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- Teaching Myself To See
- Book
- 2021
- Published by: Punctum Books
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
summary
Teaching Myself to See deals with Tito’s struggles to participate in a world full of visual details. As a person with autism, Tito is visually selective, processing the myriad of details seeping in through the eye rather than the whole. Tracing Tito’s experiences to learn to see in his own, “hyper-visual” way, through art, through magazines, through everyday life, Teaching Myself to See is a work of auto-anthropology, capturing in words, sentences, paragraphs, poems, a way of seeing that might seem so bewildering that doctors and psychologists told his mother he wouldn’t be able to think. This book proves otherwise. By teaching us to look through his eyes, Tito shows us the miracle and immense complexity of sight, of neuro-atypicals and neuro-typicals alike.
Table of Contents
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- Joining Up Fragments
- pp. 15-20
- Call that Hyper-vision
- pp. 23-26
- I Believe I Saw
- pp. 29-34
- I Saw a Story in the Sun
- pp. 37-42
- That Darkness That I See…
- pp. 45-48
- Erasing the Extras: Hypo-vision
- pp. 51-56
- Let Shadows Lead
- pp. 59-62
- …Where Seeing Isn’t Enough
- pp. 65-68
- Cataloging Faces
- pp. 71-76
- Let the Flow Be
- pp. 79-84
- There Is More to a Day
- pp. 87-92
- Seeing through Smells and Sentiments…
- pp. 95-102
- Seeing Enough…
- pp. 105-110
- The Half-seen
- pp. 113-118
- Billboards!
- pp. 121-126
Additional Information
ISBN
9781953035332
Related ISBN(s)
9781953035325
MARC Record
OCLC
1240533334
Pages
136
Launched on MUSE
2021-04-10
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA
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