Ever Met an Autistic Savant?

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I have savant abilities with music. I can listen to a song and play it back and i can make up songs easily. I play lots of insturments and have wrote lots of songs since i was a little kid. some of my music is played on the local radio stations. a lot of music i make just seems to play in my head and i dont know where it comes from. Pretty much everything i do i dont know how to do things until im doing it. it makes it very fusterating to explain anything to people and i cant teach people what i know. I do the same thing with math. I know anwsers to questions but i cant do the process to find out the anwser. I dont know how i know things, but i do. I cant do big equasions very good though.

Great music Carl.

Savant just means that one portion of your IQ is several standard deviations over the rest of your IQ. Someone's subscore could be 120 for a certain variable, whereas all of the others will be in the mentally ret*d range; this one example equates to an Autistic Savant. I haven't seen someone with this cognitive pattern "officially", but it's supposed to be around 10% of all those with Autistic Disorder--2/3 have mental retardation (with strengths in certain areas many times, just not as pronounced as Savants), and the other third have a normal IQ score.

Some people erroneously attach it to the associated special skills that can occur with Autistic Disorder (Asperger's too, Hans had a child who was a calculator); hyperlexia, calendar calculation, eidetic memory, etcetera.

Personally, I'd attribute the near perfect memory nearly everyone with AS/HFA has on their topic of interest to be a special skill.

I have been called a savant before. It is because of my art. I am getting to be a famous artist and was just in Dog Fancy magazine. Also, I am going to be in a book because of my savant-like skills called "Artism Anew" and if you want to see my artwork on that site go to www.artismtoday.com and I am in the second page of their gallery with the bird in the sunset. I also have my own website with over 300 designs go to www.crittersonthings.com and you could also see more info about me with links to other articles I have been in- "about the artist."

No, yet I have heard about some.

I know of someone with a reputation for being able to give the day of the week for any date. It's many years since I've spoken to him and that was before I was aware either of autism/Asperger's as a quest for myself, or of this chap's peculiar ability but with hindsight I can easily see him as a candidate for the spectrum (including "the look") whose alleged calendar calculation is a savant streak.

I have number savant abilities - I can multiply 2, 3, 4 digit numbers in my head within seconds, can tell if a number is prime or composite within a few seconds, very quick counter, good at finding patterns, etc. However, as far as having artistic abilities, I'm the complete opposite, I have a very hard time learning instruments and am not a good drawer/painter at all.