McCracken Poston Jr

"Is hypergraphia - the compulsive need to write - a gift or a curse?"
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200705/quirky-minds-hypergraphia-river-words
To Alvin Ridley, it was a loving gift from his wife of thirty-one years. From the content of the writings, it seemed to be something Virginia enjoyed doing. It clearly helped that

From the seizure of the Chevy Van in 1984 to Virginia's 1997 death, Alvin regularly posted things like this on the front of the shuttered Zenith TV shop, on the inside of the glass facing out. While I've suspected that Virginia wrote many of his legal pleadings, or "emotions" as

From today's ABA Bar Journal: Lawyer's true-crime book explores how he defended a neurodivergent client charged with murder via @ABAJournal

"EMOTIONAL" SUPPORT - Years of civil litigation - some might say technically frivolous - kept Alvin and Virginia's hope for justice alive. Many included "Emotions" (motions) for a court to do this or that. This was supported by streams of correspondence to and from various

I enjoyed meeting many old and new friends at Ringgold's "Dolly Days" on Saturday - and thanks to Babs Bell at "A Fern & A Feather General Store", who sold fifty books!
Amazon, for the moment, is continuing its "limited time deal" on the book as well: https://www.amazon.com/Zenith-Man.../dp/0806542799

Can a person with autism fall in love? Of course, but like in any other relationship, there are challenges. As one of the few people to read all of Virginia's thirty-one-year journal, and with talking to Alvin for over the past twenty-six years, I can attest to a deep and abiding

Every autistic person is different, but some of the more common characteristics include:
- Difficulties with high-level language skills such as verbal reasoning, problem solving, making inferences and predictions;
- Problems with understanding another person’s point of view;
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Perseverative thoughts, also called "Looping", can happen in autism because a person is trying to manage stress, process information, or can't stop thinking about certain things. It is not conscious or on purpose. - http://www.autismawarenesscentre.com .This explains so much to me, looking

Bookstore managers in Southeast Coastal Georgia are telling me this Northwest Georgia story is doing well!

The great AJC reporter Jack Warner reported, "Ben McGaha, more commonly known as 'Salesman Sam,' a grungy, grey-bearded character who sells shoes and advertising from a bicycle and said he had become Ridley's advisor. 'Anything anybody tells me, I remember it,' he said, his eyes