My Travels with Oliver Sacks

My great take away from reading sacks was to learn that wrongness in complex systems (e.g. the mind or the body) is easier to define than rightness. Collect enough examples of wrongness and you are on the way to mapping that system.

> Oliver wrote that an aspect of my Tourette’s was being fascinated by the “acoustic contours” of words and language.

How beautiful. This resonates with my own experience of super-mild Tourettes. I am unable to get through a day without muttering certain words. My current favourites are 'diphthong', 'Sputnik' and 'Roscoff' (a place in France but also a type of watch). I am unable to get to sleep without saying the word 'Mongoose' at least once.

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