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26 Aug 2017, 1:52 am

Daniel Tammet: why autism is no bar to becoming a bestselling author He thought and felt in numbers before embracing words, and now Tammet has become proof that as a writer with autism he has more than one book in him


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26 Aug 2017, 2:08 am

Thank you for posting that, reading it was a joy. What a wonderfully complex mind he has (and has always had). I deeply admire him.



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07 Sep 2017, 10:17 pm

I read most of his book Born on a Blue Day... I would like to read more... and many of us have a lot of books in us... as a discriminated-against minority (and most people fall into at least one minority category, but we get discriminated against more than someone would for being NT), we do have a lot to say. I hope to get my books published very soon too.



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12 Sep 2017, 8:05 pm

I shall look forward to buying and reading them. You go girl.



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13 Sep 2017, 12:43 pm

Thanks, I really enjoyed reading his book.


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