Newmark knows that he is not typical. He tends to interpret things literally, and when he was younger other people often confused him. In 1972, while still a college student, he read Language in Thought and Action, the classic book on communication by S. I. Hayakawa, and it helped him understand himself better. “All of a sudden I’m thinking, ‘It can’t be that everyone else has a problem. It has to be me,’” he says.
Source: Wired
