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"Extremely rare is the mother who doesn't worry about whether she is a good parent, and it is easy to become obsessed trying to do everything right for one's child. With all her worries when she gave birth to Benjamin, kindergarten teacher LaSalle was typical. She wanted to be a perfect mother to a perfect--read normal--child. But Ben was anything but normal. While LaSalle misguidedly persisted in trying to be the perfect mother, the real, imperfect Ben got lost in a blind alley of misdiagnosis, mistaken counsel, and, finally, imprisonment. It was 25 years before he was correctly diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism. Naming the disorder, however, didn't solve LaSalle's biggest problem. She still wanted Ben to be perfect (i.e., normal), and it was nearly another decade before she learned that he was perfect just as he was."--Booklist
All Ages
Adulthood (22+)
English
0071431942
Barbara LaSalle
2004 McGraw-Hill
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