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Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
Free Press
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 1416535071
EAN: 9781416535072
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
Born on a Blue Day
is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive
today --
guided by its owner himself. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as
shapes,
colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary
calculations in
his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from
scratch,
in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than
22,000 digits of
pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare
condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers,
much like
those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain
Man.
Daniel has a compulsive need for order and routine -- he
eats the same
precise amount of cereal for breakfast every morning and
cannot leave
the house without counting the number of items of clothing he's
wearing. When he gets stressed or is unhappy, he closes his
eyes and
counts. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the
Rain Man:
he is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic
disorders
in that he is capable of living a fully independent life. He has
emerged from the "other side" of autism with the ability to
function
successfully -- he is even able to explain what is happening
inside his
head.
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