Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary Mind Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary Mind

Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary Mind

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Publisher Description

"I was born on 31 January 1979: a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, because the date is blue in my mind, and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number nine or the sound of loud voices arguing."

Like the character Dustin Hoffman portrayed in Rain Man, Daniel Tammet can perform extraordinary maths in his head, sees numbers as shapes, colours, textures, and motions, and can learn to speak a language fluently from scratch in three days. He also has a compulsive need for order and routine. He eats exactly 45 grams of porridge for breakfast and cannot leave the house without counting the number of items of clothing he's wearing. If he gets stressed or unhappy, he closes his eyes and counts. But in some ways, Daniel is not all like the Rain Man. He is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in being capable of living a fully-functioning, independent life. It is this incredible self-awareness and ability to communicate what it feels like to live in a totally extraordinary way that makes Born on a Blue Day so powerful.

GENRE
Biography
NARRATOR
DT
Daniel Tammet
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
02:57
hr min
RELEASED
2007
17 April
PUBLISHER
Hodder Headline Limited
PRESENTED BY
Audible.co.uk
SIZE
88.9
MB

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