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oapen-20.500.12657-466032022-07-21T14:00:19Z Teaching Myself To See Mukhopadhyay, Tito autism, auto-anthropology, neurodiversity, vision, perception, DSM-V bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MJ Clinical & internal medicine::MJN Neurology & clinical neurophysiology::MJNA Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome bic Book Industry Communication::V Health & personal development::VF Family & health::VFJ Coping with personal problems::VFJB Coping with illness & specific conditions Teaching Myself to See deals with Tito’s struggles to participate in a world full of visual details. As a person with autism, Tito is visually selective, processing the myriad of details seeping in through the eye rather than the whole. Tracing Tito’s experiences to learn to see in his own, “hyper-visual” way, through art, through magazines, through everyday life, Teaching Myself to See is a work of auto-anthropology, capturing in words, sentences, paragraphs, poems, a way of seeing that might seem so bewildering that doctors and psychologists told his mother he wouldn’t be able to think. This book proves otherwise. By teaching us to look through his eyes, Tito shows us the miracle and immense complexity of sight, of neuro-atypicals and neuro-typicals alike. 2021-02-09T12:00:51Z 2021-02-09T12:00:51Z 2021 book 9781953035325 9781953035332 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46603 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0303.1.00.pdf punctum books Ecologies Book 10.21983/P3.0303.1.00 10.21983/P3.0303.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781953035325 9781953035332 ScholarLed Ecologies Book 136 Brooklyn, NY open access
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Teaching Myself to See deals with Tito’s struggles to participate in a world full of visual details. As a person with autism, Tito is visually selective, processing the myriad of details seeping in through the eye rather than the whole. Tracing Tito’s experiences to learn to see in his own, “hyper-visual” way, through art, through magazines, through everyday life, Teaching Myself to See is a work of auto-anthropology, capturing in words, sentences, paragraphs, poems, a way of seeing that might seem so bewildering that doctors and psychologists told his mother he wouldn’t be able to think. This book proves otherwise. By teaching us to look through his eyes, Tito shows us the miracle and immense complexity of sight, of neuro-atypicals and neuro-typicals alike.
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