Way back in December of 2003, Wired Magazine published an article by Steve Silberman called The Key to Genius, in which he discussed the extraordinary gifts of austistic savants. Born with “miswired neurons,” these special individuals with Autism can do amazing things completely outside the range of the ability of ordinary individuals. For […]
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