Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening

Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 7, Episode 156 , Segment 1

Switched On, If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?

Episode: Switched On, If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?

  • Jun 30, 2018 1:00 pm
  • 40:48 mins

John Elder Robison is a New York Times Best Selling Author for his book, "Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's". Imagine living without one of your senses and one day it’s switched on. Suddenly you can hear for the first time or see color. John Elder Robison, knows what that feels like, but John wasn’t blind or deaf before this miraculous change. Mr. Robison has Asperger’s, a form of autism, that left him without the ability to read emotions, and he’s here to talk about how his life suddenly changed.