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

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


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

From the time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, and by the time he was a teenager his odd habits - an inclination to blurt out non-sequiturs, obsessively dismantle radios, or dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them) - had earned him the label 'social deviant'. It didn't help that his mother conversed with light fixtures and his father spent evenings pickling himself in sherry. Look Me in the Eye is his story of growing up with Asperger's syndrome at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. Along the way it also tells the story of two brothers born eight years apart yet devoted to each other: the author and his younger brother Chris - who would grow up to become bestselling author Augusten Burroughs. This book is a rare fusion of inspiration, dark comedy, and insight into the workings of the human mind. For someone who has struggled all his life to connect with other people, Robison proves to be an extraordinary storyteller - moving effortlessly from haunting descriptions of the teachers and adults who made him feel 'defective', to his savant-like abilities to visualise the operation of electronic circuits, to the tale of how he killed a huge water snake with a revolver on the patio of a rundown hotel on a rock n' roll tour with KISS. And after reading about how John puzzles over small talk, you'll never hear a simple 'How are you?' in quite the same way again.

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GOR010440579
9780091924683
0091924685
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's John Elder Robison
Occasion - État d'usage
Broché
Ebury Publishing
2008-02-07
304
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