Look Me in the Eye
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Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
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.
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 | 9780307396181 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307396185 |
| Title | Look Me in the Eye |
| Author | John Elder Robison |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2008-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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