Knowing the book was published in 2007, and with Asperger's in the title, I expected some outdated terminology, which was the case. There was also an unexpected amount of internalized ableism in terms of how he considered himself when compared to other Autistic people, racism in terms of how he described Asian port workers, and possibly kink/fetish in terms of how he describes his wife "petting" him and calls her hands "paws" and his hair "fur". Despite having a close relationship with his gay brother, he at one point calls his mother's relationships with other women after her separation from his father "unnatural".
I chose to read this because I enjoyed his brother's (Augusten Burroughs) memoirs, and overall, I enjoyed this far less.
The first half is fast paced, about his early life and how he got into the engineering field using his fascination with sound and autism-related ability to hyper focus. The second half is full of false stops where it seemed like the memoir could have ended and been tied up neatly. I had to push myself to finish the last 50 pages.