Post by jfla on Sept 2, 2009 9:22:35 GMT -5
I just finished reading Born On A Blue Monday by Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant. This is the same fellow, "Brainman", that JJ posted a link about one and a half years ago. It is a fascinating read as he describes his life and how he thinks.
Brain Man
« Thread Started on Mar 2, 2007, 4:44pm » Quote
For those of you who do not use Yahoo they have a video about this guy with mild Autism. He is an amazing human calculator. You have to watch this....I am fascinated by it.
60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/44/brain_man
wikipedia:
Daniel Paul Tammet (born 31 January 1979) is a British prodigious Savant (high-functioning autistic savant) gifted with a facility for mathematical and natural language learning. He was born Daniel Corney (later deciding to change his surname to Tammet), the first of nine children, to working-class parents in London.[1] In his memoir, Born on a Blue Day, he talks about how having epilepsy, synaesthesia, and Asperger Syndrome deeply affected his childhood.
Brain Man
« Thread Started on Mar 2, 2007, 4:44pm » Quote
For those of you who do not use Yahoo they have a video about this guy with mild Autism. He is an amazing human calculator. You have to watch this....I am fascinated by it.
60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/44/brain_man
wikipedia:
Daniel Paul Tammet (born 31 January 1979) is a British prodigious Savant (high-functioning autistic savant) gifted with a facility for mathematical and natural language learning. He was born Daniel Corney (later deciding to change his surname to Tammet), the first of nine children, to working-class parents in London.[1] In his memoir, Born on a Blue Day, he talks about how having epilepsy, synaesthesia, and Asperger Syndrome deeply affected his childhood.