Who is an Autistic Savant?
Autism is spectrum disorder of the Brain which occurs within the first three years of birth and severely incapacitating life long developments which could be mere motor sensory functions, social behaviour or speech disorders which results in them not to be able to do things normally like others like bathing, brushing teeth or walking. They need life long support from someone. Autistic Savant refers to Individuals with autism that have extraordinary skills not seen in ordinary mortals like us. Earlier they were called as Idiot Savants, thanks to Dr Bernard Rimland who changed it to Autistic Savant as it is because of the anatomy and physiology of their brain that you get both sides of super-nature in one person. Kim Peek, the Brainman Kim Peek was born in 1951 with an enlarged head and encepheloceleand the corpus callosum missing. .At the age of 16-20 months, he could memorise books read to him by his father. The peculiar thing about Kim was that he put the books that he had finished re
