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1. Wow! Those are some amazing people. Makes you feel kind of sad…

   It’s very interesting however, I never knew that our ability was“suppressed by the left-brain to prevent a potentially overwhelming clamor of unchecked sensory input and internal processing”. So i guess the next time someone tells use to give 100% we can tell them it is scientifically impossible.

   Very cool post, i’ve learned quite a tidbit.

   Jonathan Solichin

   May 24, 01:29 AM #

2. My wife has Multiple Sclerosis and is quadriplegic …

   she is 74 years old and in a nursing home for 10 years.

   Suddenly she began speaking in different languages… I look up the words and she is right or just about about every time

   giving me the words to crossword puzzles before I even finish asking her the question

   reciting words from books, telling me the page number, paragraph, where the commas are, …. author, publication date ….

   saying what, while we watch Television, the actor is going to say … before they say it …….

   music ……. just about everything ……….

   Other times she is completely quiet and doesn’t respond to my questions or it takes … an hour to get the answer … or at other times … she seems as though she is “retarded”

   does this mean she is mentally retarded or savant???????

   Clint Baron

   Dec 24, 05:05 AM #

3. Hey

   I think I am a quantum savant, I understand relativity interplaner displacement atom blah blah blah I could go on forever only the only thing I have ever encountered on the topic is What the Bleep do we know…

   im 21 and currently apprenticing a Quantum Physician… and the only reason is because we had a 5 minute talk in which very few words were discussed

   any ideas?

   Danny Buffett

   Jan 13, 10:20 PM #

4. Where do the “Coolyist” Prodigious Savant gather?

   Thank you: Sysis.

   Sysis

   Feb 20, 03:25 PM #

5. Hello

   My boyfriend of 5 years thinks I’m the worlds biggest idiot, always correcting my words, rolling his eyes because I don’t immediately remember what he’s thinking at the exact moment he’s thinking it and the fact that I’m not worldly and don’t know where places are.

   The few things I have noticed that he criticizes me for is my ability to smell, see and taste things that he does not. He says I’m weird and that there is something wrong with me.

   I have found these senses to be frustrating because everyone in the house complains or makes fun of me due to these senses. I’m frustrated because no one else in the house has them.

   Also in movies, I tend to voice what the actor is going to say before he says it and can usually tell you who did what in the movie before its half way through (murder mysteries, etc). It drives my boyfriend crazy… probably because I ruin the ending for him, but more likely because I’m talking during the movie.

   Anyway, do I have mental issues and should take some type of medication for this (as my boyfriend suggests) or see a shrink? I have OCD and get bored really fast, within seconds but at other things, painting, art, yard work in the garden, I could focus all day. I play video games for a little while, master them and then am so bored I’ll never play the game again. I typically excel in everything I do except short term memory.

   I’m starting to feel like an outcast in my own home and its a very depressing feeling. My brother was diagnosed with Tret syndrome many years ago and at times I notice I tend to twitch my nose and make odd noises with the back area of my throat (done in when I’m alone, except for the nose twitching). I’ve never been diagnosed as having TS, but I wonder if there is a small part of me that might have it.

   BTW, I’ve never blurted out some random word… thank God!

   Thank you

   Donna Hayes

   Nov 26, 10:13 AM #

6. I just learned the term “prodigious savant” last week, and I am 74 years old.

   I was reading newspapers and Bible lessons long before I began kindergarten in September 1941, eight months after my mother died. Three months later, Pearl Harbor took the U.S. into World War II, and both my father and uncle went into the Army, which made my grandmother cry for an entire day.

   So naturally, I read every paper I could get my hands on every day. In the comic strips, I read every single episode of “Superman” because I identified with Clark Kent, and wondered if I could ever become Perry White. I did not realize it for several years, but I learned everything necessary to gather and report news from the battlefront, international events, scientific advances (polio and Jonas Salk), politics, local stuff and feature articles either in print, on the radio or television, including dramatic and documentary scripts.

   It took 41 years, from high school in 1954 until June, 1995, to finish college.

   During those years, I held high-profile jobs as Executive Editor of the Chicago Defender newspaper (when it was published daily), an assistant press secretary to Chicago’s two most famous mayors in the enire world during their terms in office (Jane Byrne and Harold Washington), a public relations representative for the Ford Motor Company in their Chicago region (covering nine midwestern states), a PR rep for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois (setting my own schedule and agenda) and a part-time instructor in journalism, English and keyboarding at three colleges in Chicago and Indiana.

   Privately, I briefly owned a website distributing heavy-duty, superior quality tarpaulins for private yatchs and outdoor assets for commerce and industrial comanies, and drafter a national program to introduce four or eight-hour keyboarding instruction which would produce confidence in millions of young and older students, enabling them to better themselves.
   (However, no governors or anyone in Washington D.C. had ever heard of me, so the proposal was deliberately ignored, and immediately replaced with billions of dollars for public school computers donated by philanthropists.

   In 2009, I finally received a Ph.D. in Education, after getting my Master’s in Journalism. I had actually gone farther than Perry White.

   Am I wrong in assuming that I am a prodigious savant? Three of my former bosses and friends have been impressed enough to use the term “genius” speaking about me, but I am totally dumb with higher math, world affairs, some environmental issues and foreign languages.

   Leroy Thomas

   Leroy Thomas, Ph.D.

   Feb 8, 01:41 AM #

7. Deep in the heart of rural mendocino county, lives a boy with extrodinary musical talent. He is a person with an autism diagnosis who has been mainstreamed and protected by a very small community of people. We belive it is time for him to be “seen”. Looking for an advocate to assist in this complicated process. Will you be our champion? If so, prepare to be inspired.

   Delina Quintero

   Dec 4, 02:03 PM #

8. I am Savant that can paint, detect when animals and people are ill or sick with diseases and why. Language is difficult and Facebook has been my God send, but it does cause me to get weary and not paint. Socially I am quirky, I can’t tell when someone is pausing in a conversation, and I often can’t hold back truth, and it can make people very uncomfortable when you blurt out that you know their “mail” or what I call secrets. I often feel like my level of perception is on the same plane as animals, in regard to heighten scenes and being naive. Those with Autism are placed in situations where their senses are over loaded, if they understood what I do, they would not expose many Autistic folks to the environments that cause them to have melt downs. We basically feel and sense things at high levels that our brains are not equipped to handle in our fallen state. Once we enter into Heaven, we will all have very acute ability and be able to handle it because we will not be hindered by the darkness.

   Lisa

   Jun 27, 01:06 AM #