Inside the mind of an autistic savant

Wow, that's cool!

Truly interesting. I was always curious to know what exacly being autistic meant. I knew somewhat what it was, but was never clear on it.
It was a very good read.

Now he can recite thousands of numbers of pi in Icelandic! Cool!

wow with how he put it i totally understood a little part..

like how words rhyme i think is what he means by texture...


i could be mistaken

Nigel gave me a copy of Tammet's Born on a Blue Day. Nigel had read it
and been fascinated not only by Daniel Tammet but by how many parallels
there were between the way Daniel and Nigel's own brother, my son Clive
thought.

Tammet's unique ability to express himself helped the relationship between my
sons and between Clive and me.

Very interesting!

When he started talking about lumpy numbers I thought about synaesthesia and sure enough he mentions it a few lines down.

I've often wondered if people who experience synaesthesia know that they do or if they think everyone experiences the world the way they do.

That's a good question. I suspect that many people, and perhaps most, assume that everyone else experiences the world as they do.

I think so too, Set.

That's one of the things that makes his invented language so interesting; he is obviously aware that he sees things differently.

What if we all see things diffently and we've simply learned to lable what we see as "green" or "blue" because that's the language we've been taught to use.

That's a huge philosophical ball of wax, with some commentators going to the extreme of claiming that reality only exists as a function of language. One of the surest ways of demonstrating that people tend to believe that others perceived the world as they do is through doctrinal religious or political discussions. People with, just for examples, a "christian" viewpoint, or a "conservativ" viewpoint, assume that everyone else who claims a christian or a conservative viewpoint thinks as they do--and yet they will often disagree, and often rather quickly, and sometimes rather bitterly, when they get into a discussion of cases and details. You can see it in the religious and political discussions here.

I've wondered that also.

Really interesting article, I'd like to look for that book he wrote.

Hey! As a kid, when I learned the concept of color blindness and realized we don't all see things the same I would trip out about this. It was an obsession of mine when I was around 8.

"Ok, guys, huddle around."
"See this?" Laying out colored paper.
"What color is this?"
"Red right?"
"Ok, but how do you know that I don't see the color you call blue?"

Luckily the concept of infinity came along ("What do you mean God always existed?") and I stopped bothering people about it.

saw this guy on 60 minutes (or some info show) about a year or so ago

interesting stuff

this stuff is so interesting, last night at the bar this lady called one of my friends an indigo child, im not sure he is but it rekindled my interest in the subject...