Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's, Paperback

Descriere

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.

Despre autor

John Elder Robison

scriitor american · n. 1957

John Elder Robison este un autor american care a scris în 2007 o autobiografie intitulată Look Me in the Eye, în care descrie viața sa cu sindromul Asperger nediagnosticat și abilități savante, precum și alte trei cărți. Robison a scris prima sa carte la vârsta de 49 de ani.