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Not Even Wrong
A Father’s Journey into the Lost History of AutismBy Paul CollinsNarrated by Tim GetmanLength6h 50m
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When Paul Collins’s son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head … but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation—or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted—will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world.
In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son’s autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, Collins’s travels take him from an English churchyard to the Seattle labs of Microsoft, and from a Wisconsin prison cell block to the streets of Vienna. It is a story that reaches from a lonely clearing in the Black Forest into the London palace of King George I, from Defoe and Swift to the discovery of evolution; from the modern dawn of the computer revolution to, in the end, the author’s own household.
Not Even Wrong is a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology—a meditation on what “normal” is, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (1.3K)
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Self-Help
Length6 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byTim Getman
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 26, 2022
LanguageEnglish
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