One of the first films I remember watching (must have been around 10 or so)
Its one of those media icons everyone refers to when they think of autism and because there was so little awareness of it in the UK, there was this perception that autistic people had these amazing superpowers like counting cocktail stick and memorizing phone books. I can barely remember what I did yesterday.
One of the first films I remember watching (must have been around 10 or so)
Its one of those media icons everyone refers to when they think of autism and because there was so little awareness of it in the UK, there was this perception that autistic people had these amazing superpowers like counting cocktail stick and memorizing phone books. I can barely remember what I did yesterday.
I memorise everything except conversations and people. At one place I worked it was quicker to memorise the 55,000 item stores list than keep having to look it up. If you give me a pile of magazines, I can memorise all the photos within them and if you show me one of the pictures, I can tell you which magazine it was from and where on the page it was - like I've mentally photographed each page sequentially in my head.
When watching techy programs, my wife says there's no need for a commentary - I know all the facts & details in more depth (and accuracy) than the presenters.
It was very useful in work - like memorising all the 74xx and 4xxx logic chip pin-outs so I could throw circuits together quickly.
I had a brain injury 6 years ago which has damaged my capabilities somewhat - but there are still moments when I surprise myself.
I watched it a few rimes recently and the scene with the other people is where I see the variations. Dustin Hoffman exaggerated many traits of a fully Savant autistic individual whereas that appears full on the spectrum and not how everyone has only certain traits/markers on the spectrum and at varying levels.
