Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison

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It's a memoir of someone who has Asperger's.

Has anyone else read this? Thoughts?

Hi, I've read about half of it - then I ran out of reading period and had to stop.
I thought it was average - related to some of it, but not to most of it.
Did you like it?

yes, read it when i discovered WHY I WAS SO DIFFERENT. insightful......but....i'm not that into kiss or tractors.

I haven't read it yet, but my wife has and she talked about it non stop while she was in the midst of it. I wish I could remember some things about it, but it was quite a while ago, and we've both read several books since then.

She recommended it highly.

Get it. Read it!

The author is a WP member. (Shh!)

I thought it was interesting. Reminded me of myself in some ways, though the special interests are different, the traits and obsessions aren't.

~Kate

I read half of it at school once. I enjoyed what I read.

IMHO it's the best of the Aspie memoirs currently out there, I hand out copies to friends and family who aren't familiar with the condition.

I read it. I thought the author sounded a little rude in it such as saying his little brother was an accident but I figured that was from his childhood perspective, not as an adult. I figured stuff I read in there was from the past and from his past perspective. I used to think kids were accidents too if they were unplanned. That's how most parents describe their kids when they didn't plan on having them. They say unplanned or unexpected but they never say it was an accident.

I couldn't relate to lot of it because I wasn't him and not my life and he sounded textbook. I enjoyed it though and he explained how Milton Bradley went out of business. I was wondering what had happened to that company and why Hasbro took over their games and products such as Lite Brite. I think that was one of my favorite parts in the book.

The title alone was reason for me to read this book, as not looking people in the eye was my most frequently criticized childhood characteristic. (Over the years my gaze has traveled upward to look people in the upper lip, which seems to fool 'em.) Imagine my shock in learning there is a "syndrome" with a surname that explains who I am, when all I expected was a good read. My only regret is that I am not as brilliant and high-functioning as the author.