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An
autistic savant (historically described as an
idiot savant) is a person with both
autism and
savant syndrome. Savant syndrome describes a person having a severe developmental or mental handicap with extraordinary
mental abilities not found in most people. This means a lower than average general intelligence (IQ) but very high narrow intelligence in one or more fields. Savant syndrome skills involve striking feats of memory and arithmetic calculation and sometimes include unusual abilities in art or music. Savant syndrome is sometimes abbreviated as "savantism", and individuals with the syndrome are often nicknamed
savants. This can be a source of confusion since a
savant can also mean a person of learning, especially one of great knowledge in a particular subject.
Abilities
Savant syndrome is usually recognized during early childhood as coincident with other developmental abnormalities; the plurality of cases occur in children with
autism. Males with savant syndrome outnumber females by roughly 6:1—slightly higher than the disparity for autism spectrum disorders.
Most autistic savants have extensive mental abilities called
splinter skills(External Link
). Why autistic savants are capable of these astonishing feats isn't quite clear. Some savants have obvious
neurological abnormalities (such as the lack of
corpus callosum in
Kim Peek's brain). Many savants are known to have abnormalities in the left hemisphere of the brain.
There are only about 100
recognized prodigious savants in the world.
Famous autistic savants
- Alonzo Clemons, American clay sculptor.
- Tony DeBlois, blind American musician.
- Leslie Lemke, blind American musician.
- Jonathan Lerman, American artist.
- Thristan Mendoza, Filipino marimba prodigy.
- Derek Paravicini, blind British musician.
- Kim Peek, basis for the 1988 fictional film Rain Man, although diagnosis has changed.
- James Henry Pullen, gifted British carpenter.
- Matt Savage, U.S. autistic jazz prodigy.
- Henriett Seth-F., Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer and artist.
- Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant.
- Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist.
- Richard Wawro, Scottish artist.
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