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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's (Paperback)
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Short Description for Look Me in the EyeRobison delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of growing up with Asperger's at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes readers inside the head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as defective.
Full description- Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
- Published: 09 September 2008
- Format: Paperback 302 pages
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- Categories: Memoirs | Abnormal Psychology | Self, Ego, Identity, Personality
- ISBN 13: 9780307396181 ISBN 10: 0307396185
- Sales rank: 17,067
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Full description for Look Me in the Eye
"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.
