Singular Brains

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
10.31.2010
(was 02.24.2008)

Every person on earth is unique and special, but some people – maybe one in a hundred – are autistic. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we get to know a few autistic people with Asperger's Syndrome. We'll hear what it's like to try to live in the world when you have visionary technical abilities but also the social skills of a rock. Also, Oliver Sacks will tell us about the human brain and music.

  1. Lizzie and Nicky Gottlieb on film "Today's Man"

    Lizzie Gottlieb has a younger brother with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. She made a film, "Today's Man," about his abortive efforts to get a job and move out of his parents' brownstone in New York.

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  2. John Elder Robison on "Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's"

    John Elder Robison, whose younger brother is the writer Augusten Burroughs, did not get his diagnosis of Asperger's until he was in his 40s.

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  3. Howard Dully on "My Lobotomy: A Memoir"

    Howard Dully was twelve when he underwent a trans-orbital lobotomy.

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  4. Oliver Sacks on "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain."

    Oliver Sacks believes that, despite how much we learn, we may never understand how the brain works.

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