Savant's (Sar'vont's) are very interesting too, they are mentally handicapped, yet have genius in a specific field.
I heard a story of a couple who fostered a handicapped kid, and the woman bought a piano, and this kid was blind, & dumb.
Anyway, they saw a piano going really cheap, and bought it, and she would sit the kid down, and press each of his fingers on the keys, without much success.
To cut a long story short, one night, they had just settled into bed, and they could hear music, the wife said to the husband, 'Are you sure you switched the TV off before you went to be'? and he said, 'I think so, but I will go and check'.
And heres that kid, pumping out extremely complex classical music, better than any classical pianist. All he had to do was hear the song once, and he could play it perfectly, without one bum note.
It was an incrediable story. (on 60 Minutes a few years ago)
14/05/2006
Sailing The Great Barrier Reef.