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SAVANTS

• A mix of ability and disability

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• The savants are people who have extraordinary
• abilities that a normal person can not
  understand.
• Savantism is a kind of autism whose symptoms
• appears in childhood .Unfortunately there is no
• diagnosis for it .This mental ability became well
  
• known in the film The Rain Man where Dustin
• Hoffman played successfully the role of an
  autistic
• man. The savants have remarkable social problems
• such as difficulty in relationships and they also
  do
• not understand people thoughts and feelings. But
• these are the problems that a savant faces. Their
  
• abilities are much more outstanding than their
• disabilities.

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• A savant can be a genius in different things. The
  most
• well known ability of the savants is that they
  can
• calculate huge numbers in short time and be very
• good in mathematical things. But savants can do
• more things which are also impressive. For
  example
• Stephen Wiltshire is a living camera as the most
• people call him as he drew a big part of Rome on
  a
• huge paper in an amazing detail after a
  helicopter
• flight. A similar savant example with
  extraordinary
• abilities is Daniel Tammet who is a mathematical
  
• genius who can do massive calculations. His
  special
• abilities appeared when he was four. He knows 9
• languages and can learn a new one in a week. Also
  
• important to mention is that he calculated 22.514
  
• numbers of p in 5

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• hours and 9 minutes without a mistake. As he
  said he did not calculate those numbers but they
  were like shapes In front of his eyes. He does
  extraordinary mathematics but he does not even
  know it. Up to now we have not totally understood
  how the brilliant brain of those miracles work.
  The savants syndrome will help us to understand
  what intelligence is and how it works. The fact
  is that the human brain remains the biggest
  mystery on earth.

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• All information was found in www.youtube.com in
  videos
• Beautiful minds Stephen Wiltshire
• The boy with the incredible brain
• Daniel Tammet-The boy with the incredible brain
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• Daniel Tammet-The boy with the incredible brain
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• Daniel Tammet-The boy with the incredible brain
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• Daniel Tammet-The boy with the incredible brain
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• Daniel Tammet-The boy with the incredible brain
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• Thank you for your interest
• Moschatos Christos