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An Anthropologist on Mars

An Anthropologist on Mars 2015-01-15

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An Anthropologist on Mars - a professor of clinical neurology interviews Temple Grandin in the title essay

What happens to his art when a painter can't see color?

How does autobiographical narrative help codify acceptance of autism as a human condition?

Why does a surgeon afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome not suffer from the affliction when he's operating on a patient?

In the preface to An Anthropologist on Mars, Sacks presents things that move us from the "norm," the center of the Bell Curve, as things which enable latent mental powers for brains to rewire themselves that only emerge...

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When I was diagnosed, this was actually the very first book that introduced me to the autism spectrum.
 

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