It took a savant to explain the electoral college to me, go figure! I really enjoyed Mr. Tammet's prior book, Born on a Blue day, which is more autobiographical and focuses on his spectrum disorder. I was delighted to find there was not much repetitive overlap between the two books, as sometimes ...
As a person with aspergers I find books quite fascinating although i can get a bit fed up with the fiction types !!! were they seem to dwell to much on how we tale things literallY but i found this fascinating as went into how the brain works especilly the memory side...
Imagine getting a glimpse inside the mind of someone living with autism. Tammet takes us into his world in this beautiful and fascinating memoir (for lack of a better descriptor) written in his mid-twenties. Tammet's world is one of numbers, counting, language, and other fascinations. It is also ...
Or rather, they thought of it as an all-enveloping and all-enfeebling mist, without clear shape or pattern. Only the bright stars overhead pricked the pervasive gloom, helping the nomads to anticipate rain and decide when to take their animals to pasture. To make sense of their lives, the men san...