Be Different
Be Different - Adventures of a free range Aspergian
Look Me in the Eye
Events and Engagements
Followers of Look Me in the Eye
Twitter Updates
Video and Audio Links
- Illustrated audio clip for Be Different
- Me, in various videos on YouTube
- My talk at the 2009 First Year Experience, pt 1 (7 minutes)
- FYE part 2 (5 minutes)
- Me on Boston Fox 25
- Speaking at Google, Sept 2008 (50 min)
- Challenge and Opportunity of Autism video
- Interview on Autism Podcast
- Me, in the Eye on Books Podcast
- A slideshow of me as a small child
- Barnes and Noble Reading: Opening Night
- Living With Asperger's: CBS Interview
- My Brother and Me Talk About the Book
- Find my work in a library near you
Order Look Me In The Eye
Learn more about John Robison and Look Me in the Eye
My Audio Book Preview
Browse Inside My Book
Interesting links
- My "official FB author" page - become a fan and get my updates
- Robison Service on Facebook - you can be a fan of the car company, too, and get my car blog updates
- My regular Facebook page
- The Robison Service blog
- Harvard Medical neuroscientist Alvaro Pascual-Leone and the TMS Lab
- Elms College, where I am the spokesman for the graduate autism program
- Paul Levy, who runs Beth Israel Deaconess medical ctr
- Me, on MySpace
- Me, on the Redroom author's site
- Goodreads, the book lover's place
- My brother's web site - Augusten Burroughs
- A few of my photographs
- My automobile business, Robison Service
- My mother's site
- My friend Jim Boughton. You'll meet Jim and his gasoline filled washtub in my book.
- Diary of a Mom, my friend Jess's blog
- Age of Autism
- Land Rover Lifestyle magazine, where you can read about my automotive life
- Where I answer life's questions for Land Rover owners
- And I do the same here for Rolls Royce owners
- Here are some links to my blog friends, many of whom have been here since the beginning
- Martha Frankel, author of Hats and Eyeglasses
- Doreen Orion, a BUS aficianado
- Kanani Fong's blogs
- Drama Mama
- Polly Kahl
- Kyra Anderson, a mom with an Aspergian child
- Haven Kimmel. She can run a tractor.
- Kim Stagliano, with her own autistic kids
- Pat Wood, author of Lottery
Other Aspergian Stuff
- Elms College
- Doug Flutie's autism foundation
- GRASP - Global Regional Asperger Partnership
- The Asperger Association of New England
- Autism Speaks
- Wrong Planet
- The Complete Guide to Asperger's - the new book from Dr. Tony Attwood
- Temple Grandin, whose work I identify with and enjoy greatly
- Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
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- A walk along the San Diego waterfront
- Dr. Liz Laugeson on How to Make Friends
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About Me
- John Elder Robison
- Pretending to be normal. That's how John Elder Robison spent much of his time before being diagnosed, at the age of forty, with Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism. In his illuminating memoir, Look Me in the Eye, he writes about overcoming his limitations to lead a successful life, and offers his keen insights into the irreducible strangeness of the human mind and the irrepressible strength of the human spirit.
The world was introduced to John Elder Robison in a memorable chapter from Running with Scissors, the bestselling memoir by his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs. Since then, he's been a regular feature in his brother's subsequent bestsellers. Now, with Look Me in The Eye and Be Different, Robison presents his own fascinating and darkly funny look at growing up with Asperger’s during a time when the diagnosis simply didn’t exist, and with no inkling of how to pass for normal.
Throughout his childhood, Robison could not connect with other people; instead, he found comfort in machines, which became his best friends. After fleeing his parents and dropping out of high school, he got a job with the rock band KISS, using his savant-like abilities to create their famous fire-breathing guitars. He later worked as a toy designer at Milton Bradley and held a number of other engineering and executive positions, before founding J E Robison Service Company, a renowned European car specialist.
At his speaking engagements, John will talk about his life as an undiagnosed free range Aspergian. He’ll offer his insights into how people with autism think, feel, and respond to others. He’ll talk about his recent experiences, including his advocacy work, his work with schools, and his participation in ground-breaking research with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. John also talks about his work with the Science Board of Autism Speaks, and his work on review and ethics boards for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control.In addition to his talks to schools and associations, John teaches courses on the Asperger Mind in the graduate school at Elms College in Chicopee, MA.
Look Me in the Eye and Be Different are published in the USA by Crown, an imprint of Random House. Outside the US, John's writing has been translated into over twenty languages and his books are sold worldwide.
Me, on a Land Rover outing in 2005
Me, in 2005
Me
Spring, 2007
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