For a 22-year-old author to publish a book is a major accomplishment. It’s even more impressive when the writer is autistic. In “Episodes: My Life As I See It,” Carmel Valley resident Blaze Ginsberg recounts his teen years with all the normal...

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THE instant Derek Paravicini heard the sound of the music, he broke free from his parents' grasp and headed towards it. The little girl on the piano stool took a tumble as the then four-year-old boy, blind, autistic and severely learning impaired,...
Topics: savant

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BULLIED by other children and bewildered by ordinary life, Daniel Tammet spent his early years burrowed deep inside the world of numbers. They were his companions and his solace, living, breathing beings that enveloped him with their shapes and textures..
Topics: AT HOME WITH: DANIEL TAMMET; Brainman, At Rest In His Oasis

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As a young child, Daniel Tammet had seizures. They turned him into a strange boy. ''I'm seeing things in my head like little sparks firing off,'' Mr. Tammet, a 26-year-old Englishman, says tonight on ''Brainman,'' on...
Topics: A Savant Aided by the Sparks That He Sees Inside His Head

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Daniel Tammet likes to call himself a high-functioning autistic savant. That means his brain is capable of learning a foreign language in a week and memorising vast chains of numbers perfectly I would be lying if I said that I didn't expect Daniel...
Topics: Inside the mind of an autistic genius

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