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	<title>Comments on: Neurophenomenology: 3 books in quick review</title>
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		<title>By: Janis</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m simultaneously attracted and annoyed by books like these, I have to admit.  I only learned within the last few years that the weird spells I&#039;ve had since I was a kid were down to TLE ... and that I show the whole Geschwind spectrum in living color.  It explained a lot -- why words and numbers aren&#039;t substantially different in my head, why my memory stinks, why I can achieve functional literacy in a foreign language in almost no time (fluency still requires immersion and hence money and free time, neither of which  have a lot of), and why mathematics always went down like water.  It also explains the annoying stuff like why I need such a vast amount of sleep, suffer diarrhea of the keyboard, and why I&#039;ve got NO fuse to speak of much less a short one.

I guess I prefer these sorts of books when they are first-person accounts at least.  I&#039;d heard about TLE a long time ago, but literally had no clue whatsoever that it had anything to do with me because it was always this sensationalist lurid account of someone who runs outside the house with no clothes on and thinks they see God.  It wasn&#039;t until I read a first-person account of it by someone who had it -- not filtered through some chump journalist who belonged on the Weekly World News -- that I realized it was the same thing I had.  I was diagnosed afterwards.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m simultaneously attracted and annoyed by books like these, I have to admit.  I only learned within the last few years that the weird spells I&#8217;ve had since I was a kid were down to TLE &#8230; and that I show the whole Geschwind spectrum in living color.  It explained a lot &#8212; why words and numbers aren&#8217;t substantially different in my head, why my memory stinks, why I can achieve functional literacy in a foreign language in almost no time (fluency still requires immersion and hence money and free time, neither of which  have a lot of), and why mathematics always went down like water.  It also explains the annoying stuff like why I need such a vast amount of sleep, suffer diarrhea of the keyboard, and why I&#8217;ve got NO fuse to speak of much less a short one.</p>
<p>I guess I prefer these sorts of books when they are first-person accounts at least.  I&#8217;d heard about TLE a long time ago, but literally had no clue whatsoever that it had anything to do with me because it was always this sensationalist lurid account of someone who runs outside the house with no clothes on and thinks they see God.  It wasn&#8217;t until I read a first-person account of it by someone who had it &#8212; not filtered through some chump journalist who belonged on the Weekly World News &#8212; that I realized it was the same thing I had.  I was diagnosed afterwards.</p>
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