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

By: Robison, John ElderMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Three Rivers Press, ©2008Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xiv, 302 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 9780307396181; 0307396185Subject(s): Robison, John Elder -- Mental health | Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Autobiographies. | Biography. LOC classification: RC553.A88 | R635 2008
Contents:
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
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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"Includes a new postscript from the author and a reading group guide"--Page 4 of cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295)

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

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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