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<blockquote data-quote="Saturlight" data-source="post: 280881" data-attributes="member: 233652">Fascinated by these people who are mentally subnormal but have very special skills, mostly artisitic.A programme broadcast in the early 1980s showed some of these people. One a blind man never taught the piano could play by ear.Another a retarded boy who could do fantastic drawings of buildings.Another a man who could not add 4 plus 9, but if you asked him what day the 14th October 1999 fell on, he'd immediately say a THURSDAY. He was never wrong, even with dates like 1787, or 1920, or ahead like 3422.A professor in maths was asked to calculate the same &quot;sums&quot; and the autistic man always beat him to it. just as fast as the dates were read out.Amazing. He's doing it in his head, but how?<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite14" alt=":-doh" title="DOH!&nbsp; &nbsp; :-doh" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-doh" />!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saturlight, post: 280881, member: 233652"] Fascinated by these people who are mentally subnormal but have very special skills, mostly artisitic. A programme broadcast in the early 1980s showed some of these people. One a blind man never taught the piano could play by ear. Another a retarded boy who could do fantastic drawings of buildings. Another a man who could not add 4 plus 9, but if you asked him what day the 14th October 1999 fell on, he'd immediately say a THURSDAY. He was never wrong, even with dates like 1787, or 1920, or ahead like 3422. A professor in maths was asked to calculate the same "sums" and the autistic man always beat him to it. just as fast as the dates were read out. Amazing. He's doing it in his head, but how?:-DOH! [/QUOTE]

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