Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison

Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER
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 KIS to building a family of his own. It s a strange, sly, indelible account sometimes alien yet always deeply human.

Look Me in the Eye, Be Different, and Raising Cubby are all New York Times bestseller books by John Elder Robison, a world-renowned authority on life with autism. Robison is a neurodiversity scholar in residence at the College of William & Mary, as well as a member of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which creates the United States' Autism Action Plan. The government's research strategy for autism spectrum disorders. Robison lives with his family in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is a machine enthusiast and ardent photographer.

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ISBN 13	9780307395986
ISBN 10	0307395987
Title	Look Me in the Eye
Author	John Elder Robison
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2007-09-25
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Commended for Books for a Better Life (First Book) 2007
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