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How to Be 'Normal'

Daniel Tammet

An eye-opening short book by the international bestselling writer of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.

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.

These short essays come together in a beautifully written sometimes humorous but always refreshing narrative that focuses on the eccentricities of modern life as seen through the eyes of someone always on the outside. Rather wonderfully it illustrates the eccentricity inherent in every kind of mind reminding us of the little-noticed strangeness of our common humanity while subtly questioning what it means to be thought 'normal'.

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  • Classification : General Non-Fiction
  • Pub Date : SEP 10, 2020
  • Imprint : Quercus
  • Page Extent : 64
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781529410204
  • Price : INR 699
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Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet is a writer linguist and educator. A 2007 poll of 4000 Britons named him as one of the world's "100 living geniuses". His website company Optimnem has provided foreign language instruction to thousands around the globe. His last book the Sunday Times bestseller Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant has been translated into 18 languages. He lives in Avignon in the south of France.

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