Look me in the eye
Subtitle: my life with Asperger's
By: John Elder Robison
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780307396181
Subjects: Mental health; Asperger's syndrome; Patients; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: "Includes a new postscript from the author and a reading group guide"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295).
Table of contents: title: A little misfit; title: A permanent playmate; title: Empathy; title: A trickster is born; title: I find a Porsche; title: The nightmare years; title: Assembly required; title: The dogs begin to fear me; title: I drop out of high school; title: Collecting the trash; title: The flaming washtub; title: I'm in prison with the band; title: The big time; title: The first smoking guitar; title: The ferry to Detroit; title: One with the machine; title: Rock and roll all night; title: A real job; title: A visit from management; title: Logic vs. small talk; title: Being young executives; title: Becoming normal; title: I get a bear cub; title: A diagnosis at forty; title: Montagoonians; title: Units one through three; title: Married life; title: Winning at basketball; title: My life as a train.