How can I talk if my lips don’t move by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Book summary
Account of a young man’s development after being diagnosed with severe autism at age three and how his mind worked, and reacted to the world, from sound becoming colours, to learning recognises objects and faces.
Rating: Recommend to others
Format:
Audiobook
Narration: Mark Ashby, https://www.voices.com/profile/soundmindvoiceovers
Good narration, really seemed to capture the book and communicated the essence of the authors experiences very well. Recommended narrator.
Chapters: Foreword and 62
Table of contents:
Through the mirror
The Color of basic words
Following the belief
What coudl the upstairs mirror tell the handheld mirror?
No wonder I dont talk!
Shadows don't tell stories
Flapping my hands, flapping my shadow
Autism! A fancy Word
Shadows the color of my scream!
Tracing the shape of shadows and trapping them in place
My story forms around staircases
Railway Staircases
Why was mother stopping me from climbing?
Those building blocsk
I no longer need to climb
Escalator ride
The power to control darkeness and light
Unpredictability
The power of a ceiling fan to make me feel sure
Power outages happeneded, depsite the moving fan
Feeding my body
"Wish he could dress himself"
When learning turns to obession
The torn shirts
Walking in my shoes
A grip on the shoelaces
"How do you perceive a linear situation?"
Perceiving a nonlinear situation, with unpredictable results
In a crowded place
On a swing
Perceiving faces
Everyday faces
Magazine Pictures
Exposure helps shape visual perception
When I think of the wind, I am the wind
Overperceiving and underperceiving
Why couldn't I draw a sun?
A game of catch
Ball-man
"Whats going on Here?"
Scattered Sesnes
The boy who does not talk but solves jigsaw puzzles
"Who knows what I had written down as my answer to 4+2 = ?"
Learning to write
Divine Phenomenon !
Writing Down dicated words
It worked better than a school
Struggling our way out of a belief system
"I need you to prescribe me some medicine"
Obession to court
Power outage in the metro rail
Reaching the other end
"Tell us what he was reading"
Why factual memory is safer than episodic memory
Talking about memories
How do I recall?
Am I in pain?
Final words
Pages / Length: 4 Hours 24 minutes
*Notes progress: started / finished / published on
*How I discovered / Who recommended
Found via Audible as a included with audible+ subscription
*Impression / big Ideas:
Really fascinating insight into the mind of a severly autistic young man and how he experienced his difficulties when he was not able to verbally communicate this at the time.
I really enjoyed this book as well written and vivid descriptions of his experiences as well as giving insight into how his behaviour may have appeared unsually but made sense when he explained it, even though he was not able to at the time.
Overall this personal persepctive of sever autism is highly illumunating and very similiar to the Naoki Higashida's The reason I jump.
Opening line “Right now I am thinking of about a mirror.’
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