Daniel Paul Tammet (born 31 January 1979) is a writer with high-functioning autistic savant syndrome. His bestselling 2006 memoir Born On A Blue Day was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association. Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was named one of France's bestselling books of 2009 by the Express magazine in its March 2010 edition.
Tammet was born and raised in East London, the eldest of nine children. "Tammet" means "oak tree" in Estonian and "oak trees" in Finnish. At age twenty-five he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (a high-functioning form of autism) by the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University.
When Tammet finished Secondary School instead of going onto higher education, like his parents had anticipated, he began looking for job opportunities, on the grounds that he "was never comfortable with the idea of going on to university".
After one week's training he was given his assignment: an English-teaching placement in Lithuania. He taught English lessons to Lithuanian women there, returning to the UK a year later. In 2002 Tammet created the website Optimnem.
Tammet was born and raised in East London, the eldest of nine children. "Tammet" means "oak tree" in Estonian and "oak trees" in Finnish. At age twenty-five he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (a high-functioning form of autism) by the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University.
When Tammet finished Secondary School instead of going onto higher education, like his parents had anticipated, he began looking for job opportunities, on the grounds that he "was never comfortable with the idea of going on to university".
After one week's training he was given his assignment: an English-teaching placement in Lithuania. He taught English lessons to Lithuanian women there, returning to the UK a year later. In 2002 Tammet created the website Optimnem.
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