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Oliver Sacks: There is no standard way of being, or knowing, or perceiving.

There is no standard way of being, or knowing, or perceiving.

Variation is of the essence.

There are an infinite number of ways of being and doing and knowing and remembering.

And there are an infinite number of ways of being healthy.

Oliver Sacks

Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut, but first and foremost a physician and explorer of the human condition. In this clip from a lecture he gave at Vanderbilt University in 1999, he talks about how many different “ways of being” there are.

Oliver Sacks Fdn.

Sacks long was and still is an ally to us.

sacks was one of the first neurologists to get the neurodiversity paradigm. he was so far ahead of so many of his colleagues, then and now.

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