![]() Sacks, maybe because he knows the end is near, can be boyishly silly, too, gigglingly telling a story about sticking his willy into a bowl of jelly to cool a night-time erection. ![]() ![]() He debunked the stereotype that people with autism didn’t have an inner life, she says – and demystified conditions like hers and Tourette syndrome. A friend with autism describes his approach as a clinician, getting inside the heads of people with neurological differences. What he is doing looks like a kind of extreme empathy, feeling his way into the animal. Still, for me, the standout moment of the film is Sacks at a zoo, crouched in front of a chimpanzee enclosure: face pressed against the glass, nose to nose with a chimp, mirroring its movements, twisting his lips, becoming simian. ![]()
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