The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks The Silence Of Autism - Hardcover

Mukhopadhyay, Tito Rajarshi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559706996 ISBN 13: 9781559706995

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

A collection of autobiographical prose and poetry by a virtually nonverbal child with autism shares his diagnosis at the age of three, his mother's efforts to teach him how to write, and his philosophical perspectives on the experiences of living in an autistic mind and body. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay was diagnosed in early childhood with severe or low functioning non-verbal autism. He communicates primarily through writing and has learned to develop his reading, writing, and thinking abilities. The national organization Autism Speaks sponsored Tito and his mother, Soma, to come to the United States so he could participate in scientific trials. Tito is now an accomplished writer. He lives in Austin, Texas.

From Publishers Weekly:

Now 15 years old, the Bengali boy known as "Tito" wrote the texts collected in this book between the ages of eight and 11. That fact would be remarkable in itself, given their exquisite beauty and concision in describing the world of their author ("the cobweb of uncertainty remained"), but Tito's severe autism, diagnosed when he was three, makes them little short of miraculous. Tito's mother Soma taught him to write in Bengali and in English by working with him intensively over years. While there have been skeptics of Tito's writing ability (as documented in 60 Minutes and Good Morning America features), the experience of reading the book together with testimony from psychiatrist Lorna Wing convinces that Tito wrote it himself. It documents, with patient and poetic clarity, the experience of not fitting in, of finding the world beautiful, of having trouble making oneself understood-in short, of life as most people experience it.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1559706996
• ISBN 13: 9781559706995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224