Amazon.com: Used and New: Asperger's and Girls

Amazon.com: Used and New: Asperger's and Girls:

Morgan found this book to try to help find answers to Brooklyn's mannerisms and behavior quirks that are conflicting with her ability to interact with others. The social aspect of her problems is the most important at this point, at least to me. I am not so worried about her milestones, learning processes or motor skills. She can do most things she sets her mind to. Talking to others and sharing in a positive manner, however, are examples of things she just can't grasp well enough to be consistent.

Hopefully this book would give us a better idea of how to identify a disorder like Asperger's. I don't believe we're going to find a definitive diagnosis this way, but I agree we will get a better idea of the symptoms and how to approach and hopefully nullify the symptoms of what's really going on. We do want to get to the root of the problem and take care of what's really affecting her behavior, but you don't find the roots by looking for them first. They're buried and hiding. Behavior issues are like blackberry bushes: you have to start at the end of a vine (obvious symptoms) and trace it back to the base (how the symptoms connect), then start digging out the roots (any medical or psychological foundations creating the symptoms).

We're not rich. We're not even financially secure. So we have to do this stuff on our own. I don't expect Medicaid to do everything for us. Nor do I expect the public welfare system to pay for all the research when I am perfectly capable of doing research myself. If all we do is take books like this, get the premises of our claims solid, and bring that to a professional to weed through and come to a plausible conclusion, we've saved time for the professional, which saves money for Medicaid, which saves money for the state and federal budgets. Isn't that how we can truly fix the medical industry? Maybe that's just me being optimistic, though.