A VIDEO OF AN AUTISTIC SAVANT RARE MENTAL POWERS DEFY EASY EXPLANATION PEOPLE LIKE AUTISTIC SAVANTS ALONZO CLEMENS AND KIM PEEK

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Autistic savants are members of a rare group. Autistic savants are people who have autism and yet have certain remarkable almost unbelievable savant mental abilities that seem to be far beyond the ken of others. Thus autistic savant. Rain Man the movie happened because the screen writer Barry Morrow met Kim Peek in 1984. Morrow could not forget Peek. Kim Peek is one of the most famous autistic savants.



"Considered an expert in about 15 subjects, Peek can instantly recall information ranging from sports and movie trivia to geography and history facts. He reads a book by using one eye to read one page and the other to read the other page and he remembers 95 percent of the information years after reading the book once".




He can't read or write but Alonzo Clemens can create exquisitely accurate clay models of animals. Another amazing autistic savant. Look for yourself.


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Savant skills include:

Music - the piano is the most popular instrument. For example, the skill may be the ability to play the piano without being taught.

Art - such as the ability to draw, paint or sculpt to high standards. For example, Richard Wawro is an autistic savant who is also blind, but his crayon drawings command up to $10,000 each.

Mathematics - for example, the ability to work out complicated sums in their head, or to calendar calculate (for example, work out what day it was on 1 June 1732).

Language - in rare cases, the person may be unusually gifted in languages.

Other skills - such as knowing the time without seeing a clock, untaught mechanical skills, having an unfailing sense of direction or the ability to commit maps to memory.

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