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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.
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...
2) Raising Cubby: a father and son's adventures with Asperger's, trains, tractors, and high explosives
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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[2013]
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English
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John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn't a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at forty, he approached fatherhood as series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. Still, John got the basics right, and gave his son Cubby a life of adventure. What he couldn't figure out was what to do when school authorities said that Cubby was dumb and stubborn - the very same thing he had been told as a child.
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