| Description |
xiv, 302 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Author's note -- Foreword / by Augusten Burroughs -- Prologue -- A little misfit -- A permanent playmate -- Empathy -- A trickster is born -- I find a Porsche -- The nightmare years -- Assembly required -- The dogs begin to fear me -- I drop out of high school -- Collecting the trash -- The flaming washtub -- I'm in prison with the band -- The big time -- The first smoking guitar -- The ferry to Detroit -- One with the machine -- Rock and roll all night -- A real job -- A visit from management -- Logic vs. small talk -- Being young executives -- Becoming normal -- I get a bear cub -- A diagnosis at forty -- Montagoonians -- Units one through three -- Married life -- Winning at basketball -- My life as a train -- Postscript to the paperback edition. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
"Includes a new postscript from the author and a reading group guide"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295). |
| Subject |
Robison, John Elder -- Mental health.
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Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Asperger's syndrome -- Social aspects.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Burroughs, Augusten, author of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780307396181 |
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0307396185 |
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