Look Me in the Eye
Language: English
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: Sep 25, 2007
Words:
95499
Flesch:
90.52
DDC:
362.1968588320092
FAST Tags:
United States,
Families,
Asperger's syndrome--Patients,
Robison; John Elder,
Mental health,
Asperger's syndrome--Patients--Family relationships,
Burroughs; Augusten
LCC:
RC553.A88
LC Genre:
Book Details
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Description:
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.