TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tammet,Daniel
TI  - How to be 'normal': notes on the eccentricities of modern life 
T2  - Little Ways to Live a Big Life
SN  - 9781529410204
PY  - 2020///
CY  - [United Kingdom]
PB  - Quercus Publishing
KW  - AUTISM
KW  - ASPERGER SYNDROME
KW  - DIFFERENCE
KW  - NEUROTYPICAL
KW  - ATTITUDES
KW  - DIVERSITY
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
N1  - Cover: by the bestselling author of 'Born On a Blue Day'; Introduction -- A nightclub -- The tatooist -- Small talk -- Ugly vegetables -- Letters -- Lost property -- The anti-age cream user -- Joggers -- Going up -- Selfies -- Electioneering -- The lottery
N2  - 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'. -- amazon.com
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