Nine Lives: The worlds of nine neurodiverse people are imaginative and rich

Nine Minds
Daniel Tammet (Wellcome Collection)

How do you see inside the mind of someone else, how they really experience the world? Often, our mental shortcuts let us assume that everyone encounters it as we do.

But they don’t: we all experience the world differently. And that is where reading or listening to other people’s stories helps. In Nine Minds: Inner lives on the spectrum, Daniel Tammet, himself autistic, creates narrative portraits of nine neurodiverse people, setting out…