Finished "Look Me In The Eye"

Last Wednesday I finished the book "Look Me In The Eye" which was a book my book club selected. I enjoyed the book, which is a memoir of a gentleman that was diagnosed in his 40s with Asperger's Syndrome (a high functioning form of autism). It gave great insight into how his VERY LOGICAL thought process works, with NO basis of emotional influence. His lack of understanding why others behave in manners related to emotion is very much do to not being able to relate. I must say I wish I would have read his brother's memoir "Running with Scissors" first, so I could have had an understanding of how dysfunctional his parents were. He mentions in the beginning of the book that his mom is mentally ill -- I was thinking mild. Much later in the books he describes his mom having a conversation with him while smoking, then her eating cigarette butts....I had to change my whole "mentally ill" concept to "institutionally mentally ill". I plan to read his brother's memoir soon!