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Daniel Tammet’s ‘Born on a Blue Day’
By Richard | April 16, 2007
‘Born on a Blue Day’
‘Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant ‘
Daniel Tammet, Author | Thursday, April 12, 2007; 11:00 AM | Washington Post
Autistic savant Daniel Tammet learned Icelandic in a week and can recite pi to the 22,514th digit. In his memoir, “Born on a Blue Day,” he describes what it’s like growing up and living with Asperger’s syndrome and synesthesia, a condition which causes him to understand words and numbers as “shapes, colors, textures and motions.”
He was online Thursday, April 12 at 11 a.m. to take your questions about his book and life.
A transcript follows. MORE
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