ASPERGERS. WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE?

<p></p><p><strong>                                Mike has the <em>best stories</em>! </strong></p><p><strong>                                 You should write a book!</strong></p><p>I heard this more times than I can count. I kept thinking to myself I do have good stories but who wants to read another cop book?</p><p></p><p>Then I was diagnosed with <strong>Asperger syndrome</strong> and realized - <em>I had a story to tell</em> - something different...something special!</p><p></p><p>The stories people found interesting and unique were not ordinary cop stories but <em>cop stories with a twist!</em> Not the adventures of your everyday cop but one with <em>rare neurological wiring</em>!</p><p></p><p>I started to write and with the help of the eidetic memory that comes with the Asperger package I soon had the makings of four books. And when I looked at the two books about my adventures as a uniformed cop and the two books of adventures as a detective; I needed a fifth!</p><p></p><p>I needed a prequel to the police department. A foundational book if you will about life with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome that eventually led me to the police department and beyond!</p><p></p><p><strong>This is that book:</strong> The first in a series detailing my <em>unique adventures trials and triumphs</em> from childhood in a crowded SW Philly <em>row-home-city-state</em> populated by the apex of the Boom - when grade school classes strained at the seams with 100 children per class and city busses tottered under the weight of high school students packed to the doors - set in the most interesting times of the last century: the '60s and '70s!</p><p></p><p>This book starts in the crib and flows to the steps of the Philadelphia Police Academy where the adventure matures and continues with those best stories - <em>authentic stories</em> - straight from heart of Philly.</p>