Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
by:
Daniel Tammet (author)
A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today—guided by the owner himself.Bestselling author Daniel Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life and able to explain what is...
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A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today—guided by the owner himself.Bestselling author Daniel Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life and able to explain what is happening inside his head. He 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 the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man. Fascinating and inspiring, Born on a Blue Day explores what it’s like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human—our minds.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781416535072 (1416535071)
Publish date: January 9th 2007
Publisher: Free Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Science,
Adult,
Health,
Biography Memoir,
Psychology,
Mental Health
An interesting and engaging story of a man with Aspergers, his life experience and what he is doing with his life. I found it both interesting and a touch exasperating and can imagine that he is a hard person to life with or work with. The focus is continusously on him and you can see how others c...
An introduction to autism, written by a savant. I now have a much bettr understanding of what it is like to live with autism. The author has made great progress in his life, accepting his limitations and focusing on his many strengths. If all of us would do that.....
Tammet describes his life as a child and adolescent with undiagnosed Asperger's. He was later identified as a person with mathematical savantism, rare in people with generally normal cognitive skills. I was fascinated by Tammet's descriptions of how he learns and the role synesthesia plays in his re...
An interesting and engaging story of a man with Aspergers, his life experience and what he is doing with his life. I found it both interesting and a touch exasperating and can imagine that he is a hard person to life with or work with. The focus is continusously on him and you can see how others cou...
Interesting - actually more questions have arisen in my mind about autism than when I started the book. Three stars - which means I liked it. Well I quess I liked it, sort of. What it did give me is a real feeling for how the author sees life. He has both Asperger's syndrome and synaesthesia. Look t...
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