"i never imagined that just a brief experience like that could change your life forever," he says. "I don't know what to say, except that i'm changed all these years later." He adds: "And the insight, i think, has been empowering but it was a really, really rough ride"
John Elder Robison is a gifted sound engineer whose rare ability to understand machines propelled him to work with the likes of Kiss and Diana Ross. But the one thing he always felt was lacking was his ability to understand people emotionally. In an effort to see if he could change that, he volunteered to participate in an experimental brain study.
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