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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437645303321

Autore

Mukhopadhyay Tito Rajarshi

Titolo

Teaching myself to see / / Tito Mukhopadhyay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2021

[Brooklyn, NY] : , : Punctum Books, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781953035332

9781953035325

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

616.85882

Soggetti

Autism - Psychological aspects

Visual perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from content provider.

Nota di contenuto

One · 13. Joining Up Fragments · 15  -- Two · 21. Call that Hyper-vision · 23  -- Three · 27. I Believe I Saw  · 29 -- Four · 35. I Saw a Story in the Sun  · 37 -- Five · 43. That Darkness That I See... · 45 -- Six · 49. Erasing the Extras: Hypo-vision · 51 -- Seven · 57. Let Shadows Lead · 59 -- Eight · 63...Where Seeing Isn’t Enough · 65 -- Nine · 69. Cataloging Faces · 71 -- Ten · 77. Let the Flow Be · 79 -- Eleven · 85. There Is More to a Day · 87 -- Twelve · 93. Seeing through Smells and Sentiments... · 95 -- Thirteen · 103. Seeing Enough... · 105 Fourteen · 111. The Half-seen · 113 -- Fifteen · 119. Billboards! · 121 -- Afterword · 127

Sommario/riassunto

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.