Discovery channel 8:00 central...BRAINS

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There is supposed to be a show on tonight about autism and the brain....looked interesting.

I don't know how that translates into GMT.

They showed these back in June or July. For those of you who havn't seen either of them, ( The first show is about Savant Kim Peek, the second is about Kim Peek and Autistic Savant Daniel Tammet) you owe it to yourselves to see both. They are quite interesting.

I believe that both of the shows are over a year old having originally been aired on one of the BBC channels.

None of the shows on are about autism! At 7:00 central is a documentary about Kim Peek (who doesn't have autism but is a savant); the second documentary at 8:00 is a documentary of another savant (who apparently happens to have autism); and the third at 9:00 is a documentary exploring savant abilities in normal people. None of these documentaries focuses on autism.

Oops...not what I thought it was at all.I thought it was going to be about recent research on brains of autistics.They were "interesting" but not what I was looking for,more information about the physiology and functional differences of autistic brain....bummer.