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Be the first to add this to a list. It is through LaSalle's special friendship with Jack, a man full of wisdom despite his debilitating brain aneurysm, that LaSalle is finally able to love her son--and herself--again. With two stories to tell, Finding Ben is both a fascinating look at a mercurial disease and a powerful story of one mother's personal journey from frustration and resentment to love and acceptance.

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Finding Ben : a mother’s journey through the maze of Asperger’s/ Barbara Lasalle

Lists with This Book. Oct 05, Lisa Miller rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Anyone wanting to learn Asperger's Syndrome. It was hard for me to read this book. I think it is so because my son has Asperger's also. But I am glad I finished it. The mom in this book had a hard time loving and accepting her son for who he was. She did not see him only the problems then she met a man named Jack. Jack talked"about the beauty of the poetry of the in.

The poetry of the out. There is beauty in it. See the whole thing the whole person through the token of the turmoil. I almost did not finish this book because the mom made me mad because of her attiude toward her son but by the ed of the book I almost cried. Mar 17, Andria rated it it was amazing. Ben had no friends. But did he really need them? He had books and buses and libraries and city hall and the Los Angeles Times. He didn't have people, but he had things. Ben was fine the way he was. It was I who wasn't.

I need to remember to always look at my son like a self-contained human being with his own inner landscape. Who am I to try and make him like every other little boy out there? This book is painful t "Yes it was true: This book is painful to read at times because of Barbara LaSalle's brutal honestly about her own inner world- her frustration and anger and fear which she as any human will sometimes even takes out directly on her son.

Feb 19, Susan rated it it was ok. What a sad bookit broke my heart to think of how things were when this family was learning to live life with aspergers. I am so incredibly blessed to have the advantage of time and knowledge and thank god every day for the life my son is able to have.

But man was I depressed after I read this oneexhausting! Jan 18, Jenny rated it it was amazing. I loved this memoir. The author's wide open honesty about her feelings and her son, made it easy for me to finish in a couple days. Memoirs are like this for me.. Nov 09, Michele rated it it was amazing. I ingested this book in one sitting. To say it was a bit of bibliotherapy for me is to put it lightly. It was also a heaping dose of tough love. My son is 13 years old and was diagnosed on the Autism spectrum at the age of 6.

Though, I didn't have to endure a totally clueless society as did Ms LaSalle; I have felt the sting of a world that marches around with little colored ribbons attached to their lapels for any disease, syndrome, or affliction that they can physically see.

For those, they wil I ingested this book in one sitting. For those, they will adapt, reach out, and bend. But, when the challenge is one that pits you against others, however, by seeming rudeness, total social isolation ensues, brought on by your own self just as much as by others, yes, even me, his own mother. I have read countless books, articles and journals about Aspergers syndrome, always with "how do I get to the bottom of my son" in mind.

I thank Ms LaSalle for her stark, bold-faced honesty.

Tough love indeed is how I read the story. For this is the first one that I read as "not how to fix him but how to fix YOU, his mother. I can identify with her disappointments, her humiliations, especially with those public gastrointestinal upsets. I wish I could say that I did not, but I do. I can follow a string of therapies, interventions, and diets throughout his life where I felt I have relentlessly tried to "help him fit into his world.

Of course, we are lucky that we live in a world more advanced in knowledge than the one Ben grew up in and Ethan and I benefit everyday from those very therapies, interventions, and diets and will continue to benefit from them. Yet, I saw a glimmer of their story in myself where by constantly trying to change him, I am hurting him. Through their story, I hope I can live more in the present with my son and revel in his whole self. Thank you, Ben and thank you, Barbara, for sharing your story with me. Dec 26, Millie added it. I don't like memoirs of misery and did not put this aside to read in order to "have a good cry" but I did cry at the end, it was from relief and empathy with Barbara.

With a child on the ASD I was astonished how similar our emotional journies were, with all the incumbent feelings of guilt, frustration, self blame and anger with the child himself Unless you have a special needs child who remains undiagnised for so long, it is hard to imagine the self recriminations one goes through. I was very I don't like memoirs of misery and did not put this aside to read in order to "have a good cry" but I did cry at the end, it was from relief and empathy with Barbara. I was very moved by her journey and understood entirely the "tokens of turmoil" that weighed down her heart for so long.

Mrs Lesalle writes with power and total honesty and managed to tell her son's story without taking it over. My heart bled for Ben as he was so simliar to my own much loved highly intelligent son.

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The book was beautifully structured and I respected her even more for including Ben's voice as a very moving authentication of her account. I would recommend this book to any parent of an AS child or adult, you will hate her in places but I think only because at times we have hated ourselves for feeling so frustrated and powerless.

Thank you Barabra for writng the most real account of parenting an Asperger's child I have ever read. I send her, John, Ben, Stephen and David my love. This book was an incredibly honest portrayal of the author's feelings. It seems like your entire life revolves around the questions: It is even harder when others wonder, sometimes accusingly, why your child acts so different sometimes.

Anyway, the book was very well-written and very honest. I admire the This book was an incredibly honest portrayal of the author's feelings. I admire the fact that the author was willing to publish the reality of her shame and disgust. It's easy to be critical of that. My daughter was higher functioning and we had an incredible amount of support from various family members and our synagogue. This really was about her search and desperation to love and appreciate the beauty in her son.

And that was very touching and beautiful.

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