Look Me in the Eye . . .My Life With Asperger's by John Elder Robinson by Deborah Sidler https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw This the the Book Club for Look Me in the Eye . . .My Life With Asperger's. Here students of all periods will house their weekly content and respond to the content of their peers. Look for the topic question each Monday and respond by Friday. . en-us 2022-04-25 21:08:05 UTC 2022-05-06 21:53:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Question #1 dsidler2 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2157355203 Choose a passage from your reading that describes a character. Re-write the passage here and explain what it makes you think about the character.]]> 2022-04-25 21:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2157355203 When I was fourteen, my guidance counselor said, "john, some of your tricks are sick. They are evil. They indicate deep-seated emotion problems." https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167065221 2022-05-02 16:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167065221 ¨iv´e read people like you. They have no feeling some of the worst murders in history were sociopaths¨ This makes me feel about the character that has a good person to give advice -Adrian https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167070196 2022-05-02 16:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167070196 Lucia Valladares per- 6 Q#1 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167354947 "I was starting to figure out that I was different. But I had a positive outlook. I would make the best of my lot in life as a defective child ." This makes me think that he has a really strong mindset at such a young age for being able to accept himself for being different and taking it in a good way. ]]> 2022-05-02 20:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167354947 "As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act 'normal.' I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago." https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167435262 Brook Mooers, P. 8
Because all the people John was around as a child were neurotypical, he learned that he had to act like them in order to be seen as "normal," because in his time people who acted like him were perceived as psychopaths and murderers.

]]> 2022-05-02 21:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167435262 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167436162 it was a scene from hell. 

chonks of burning magnesium had scatterred everywhere from the blast. some were eating holes on the van parkedin the driveway]]> 2022-05-02 21:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167436162 Jose Paniagua Per:8 - Q#1 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167437288 "she grabbed my little paw and towed me in. I wanted to roll up in a ball and disappear."
This passage describes the character as scared or frightened]]> 2022-05-02 21:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2167437288 QUESTION #2 - CONFLICT dsidler2 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2172104104 By this point in your memoir, the author's CONFLICT is probably becoming clear.  Usually memoir relies heavily on INTERNAL CONFLICT, since the author is narrating a true story about themselves.  

 1) Locate/Read a passage revealing INTERNAL CONFLICT
 2) Discuss briefly how this passage reveals the inward/psychological struggle of the author]]> 2022-05-05 21:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2172104104 edgar-per2-q2 1659276 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2173087583 Whatever I am doing, it feels perfectly normal to me. But I guess "normal" people don't do it. 
This shows that what he thinks is normal is different from what other people consider "normal"]]> 2022-05-06 15:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2173087583 Lucia Valladares, period 6 Q2 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2173391596 I had learned something from my humiliation at the hands of Ronnie Ronson and Chuckie and all the other kids I'd tried and failed to make friends with." This shows that he struggled trying to fit in at a young age were that shouldn't even be a struggle but it was for him because he had a different type of mindset ]]> 2022-05-06 19:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2173391596 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2173466376 “He chewed a dogsized hole in the bedroom door we found him lying in the sun in the backyard seeing that I tried chewing the door myself”

This shows that he thinks that he can do anything a animal or human can do his mindset is funny ]]> 2022-05-06 21:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2173466376 Brook Mooers, p.8 q.2 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2173481974 "I thought of the knife my grandfather had given me for Christmas. Solingen steel. Eight inches long. Sharp. I could roll over and jam it into him, right to the hilt. Right in the belly. But I was afraid. What if I miss? What if it doesn't kill him? I had seen the movies, where they just kept on coming. They didn't die like they were supposed to. He might kill me for real, then. So I never did. But it thought about it. Many nights."
Because of his father's abusive parenting, John Elder fantasizes about murdering his father, and the only thing stopping him was the fear that it wouldn't work. ]]> 2022-05-06 21:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/mntt1cujx6odfyuw/wish/2173481974