{"product_id":"how-to-be-normal","title":"How to Be 'Normal'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening short book by the international bestselling writer of \u003ci\u003eBorn on a Blue Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThinking in Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHave you ever wondered how neurotypicals - so called 'normal' people - come across to those who are on the autistic spectrum? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Daniel Tammet is an essayist poet novelist and translator. In 2004 he was diagnosed with high-functioning autistic savant syndrome. In this eye-opening and fascinating book he takes readers on a tour around nightclubs ponders the significance of tattoos delves into anti-age creams and puzzles over playing the lottery all from the perspective of someone who approaches everything in life from a unique angle. After all this is a man for whom Wednesdays are always blue who sees numbers as shapes and who learned conversational Icelandic from scratch in seven days.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These short essays come together in a beautifully written sometimes humorous but always refreshing narrative that focuses on the eccentricities of modern life as seen through the eyes of someone always on the outside. Rather wonderfully it illustrates the eccentricity inherent in every kind of mind reminding us of the little-noticed strangeness of our common humanity while subtly questioning what it means to be thought 'normal'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44789345419443,"sku":"9781529410204","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478082249781529410204.jpg?v=1762847135","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/how-to-be-normal","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}