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

Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay (Author)
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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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This book is indeed amazing, shocking too and forces us to reconsider the condition of the deeply autistic. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars must read if you have non-verbal people with Autism in your life, Mar 4 2012
This review is from: The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism (Paperback)
The MindTree is a must read for anyone-parent or professional that is involved with non-verbal people with Autism. Unlike other disabilites people with Autism understand so much more than can be tested. Tito proved that by writing this book. I found this book insightful in how the autistic mind works. It made me a better Educational Assistant supporting students with Autism.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Extremly touching, July 6 2004
This review is from: The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks The Silence Of Autism (Hardcover)
I loved Tito every moment I read the book and have immense respect for the dedication, persistence and effort of his mother Soma. She seems to be a very strong woman to handle it all alone. But I have to mention this that I hated the part where Tito writes he was hit hard until he paid attention. I have seen and heard of many successful people who cannot ever forget their childhood abuse by their parents even though they were for good reasons.This is a very wrong concept used earlier and is not encouraged any more by many many people these days. Even though hitting might prove right for some reason it does a permanent damage to one's inner self.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The book that will change your perception of "normal" life, Feb 16 2004
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N. Ramanathan "LineIntegral" (Cleveland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks The Silence Of Autism (Hardcover)
My brother's daughter is a an autist child of similar age to Tito. This book has so emotionally moved me that I do not have Tito's genius to express them in words.

I understand that one child in every 250 born could be an autist. Then it is a must that the rest 249 must read this book.

Simply amazing and I wish a very happy life for Tito with the fullest kindness and consideration from humanity at large - the least I can wish for the author.

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