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Daniel is born.
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Life of Daniel Tammet
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Daniel's brother, Lee is born.
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Daniel is brought to a specialist who could look at why he was acting so different.
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Daniel is put into a children's nursery
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Daniel has his first seizure, but then never has another one again.
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Daniel begins school.
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Daniels first sister, Claire, is born.
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Daniel refuses to be a part of any social games at his nursery.
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Daniel's second brother, Steven, is born.
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Daniels third brother, Steven, is born.
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Daniel starts to learn other languages, besides English.
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Daniel's younger twin sisters are born, Maria and Natasha.
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Daniel realizes that he is different from the other kids, but he can't understand why.
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Daniel's father slips into depression and is sick for many months.
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Daniel's sister is born, Anna-Marie, his seventh sibling.
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Daniel starts secondary school.
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Daniel's first friend, Babak, moves to his town.
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Daniel meets another friend, Rehan.
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Daniel learns how to play chess, a great escape for him.
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Daniel's final sibling is born, his youngest sister, Shelley.
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Daniel has his first crush, and realizes that he is gay.
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Daniel graduates with very high grades for somebody with autism.
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Daniel travels to France and lives with a family for 10 days.
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Daniel moves to Lithuania to be a volunteer English teacher.
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Daniel moves back from Lithuania after living there for about 9 months.
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Daniel meets his partner, Neil, online.
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Daniel moves in with partner and his cat.
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Daniel meets Neils family, and they are very supportive.
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Daniel creates his website Optimnem, a site for people to go to in order to learn a new language.
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Daniel beats the Guinness world record for number of digits of Pi memorized.
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Daniel and Neil's cat dies, and the couple is very torn up.
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Daniel is a part of an hour long show recording his journey across the US and his meeting Kim Peek, another savant much like himself.
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Daniel memorizes the Icelandic language in just a week.
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Daniel meets an expert scientist who learns more about Daniels brain.
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Daniel is asked to be on the David Letterman show.
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Daniels show that he was a part of his aired in London.
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THhis is where the book ends. Daniel is happily living with his partner Neil, and learning new things about himself everyday.