Writing in the style of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Silberman paints beautiful biographical portraits through prose.
Silberman’s new book, “Neurotribes ,” recounts his quest to understand, as the book’s subtitle states, “the legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity.”Unraveling the legacy consumes the lion’s share of the book’s 500 pages.
Assuming the prevalence of autism was low, Silberman thought he had stumbled onto cause and effect. Months later, he learned that the sister of one of Silicon Valley’s most famous entrepreneurs also has an autistic child. While writing for Wired magazine, he learned that one of Silicon Valley’s most famous coders has an autistic child. Autism research - and science in general - is constantly evolving, so older articles may contain information or theories that have been reevaluated since their original publication date.įifteen years ago, Steve Silberman was hot on the investigative trail of a “mysterious rise” in autism diagnoses in California’s Silicon Valley. For someone who has struggled all his life to connect with other people, Robison proves to be an extraordinary storyteller.This article is more than five years old. This book is a rare fusion of inspiration, dark comedy and insight into the workings of the human mind. Along the way it also tells the story of two brothers born eight years apart yet devoted to each other: the author and his younger brother Chris, who would grow up to become bestselling author Augusten Burroughs.
Look Me in the Eye is his story of growing up with Asperger's syndrome - a form of autism - at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. It didn't help that his mother conversed with light fixtures and his father spent evenings pickling himself in sherry. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, and by the time he was a teenager his odd habits - an inclination to blurt out non-sequiturs, obsessively dismantle radios or dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them) - had earned him the label 'social deviant'.
COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : From the time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people.
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