![]() ![]() In 2011, Robison was featured on an episode of Ingenious Minds, which discussed some of the transcranial magnetic stimulation experiments he underwent to improve his social cognition. ![]() He was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at age 40. He is the elder brother of memoirist Augusten Burroughs, who also wrote about his childhood in the memoir Running with Scissors. Robison later dropped out of high school. During his adolescence, Robison suffered abuse from his father and mother. Robison (1935–2005), former head of the philosophy department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the son of poet Margaret Robison (1935–2015) and John G. Robison was born in Athens, Georgia, while his parents were attending the University of Georgia. ![]() John Elder Robison (born August 13, 1957) is the American author of the 2007 memoir Look Me in the Eye, detailing his life with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and savant abilities, and of three other books. Look Me in the Eye (2007), Be Different (2011), Switched On (2016) ![]()
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