Finding Ben : A Mother's Journey Through the Maze of Asperger's
 

Finding Ben : A Mother's Journey Through the Maze of Asperger's

by Barbara LaSalle

"Barbara LaSalle's new book . . . beautifully chronicles her own journey to understand her son with the encyclopedic mind and distressingly separate world."

--Washington Post

Born with a superanalytical mind, Ben could store information like a minicomputer. Yet beneath his gift for facts lay a great fear of change and social aloofness. Ben had Asperger's Syndrome --a... (read more)

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Lee Ann M
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I learned a lot more about Asperger's than I thought I already knew. After reading it, I found out we know someone with it, and it gave me a totally new outlook on things. Written like a memoir, not a textbook.

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