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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307396181)
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xNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find." --from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs
Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)--had earned him the label "social deviant." It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself--and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It's a strange, sly, indelible account--sometimes alien yet always deeply human.
Author: John Elder Robison
ISBN-10: 0307396185
ISBN-13: 9780307396181
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.93h x 5.18w x 0.71d
Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 09/22/2008 pg. 63
"As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find." --from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs
Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)--had earned him the label "social deviant." It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself--and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It's a strange, sly, indelible account--sometimes alien yet always deeply human.
Author: John Elder Robison
ISBN-10: 0307396185
ISBN-13: 9780307396181
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.93h x 5.18w x 0.71d
Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 09/22/2008 pg. 63
By John Elder Robison
xJOHN ELDER ROBISON is the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye, Be Different and Raising Cubby. He lectures widely on autism and neurological differences, and is a member of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee of the US Dept. of Health and Human Services. John also serves on committees and review boards for the CDC and the National Institutes of Health. A machinery enthusiast and avid photographer, John lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his family, animals, and machines.
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