"It devastated my logical brain, and it up ended the world as i had known it," she says. "I am not a broken version of some some one else is normal. I am my normal." She adds that artistic people maybe different from non artistic people, but we are not broken.
John Elder Robison is a gifted sound engineer whose rare ability to understand machines propelled him to work with the likes of Kiss and Diana Ross. But the one thing he always felt was lacking was his ability to understand people emotionally. In an effort to see if he could change that, he volunteered to participate in an experimental brain study.
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