The Black Knights

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In England an armoured figured out how to build carbon fibre armour by putting manure into his raw steel. It was primitive but extremely effective. Armour made out of Carbon Fibre steel can cut through pig iron like butter. One of the interesting side effects was the armour was Black.

For 30 years the Black Knights roamed England and were considered invincable. It is from this period that the concept of an invincable Black Knight came from.

Although it is possible the Armourer was autistic it isn't important. It is just a show of how one smart person can elevate an entire society. Whatever made this armourer good was contained within the society and made his town more populous. Some of his traits survive to this day.

I think it is the job of every Savant to try to make society a better place. Being a Savant is a gift that has its problems but it is a gift regardless. It should be harnessed to show the solutions no one else can see.

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There have many people through history that came up with something so innovative that they were ridiculed and persecuted by the rest of society. The one factor I can see is that they did it anyway. The opinion of the masses didn't sway them at all. Aspie? I don't know but it's certainly possible.

Too bad I"m not a savant. How many of us are?

Supposedly 1 in 10 Aspies is considered Savant. However it is my opinion all Aspies are more intelligent than they would have been if they were NT. When thinking Aspies make more complete use of their brains. (This is visible in brain scans.)

Nah, savant syndrome has to be more rare than that. The strong talents I see around here seem to be more a matter of intelligence, interest, and focus. Savant syndrome seems t happen when somebody has a brain that's practically built to do something, and being as a result a hundred times better than everybody else at it... Maybe Aspie talent is a weak sort of savant syndrome--it has the same characteristics, in that somebody with a natural talent and fascination for something becomes an expert at it--but savant syndrome is usually quite a striking characteristic, because that one skill is so very strong, both compared to the person's other skills and to other people's skills in that area. The general Aspie brain wiring isn't nearly so specialized... not that there aren't true Aspie savants; just that most of us aren't.

Pet peeve about savant syndrome: People dismissing savant skills as unimportant because they are the result of neurology... As if they weren't real skills, or as if other skills didn't involve neurology too! Hmph.