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.
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Happy Birthday! This book is travelling towards Honolulu.

Wishlist RABCK from the 2014 birthday group - thank you!

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Sounds fascinating!

Asperger's syndrome is a condition on the autism spectrum, but apparently Tammet's is not too severe (even though he had some serious difficulties as a young child), and over the years he has learned to cope with it quite well. I suspect that his savant abilities - making him different in a good way, as opposed to his less-beneficial differences - have helped him deal with the larger world, as has the support of his family. His parents deserve lots of credit for their unfailing efforts to help their son, even when it must have been very difficult for them.

Synesthesia itself is a fascinating subject, although difficult to really understand for anyone without it. Oh, and I'm jealous of Tammet's language abilities!

This is Europe read #2 (UK) for kiwiinengland's 2015 Around the World Reading Challenge.

Origami is Metamorphosis by David Mitchell of the UK; larger photo here.

Headed out in quietorchid's Medicine Chest V box - go book, go!

Doesn't this sound fascinating?! Hope to read it soon.

I still have this in my stack to read.

I'll be sending this out in the next round of the ABC VBB. Enjoy!

Never was able to get into this one.

I'll be sending this off in MaryZee's Biographies of Things Bookbox soon.

Claimed from the 2019 version of the Biographies of Things box with thanks!

Mom got a chance to read this, and found it interesting.

Friday, September 13, 2019: a Friday-night dropoff for the library. (Larger photo here.)

Released for Plum-crazy's September Sapphire challenge.

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