Re: The Right Thing-Anita and Post

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Anita wrote <<My husband once asked me how he could

learn some of the social correctness (right things)

that NT's seem to know. " Is there a book? " he asked.

A few weeks later I was in the library and they were

selling books there for under US$1.00. I spotted a

copy of Post's Etiquette, all 800+ pages of it

and made the purchase. Theoretically the book

contains every manner and form of " the right thing "

and I gave the book to him. >>

Tim Page discussed this in his article Parallel Play

in the New Yorker.

<http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/20/070820fa_fact_page>

He found Post comforting and helpful for it

provided the rules in a clear fashion he could

understand. Post is a better choice than Miss

Manners; she can be snarky and I think that confuses

my AS. My husband is quite polite at home and on the

surface with his clients, but thinks most of thel

rules don't apply to him because he has no interest in

socializing.

40-something NT, married to recently dx'd AS for 20+

years.

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