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

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ldquoAs sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could findrdquo mdashfrom 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 habitsmdashan inclination to blurt out non sequiturs avoid eye contact dismantle radios and dig five-foot holes and stick his younger brother Augusten Burroughs in themmdashhad earned him the label ldquosocial deviantrdquo It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Aspergerrsquos syndrome That understanding transformed the way he saw himselfmdashand 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 Itrsquos a strange sly indelible accountmdashsometimes alien yet always deeply human.