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This remarkable book provides deep insight into a unique mind.
Richard and Judy
This book is a must read for anybody who is interested in how the mind words.
Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Thinking in Pictures
Of special interest for me, though, is not just what Daniel can so extraordinarily do, but rather his capacity to describe how he does it. Such first-person explanations of savant abilities are extremely rare, in fact nearly non-existent.
Dr Darold Treffert, scientific advisor on the Rain Man movie
His synaesthesia gives him a richly textured, multi-sensory form of memory, and his autism gives him the narrow focus on number and syntactic patterns. The result is a story of a life that is both remarkable and inspiring.
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University
