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From enough time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was not the same as other people. He was struggling to make eye contact or connect with other children, and by enough time he was an adolescent 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 - a form of autism - at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. On the way it also tells the storyplot of two brothers born eight years apart yet specialized in one another: the writer and his younger brother Chris, who grow up to be bestselling author Augusten Burroughs. This book is a rare fusion of inspiration, dark comedy and insight in to the workings of the human mind. For anyone who has struggled all his life to connect with other people, Robison proves to be a fantastic storyteller.
