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

New York Times Bestseller


â??As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.â?
â??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 habitsâ??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)â??had earned him the label â??social deviant.â? It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Aspergerâ??s syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himselfâ??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. Itâ??s a strange, sly, indelible accountâ??sometimes alien yet always deeply human.