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• 1 media/tuscany-984014_960_720.jpg 2017-11-14T19:26:25-08:00 Creating and Maintaining Relationships with TLE and Related Disorders 1 An in depth analysis of how TLE and related disorders affect the ability to form and maintain relationships, Franco Magnani, and others with similar disorders. plain 2017-11-14T19:26:25-08:00 Franco became so obsessed with Pontito that it was all he could talk about.  Sacks writes that when Franco spoke of Pontito, he became completely engulfed with the subject as if  he was a child back in his hometown (155).  Furthermore, Sacks writes of Franco’s single-subject conversations and asks “What could be more boring?”(155).  Franco had many friends before his obsession, but because he can only converse on one subject, they became bored and moved on (Sacks 166).  Though this is true, Franco has a wife named Ruth.  Ruth shares Franco’s obsession with Pontito, and she opened a gallery for Franco’s art (Sacks 166). Besides the fact that Franco’s obsessive talking about Pontito turns people away, his condition may inhibit his ability to read social cues and interact with people.  In the article “Tell me how do I feel” Sarah Broicher and colleagues write that people with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) often struggle to communicate and have “interpersonal relations” (118).  In their study regarding TLE it was discovered that patients with TLE were less able to recognize emotions of others, and “interpret emotional expressions and feelings from faces” (Broicher 124).