cyberdad wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
A reason Rain Man is often invalidated is because Kim Peek the main person the charactor was based on was not Autistic. But Peek had numourous Autistic traits. Also the the Rain Man charactor was a composit of 3 people, 2 of them are autistic.The character would likely be diagnosed with ASD today.
Given that Sheldon, a stereotyped character on the "Big Bang Theory" also displays autistic traits doesn't mean he would be diagnosed with ASD. Kim Peek has acquired brain injury which gave him savant like skills.
I hate to argue the point, but it was most likely a cast of autism and fg syndrome... while he had fg syndrome and the brain injury, neither of those precludes autism, and they are not mutually exclusive diagnoses... mr peek was diagnosed and autistic savant, which (by the nature of the diagnosis) is also autistic
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