Nine Lives: The worlds of nine neurodiverse people are imaginative and rich

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Nine Lives: The worlds of nine neurodiverse people are imaginative and rich

Apr 13, 2024; Harrison, New Jersey, USA; A Autism Acceptance banner is displayed before a match between Chicago Fire FC and the New York Red Bulls at Red Bull Arena. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports - 23018299

The message of Nine Minds is that there is no such thing as a single neurodiverse experience

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Nine Minds
Daniel Tammet (Wellcome Collection)

How do you see inside the mind of someone else, how they really experience the world? Often, our mental shortcuts let us assume that everyone encounters it as we do.

But they don’t: we all experience the world differently. And that is where reading or listening to other people’s stories helps. In Nine Minds: Inner lives on the spectrum, Daniel Tammet, himself autistic, creates narrative portraits of nine neurodiverse people, setting out…



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