![]() For someone who has struggled all his life to connect with other people, Robison proves to be an extraordinary storyteller. ![]() This book is a rare fusion of inspiration, dark comedy and insight into the workings of the human mind. 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. The book also describes the efforts of the original autism parents movement, led by Ruth Christ Sullivan, whose son, Joe, was one of the models for Dustin Hoffmans 'Rain Man.' Beginning in the. Look Me in the Eye is his story of growing up with Asperger's syndrome - a form of autism - at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. It didn't help that his mother conversed with light fixtures and his father spent evenings pickling himself in sherry. 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'. ![]() COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : From the time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. ![]()
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