Look Me in the Eye

by John Elder Robison

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“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.
  • ISBN10 1283996324
  • ISBN13 9781283996327
  • Publish Date 1 January 2007
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 12 May 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Broadway Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 222
  • Language English