Edition |
First Broadway Books edition. |
Description |
xiv, 302 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
"Includes a new postscript from the author and a reading group guide"--Page 4 of cover. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295). |
Summary |
Memoir of John Robison, whose odd behavior was explained when he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome when he was forty, and the change that made in his life. |
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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.--Publisher description. |
Contents |
Author's note -- Foreword / by Augusten Burroughs -- Prologue -- A little misfit -- A permanent playmate -- Empathy -- A trickster is born -- I find a Porsche -- The nightmare years -- Assembly required -- The dogs begin to fear me -- I drop out of high school -- Collecting the trash -- The flaming washtub -- I'm in prison with the band -- The big time -- The first smoking guitar -- The ferry to Detroit -- One with the machine -- Rock and roll all night -- A real job -- A visit from management -- Logic vs. small talk -- Being young executives -- Becoming normal -- I get a bear cub -- A diagnosis at forty -- Montagoonians -- Units one through three -- Married life -- Winning at basketball -- My life as a train -- Postscript to the paperback edition. |
Subject |
Robison, John Elder -- Mental health.
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Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Asperger's syndrome -- Social aspects.
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Robison, John Elder. (OCoLC)fst01670946
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Asperger's syndrome -- Patients.
(OCoLC)fst01424574
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Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01016339
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
Autobiography. (DNLM)D020493
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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Added Author |
Burroughs, Augusten, author of foreword.
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ISBN |
9780307396181 |
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0307396185 |
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