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After getting a divorce with his second marriage, he got married again years later. He realizes that his second marriage is better than his first. He truly appreciates his new wife because shes the only person who can actually get him to smile. His wife actually understands his feelings, and knows how to make him feel better.

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1) "Autism Book Representation." Tiktok, uploaded by Fowlerville District Library,
6 Jan. 2022, tiktok.com. Accessed 1 Apr. 2022.
2) Johnson, Mark. Of a book called, Look Me in the Eye. Instagram, 13 Apr. 2016.
Accessed 1 Apr. 2022.
3) "My life with Aspergers: 24 years after diagnosis - John Elder Robinson."
youtube, Autism Explained, Sept. 2021, www.youtube.com/
watch?v=eTRQLkTRJSA. Accessed 1 Apr. 2022.

4) A photo of a book titled Look Me in the Eye. Instagram, 4 Oct. 2020. Accessed 1
Apr. 2022.
5) Robinson, John Elder. Look Me in the Eye. Three Rivers Press, 2007.
6) "The shocking experience of finally seeing the full spectrum of emotion."
youtube, PBS NewsHour, 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNMz5zVY69U.
Accessed 1 Apr. 2022.

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This shows that he inspiring other people. Lots of people think it is awesome that he is sharing his personal experiences, and it can help us understand what someone like him is going through instead of judging them.

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This is an Instagram post created by Mark Johnson. This shows John Elder's impact on autism month because people are choosing to read his book to become more aware.

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This shows that he is becoming known on multiple social media platforms such as tik tok. (His book is one of the last one in the video).

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This has an impact because it shows that he is becoming more known. John Elder is impacting the world by making more people aware of the challenges he and other people have/are facing.

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The shocking experience of finally seeing the full spectrum of emotion

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This shows that he is wiling to talk to other people about his experiences. This may help other people know that they aren't going through this alone.

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My life with Aspergers: 24 years after diagnosis - John Elder Robison

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John has always feared rejection from other people he is interested in. He then plays it cool around people he likes so they don't ridicule him. He liked Little Bear so much, but it didn't end up lasting because they both grew in different directions.

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John realized that people don't like the names that he gives people. Being the respectful man he is, he tried to use people's real name, but it was too difficult for him. He does however change people name as time goes by. "To his partner, Dennis, I say, 'Where's my brother?' To my son, I say, 'Where's your uncle?'" (243).

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When John stumbled across an Asperger's test, he decided to see if it would match his decription. John soon realized that he matched nearly perfectly to the descriptions and then officially confirmed that he had Asperger's Disorder.

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To ensure that he is the best father he can possibly be, he started reading books about babies and pregnancy since the beginning of when his wife got pregnant. He was so protective of Jack that he made the doctors but a tab thing on him to ensure that he got the right baby back.

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After marrying his childhood best friend, he had a child with her. They did end their friendship a while back due to a false rumor, but reconnected years later. He named his child Jack in honer of his grandfather. Like every other person John knows, he gave Jack a nickname. Jack's nickname is Bear Cub because he calls his wife Little Bear.

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After reading a book titled "Born on a Blue Day", John learned more about himself, and why he acts and understands things the way he does. After reading the book he realized he is not alone in the world, and other people can relate to him. "As I recall my own development, I can see how I went through periods where my ability to focus inward and do complex calculations in my mind developed rapidly" (208).

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Whenever someone starts a small talk conversation with John Elder, he never knows how to respond. After hearing a similar conversation to one he had a few days prior, he learned that people want you to act interested.

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John realized that he wasn't making a good living by getting 3000 dollars a month, and then no money for the next three months. When he realized his situation, he decides to apply for a real job. John ended up getting the hob with a 25k a year salary. "'Milton Bradley's electronics division is pleased to offer you the position of Staff Engineer in our Advanced R&D Group" (178).

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Instead of his father yelling at him and using violence towards him, he now calls John randomly in the day while drunk. Being the kind soul John is, he goes to check on his dad just to make sure he is still alive, and to see if he has been smoking or drinking. "In just five years, he'd gone from beating me up to being a blubbering baby" (173).

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After fixing so many sound things for musicians like speakers, he became well known and an official sound engineer. He worked with all different kinds of music like Judas Priest, and Blondie. "And I was the sound engineer" (129).

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John and his band went on vacation far away from where they live. On vacation, everyone but John was doing drugs. John did how ever drink some alcohol, but that is not why he was arrested. The police on the island searched the house they were staying at, and found multiple bags of drugs. In the end John was released once he was found not guilty. "After we were all booked, Inspector Vincent led us to a cell" (119).

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There was a band Fat, and they offered John a paycheck and a place to stay if he worked for the full time fixing up their amplifiers and other stuff. This was the first time John had moved away from his parents besides living in the woods with an old veteran one time. "With my own motorcycle, a place to live, and a role in the top band, I felt I had made it" (114).

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A report card that showed all F's made John Elder realize that it was time for him to drop out. John was fifteen at the time, and it is illegal to drop out of high school before the age of sixteen. The school did not like John that much so they gave him a deal. The deal was that is he passed the GED test, they will treat him as a graduate. John passed with almost a 100%. The clerk told him he needed to pay 20 dollars. John responded with, "'No thanks,' I said. 'I don't need your diploma'" (90).

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John started pulling pranks on people such as his brother. The pranks started off small like digging a hole and seeing if his brother could get out. He then started getting into more serious pranks which led his parent to make him talk to a therapist about it. The therapist said it was most likely emotional damage which made him want to get back at people. One of his pranks got really serious to the point where there was police, firetrucks, and ambulances. "Now we had blue, red, and yellow lights all flashing. The road was blocked" (81).

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As John became good at fixing things, he learned his ability to change an instrument. He got so good to the point where musicians would ask him to help them with their equipment. John discovered his own way to do things, and he would put the words that they were saying into different words that he would understand. "And, most remarkably, I developed the ability to translate those waves I saw in my mind into sounds I imagined in my head..." (65).

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John started to become interested in taking apart and building electronics. He read multiple books and started to learn new things. "On the way, I learned to solder, and I began to understand what the different electronic components were, and how they worked" (60).

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When John was eleven his dad's drinking got way worse and his dad slammed John into the wall for supposedly being too loud. John feared his father when he began drinking, and this made him wish his dad died in a car crash. "I walked by him, and I guess I was too noisy, because he grabbed me, shook me violently, and slammed me into the wall so hard that I fractured the plaster" (51).

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His grandfather bought a Porsche at an auction, and even though John Elder didn't have his license, his grandfather let him drive it. John knew nearly everything about a Porsche, and could tell you what model it was. "'Can I drive it?' I had never driven a Porsche before. I didn't have a drivers license yet, but Jack didn't know or didn't care" (47).

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As soon as John Elder became more older and mature, he figured out better techniques to make new friends. He then makes friends with the kids in the new neighborhood he and his parents just moved to.