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I got ADND. I never knew it. :)@(:@:)LMAO.

These are great! I normally do not have time to post but this one compelled me to write. I do some public speaking to gifted parents in my community and would love permission to use some of these. I would of course keep your names confidential but thought it appropriate to ask first. Please let me know if I can share your creativity with other parents.

Thank you,
Tara

Feel free to share the signs and symptoms of E.G.A.D.S. compounded by B.O.R.E.D. so parents know what to look for and how to help!

Feel free to use Obfuscation Avoidant Syndrome/Disorder-- with or without aggressive tendendies.

Thanks guys - how about you Grinity?

Tara

My son gives permission for you to use his in any fair-use or non-profit context, but he says that if you are getting paid, he wants his cut.

Say what you want about anything I've said. I just hope we can all get treatment for the P.L.A.C.E.B.O. (that one's not mine, it's just my top pick)

Hyper-evolved "why" gene.

aculady, please let your son know that thankfully I do get paid a small honorarium and will certainly respect his wishes - but they were very clever and would only use them with his blessing.

Tara

He's glad you like them. (He'd be even happier if you were willing to pay him a token royalty to use them, but he's very pleased that you are respecting his wishes regarding not using them for commercial purposes without compensation.)

It isn't about you, BTW. He has always had a very clear idea that if someone is going to get paid, even in part, for work that he did, he should get paid for his share of it. He refused to enter the Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators contest when he was 7, even though he had entered and placed the two previous years, because he read the legalese on the entry form and realized that, if he won, he was signing away all his rights to his story and any derivative works, in exchange for a few books and bragging rights. I believe his words at the time were "What kind of people steal from little kids?"

So he has a long history of aggressively protecting his copyright...

ADND is free to a good home -- I think we need some serious publicity on this tragic condition. Immagine all the small (and large) children (in thier thirties) who could benefit from greater public understanding of these difficulties?

;P

-Mich