Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant : a memoir / Daniel Tammet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tammet, Daniel, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tammet, Daniel, 1979---Mental health.

Tammet, Daniel.

Tammet, Daniel, 1979-.

Autistic people--England--Biography.

Autistic people.

Savants (Savant syndrome).

Mental health.

England.

Savants (Savant syndrome)--England--Biography.

Autistic Disorder.

Medical Subjects:

Autistic Disorder.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

ix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Free Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, 2007.

Summary:

A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today--guided by its owner. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn new languages from scratch, in a week. He has savant syndrome, a rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the Rain Man: he is virtually unique among autistic people in that he is capable of living an independent life. He is even able to explain what is happening inside his head. Starting from early childhood, when he was incapable of making friends and prone to tantrums, to young adulthood, when he learned how to control himself and to live independently, fell in love, experienced a religious conversion to Christianity, and most recently, emerged as a celebrity.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Blue nines and red words

Early years

Struck by lightning: epilepsy

School days

Odd one out

Adolescence

Ticket to Kaunas

Falling in love

The gift of tongues

A very large slice of Pi

Meeting Kim Pek

Reykjavik, New York, home.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2006.

ISBN:

1416535071

9781416535072

OCLC:

70483575

Online:

Publisher description