Look me in the eye: my life with asperger's - john elder robison

Robison delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of growing up with Aspergers at a time when the diagnosis simply didnt exist.

A born storyteller, Robison takes readers inside the head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as defective.

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 Aspergers 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.

Its a strange, sly, indelible account--sometimes alien yet always deeply human.