They are each fine, decent, and hard-working people. I recognize that their memories of the events described in this book are different than my own. Additionally, I would like to thank the real-life members of the family portrayed in this book for taking me into their home and accepting me as one of their own. I would also like to express my appreciation to my mother and father for, no matter how inadvertently, giving me such a memorable childhood. Thank you: Lawrence David, Suzanne Finnamore, Robert Rodi, Bret Easton Ellis, Jon Pepoon, Lee Lodes, Jeff Soares, Kevin Weidenbacher, Lynda Pearson, Lona Walburn, Lori Greenburg, John DePretis, and Sheila Cobb. Gratitude doesn't begin to describe it: Jennifer Enderlin, Christopher Schelling, John Murphy, Gregg Sullivan, Kim Cardascia, Michael Storrings, and everyone at St. But above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances. Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Suddenly, at age 12, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain.
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