Autistic Superstars - Amazing Pianist

A blind severely autistic man, Derek, is known as the Human ipod. By the age of four his family realised that after hearing a song only once he could play it perfectly on the piano. Now, 25 years later Derek has a repertoire of well over 20,000 songs that he can play instantly from memory. In this clip he is taking requests from the audience at a concert set out to give the limelight to some severely autistic people.

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[WeegeeFromSpace]

the 1 disliker shall go to hell

[karaokeozz]

mind blowing i have worked with a person with server autisim so i thin all people that have a autistic talent no matter how big or small it is great to see

karaokeozz

[TheCocotoo]

@LightShowerss Not true, most do have a talent of some kind.

[LightShowerss]

i think this makes autistic people feel like shit if they DON'T have a talent. because most don't.

[BoulderSholders]

he,s like yeah iv got autism, whats your problem :)

[mariegirlnz]

My 4yr old son has Aspergers, my mind boggles as to how his memory works. I have worked out that it takes him approx 4 weeks to do or read something every day to have it memorized. He has a borrowed book on dinosaurs, after reading the names of them at bedtime every night, after 4 weeks he started reading to me!!

[Altair565]

0:17 What's up with the music sheet. Isn't he blind?

[Madlie777]

awesome !

[1996Coaster]

@toymasheenSH true, true.

[toymasheenSH]

@1996Coaster he mad

[1996Coaster]

@toymasheenSH Nope, we got 1 bastard now.