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I noticed your post about this book
[Coincidentally, I finally read this book on the Edison Trait.
http://www.amazon.com/Dreamers-Disc...mp;s=books&qid=1276480947&sr=8-2
It's terrific and describes big chunks of my son ]

and wondered if you've found it to provide useful practical tools/strategies in dealing with your DS (who sounds like an older version of my DS right down to the mash potato loathing).

Sometimes I find books that describe DS pretty well - Mary Sheedy Kurchinka's Raising Your Spirited Child is an example - that gives insights but in the end didn't leave me with a lot of new ideas on managing some of his more challenging behaviours. Though spirited is definitely our favourite description of him now and it's nice to put the emphasis on the positive.