Urban Arson » autism http://www.urbanarson.com/blog Aaron Burns everything. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:43:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Interview with an Autistic Savant http://www.urbanarson.com/blog/2009/01/08/interview-of-a-high-functioning-autistic-savant/ http://www.urbanarson.com/blog/2009/01/08/interview-of-a-high-functioning-autistic-savant/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:01:20 +0000 Aaron Burns http://www.urbanarson.com/blog/?p=450 danieltammet1

Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant with the incredible distinction of being gifted with numbers and language while remaining social at the same time. He set a record by reciting 22,514 digits of Pi, and learned the Icelandic language in just 7 days.

Read all about it. (The New Scientist)

There is also a documentary about him called “The Boy with the Incredible Brain”

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