Asperger Savant Examples

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Douglas Richard Hofstadter maybe

I saw the movie "victim of the brain" Its partly a movie and partly a documentaire.
What is saw from Hofstadter i did like, his brain is not average.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

Richard Wawro

https://www.wawro.net/public/www/Richar ... chard.html

yesterday I read an article that said 10 percent of autistic folk have savant skills, but I looked and could not find the source of that claim.

Savant definition varies quite a bit , from "idiot savant" to Savant simply meaning "learned".

I can say I am a language savant ( english language only) , having tested far higher than average on IQ and neurological/psychological tests all my life, but I think the definition of"Savant" you might want to discuss here needs to be better defined so we understand which input you are requesting.

Here is a wiki bio of a very famous autistic savant individual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet

whoops, resurrected thread from 2016!! !! !

Even this is a zombie thread, it got my curiosity going. Here is an article stating that 1 in 10 statistic, still no clue where the numbers were derived or extracted from.
https://www.ssmhealth.com/treffert-cent ... t-syndrome


Oh, OK, found it! Rimland 1978 paper cited here with the 1 in 10 statistic. Just in case anybody else was curious.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677584/