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Author Robison, John Elder, author.

Title Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger's / John Elder Robison.

Publication Info. New York : Broadway Paperbacks, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  YA J-F ROB (PB)    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B ROBISON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B ROBISON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Young Adult  YA B ROBISON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Biographies  B ROBISON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  616.8588 ROBISON    Check Shelf
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.
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.
Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Asperger's syndrome -- Social aspects.
Robison, John Elder. (OCoLC)fst01670946
Asperger's syndrome -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst01424574
Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01016339
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiography. (DNLM)D020493
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Added Author Burroughs, Augusten, author of foreword.
ISBN 9780307396181
0307396185
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