache - Ever Present. Chicken Nugget No. 1. HFA or ASA, What's the Diff?; 2. What Do I Tell People about Autism? Chicken Nugget No. 2. Dealing with the Good Intentions of Others.; 3. IEPs and those Elusive Goals. Chicken Nugget No. 3. Autism and Gray.; 4. Charting Growth. Chicken Nugget No. 4. Living with Fear!; 5. Understanding Jon's Way of Understanding - Lost in Translation is not just a Title of a Movie. Chicken Nugget No. 5. Sometimes it's All Greek to Me!; 6. What to Take on Vacation. Chicken Nugget No. 6. On Perseveration? - Stop Beating that Dead Horse!; 7. What about Anger? Just because Your Child has a Disability, doesn't make You a Floor Mat. Chicken Nugget No. 7. I Love You, but We are not Connected at the Hip!; 8. Straight Talk for Parents - We Must be Like the Energizer Bunny, We Must Keep Going and Going...and... Chicken Nugget No. 8. Birthday Parties - So Simple, Yet So Impossible.; 9. An Interview with the School Counselor. Chicken Nugget No. 9. Is there a Lesson in these Socks?; 10. A Bully by any Other Name is still a Bully. Chicken Nugget No. 10. Parents and Sanity - 101.; 11. An Interview with an Autism Expert - Dr. B.J. Freeman. Chicken Nugget No. 11. Literally Speaking.; 12. Choosing Your Battles. Chicken Nugget No. 12. Get Off My Back! Please.; 13. An Interview with a Parent Expert - Emily Pearl Kingsley. Chicken Nugget No. 13. Stopping to Note the Successes.; 14. Planning for Our Own Demise - An Interview with an Attorney. Chicken Nugget No. 14. Changing My View.; 15. Resources Re-Mix. Chicken Nugget No. 15. We Must See Differently!; 16. Explaining Differences to Our Teens. Chicken Nugget No. 16. Thoughts on Normal.; 17. A Case for Empathy. Chicken Nugget No. 17. But Do I Have to Fix Him?; 18. The S-e-x Word Meets the A-u-t-i-s-m Word. Chicken Nugget No. 18. Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop...; 19. Charting Behaviours. Chicken Nugget No. 19. Three Steps Forward, One Step Back - Not the Latest Dance Craze.; 20. Family Members and Autism - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Chicken Nugget No. 20. Finding Hope at the Library.; 21. Autism and Religion. Chicken Nugget No. 21. Angels by My Side.; 22. Shadow Dancing. Chicken Nugget No. 22. Serendipity - The Sauce for Those Nuggets. Epilogue. Index.