Description

Ny Times Bestseller“As nice and funny and sad and genuine and sincere a memoir as you might find.”—from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Since he was small, Steve Robison wished for connecting with others, but by the full time he was an adolescent, his peculiar habits—an interest to let out non-sequiturs, avoid eye-contact, dismantle receivers, and search five-foot openings (and adhere his younger sibling, Augusten Burroughs, inside them)—had gained him the tag “social deviant.” It wasn't till he was forty that he was diagnosed with a kind of autism called Asperger’s affliction. That comprehension changed the way in which he noticed himself—and the planet. A born storyteller, Robison has created a moving, darkly humorous memoir in regards to a life that's consumed him from developing overflowing instruments for Hug to creating a group of their own. It’s an unusual, sly, marked account—sometimes alien however usually profoundly human.