"I had always been kind of a a social failure. But at my car business, i had to learn enough social skills," he says. "It's not like i was sitting in a therapist's office saying, doctor, tell me what's wrong with me." The book is called asburger sentrims by a doctor tony atwood.
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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