Rent Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

This book reflects upon the machinations in the minds of people with Asperger's Syndrome very articulately and effectively. But even more importantly, it depicts the author's abilities and manners of learning to accept his own idiosyncracies and limitations while still developing self-awareness and self-acceptance. He is very aware of his most effective methods for learning and coping, and describes these in a way that encourages the reader's own self reflection. It is a lesson to us all and I highly recommend this book for those who want to learn about autistic people as well as themselves.

For anyone wanting to know more about Savants this book will provide a lot of insight. The author tended to go into painful detail about his thought process. While this detail clearly helps to understand Savants, it became so tedious that I was not willing to finish the book. I gave it three stars because the author certainly got across the intended message of what it is like to live with Savants.