**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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**"As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one
could find." --from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs
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Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other
people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an
inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle
radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten
Burroughs, in them)--had earned him the label "social deviant." It was
not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism
called Asperger's syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he
saw himself--and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a
moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from
developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own.
It's a strange, sly, indelible account--sometimes alien yet always
deeply human.