How to be 'normal' : notes on the eccentricities of modern life
Tammet, Daniel, 1979-2020
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Have you ever wondered how neurotypicals - so called 'normal' people - come across to those who are on the autistic spectrum? Daniel Tammet is an essayist, poet, novelist and translator. In 2004, he was diagnosed with high-functioning autistic savant syndrome. In this eye-opening and fascinating book, he takes readers on a tour around nightclubs, ponders the significance of tattoos, delves into anti-age creams and puzzles over playing the lottery, all from the perspective of someone who approaches everything in life from a unique angle. After all, this is a man for whom Wednesdays are always blue, who sees numbers as shapes and who learned conversational Icelandic from scratch in seven days.
Main title:
How to be 'normal' : notes on the eccentricities of modern life / Daniel Tammet.
Author:
Tammet, Daniel, 1979-, author
Imprint:
London : Quercus, 2020.
Collation:
64 pages ; 19 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781529410204 (hbk)
Dewey class:
302302 TAM
Language:
English
BRN:
2984273