Episode 3
By Daniel Tammet. As Daniel faces secondary school, he excels because of his extraordinary memory, but has other difficulties. Read by Paul Panting.
By Daniel Tammet, read by Paul Panting.
Daniel has Savant Syndrome, a rare form of Asperger's. As Daniel faces secondary school, he excels at maths, languages and history because of his extraordinary memory, but has difficulty finding his way about. And yet when he leaves school, he finds the courage to volunteer to go and teach English in Eastern Europe.
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