Combining memoir with history of eccentricity, Not Even Wrong is a haunting personal journey into the borderlands of neurology – a moving meditation on what is ‘normal’, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms.” This is a unique book: examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical history, Collins’ quest to understand autism takes him from English churchyards to the Seattle labs of Microsoft. But research couldn’t prepare Collins for his most shocking discovery: that his own two-year-old son Morgan has autism too. “When Paul Collins started to research Peter the Wild Boy, the feral child of King George I’s court, it became evident that Peter was probably one of the first recorded cases of what is known today as autism. Thank you to my study buddy Maria who lent me this book.
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