Kim Peek

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What if Kim Peek joined WP?

Who's Kim Peek?

Tim

I heard he is not autistic but, ah, never mind.

now THAT would be cool, i have seen him on a discovery health channel documentry, they said he was an autistic savant. but when i seen him on tv i did see some asperger's behaviors because he had not many friends and he "stimmed" at the college (sang) when he was asked by some professors and students about history.

i really think he would feel comfy here at wrongplanet.net maybe someone can do research on it like find a message board on him on discovery and suggest the site???

I hate to say it, but the lack of social skills is an AUTISTIC trait, and where it gets its name from. Autos=self. The stimming is ALSO an autistic trait.

Those are two of the reasons why AS is considered a form of autism. There is overlap.

Kim peek DOES seem better than raymond on rainman(which is supposed to be based loosely on him), but not SO much better as to be considered AS.

It WOULD be interesting, and I, for one, would probably be fine with it. I doubt it will happen though.

Steve

Old person and newbie - so where can I find this guy - on the telly? Give me a break, I have a lot of catching up to do.
Cheers
http://whitterer-autism.blogspot.com

Kim peek? I saw him on a news program, talk program, and one documentary was done about him. That was it. He isn't usually on.

Steve

If Kim Peek were to join, I could see him contributing his wealth of knowledge to the Politics/Philosophy/Religion forum.

He has some degree of mental retardation, which might be what impairs his social skills, sintead of autism. On Wikipedia I read that he has one hemisphere of his brain instead of two, and that that is what makes him have such a large memory, not autism.

I wouldn't doubt!

Kim Peek is not diagnosed with an ASD (although that's no guarantee he isn't ASD since in many respects he certainly seems to be).

" Kim Peek was born on November 11, 1951. He had an enlarged head, with an encephalocele, according to his doctors. An MRI shows, again according to his doctors, an absent corpus callosum — the connecting tissue between the left and right hemispheres; no anterior commissure and damage to the cerebellum. Only a thin layer of skull covers the area of the previous encephalocele."

That guy is absolutely amazing, although he in fact isn't autistic. I saw a video of him on YouTube, and it showed how he can remember nearly EVERYTHING he has ever observed. He can recall every note of every piece of music he has ever heard, and give the title, artist/composer, and year from just hearing a few notes. He also remembers the number of every freeway in the entire country, and other similar information.

Kim's memory is incredible. I have met him a few times and it is exhausting to spend even a few minutes with him. He is so absorbed in his nonstop mental gamery that he is usually capable of little else. He is not autistic and the reference to his lack of a corpus callosum in his brain is mentioned in his father's book about him.

Jerry Newport aka The Whale

Yeah, xon said wikipedia said he only had one hemisphere. A corpus callosum would be stupid and meaningless in such a case anyway.

Steve