Since the success of his first book John Elder Robison has found his calling as a speaker and advocate for people with Asperger’s and other forms of autism. Today it’s sold in over 20 editions in 70+ countries worldwide. His memoir Look Me in the Eye was published in 2007. “It took some time, and a lot of hard work, but the knowledge of how and why I am different transformed my life.” It was in this role that one of his clients introduced him to Asperger’s Syndrome, and the knowledge changed his life forever. He later worked as an engineer with a major toy and game company for a decade.īy the late 1980s he was manager at a Boston electronics firm, he still had no idea how to fit into a corporate environment, and felt “sure differences would mark as a fraud, someone who should tossed in the street or worse.That fear drove him to quitting his job and fixing Mercedes and Land Rover cars in his driveway.įrom that beginning, J E Robison Service grew into one of the most successful independent repair businesses in New England. The problem was, that Asperger’s Syndrome had not yet been “discovered” So rather that being helped, he ended up dropping out of high school and using his fascination and fixation on electronic to special effects guitars for KISS by the late 1970s. Born in Athens, Georgia in 1957, John soon found that he was “always a problem child - often sad, a loner, unable to make friends.
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