Born On A Blue Day
eBook - ePub

Born On A Blue Day

Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Born On A Blue Day

Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter 1: Blue Nines and Red Words
  4. Chapter 2: Early Years
  5. Chapter 3: Struck by Lightning: Epilepsy
  6. Chapter 4: School Days
  7. Chapter 5: Odd One Out
  8. Chapter 6: Adolescence
  9. Chapter 7: Ticket to Kaunas
  10. Chapter 8: Falling in Love
  11. Chapter 9: The Gift of Tongues
  12. Chapter 10: A Very Large Slice of Pi
  13. Chapter 11: Meeting Kim Peek
  14. Chapter 12: Reykjavík, New York, Home
  15. Reading Group Guide
  16. Copyright