Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger'sNEW 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

NEW 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 09/09/2008
ISBN: 9780307396181
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.93h x 5.18w x 0.71d

Review Citations: People Weekly 09/22/2008 pg. 63