Daniel Tammet: Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

Excerpt

This is a NY Times bestselling memoir from Daniel Tammet, a 28 year old, who has an autism spectrum disorder and is a savant. Daniel’s story is both inspirational and instructive. Daniel has a rare neurological condition know as synesthesia, which enables him to experience numbers as colors, shapes, and textures. He parlays this unusual ability into setting a record breaking recitation of over 22,000 decimal places of the number Pi and a documentary film about his life and abilities. His extraordinary abilities extend beyond numbers. Daniel has the ability to learn languages in a matter of days. After his record breaking recitation of Pi he appeared upon Late Night with David Letterman and even a talk show in Iceland where he spoke Icelandic for the entire show- a language that he only learned four days before the taping of the show. …