"i know i have all this trouble and it's never going to end. And i was really sad, but i couldn't help reading the the book he had left me." "I can teach myself that even if it makes me uncomfortable to look in your eyes when you're talking to me, i can look at your cheeks," she says of her new-found clarity. 'It really changed my life for the better'
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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