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Daniel Tammet - The Boy With The Incredible Brain [5/5]

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Wikipedia - Daniel Tammet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet

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  • Every time I start to think I'm an intelligent person, Daniel puts me in my place.

  • He is the next step in evolution

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  • @liveandletdie Just to correct you, 1 in 100 people have autism. Usually running down the males. It has something to do with testosterone and all that jazz.

  • which one is more brilliant him or rudiger?

  • so they teach the most intricate dialect human's speak..next to a fucking geyser? For christ's sake.

  • Right im of to have baseballs thrown at my head untill something happens.

  • smart is very sexy on a man. except bill gates. he cannot pull off sexy nerd AT ALL! i love his stuff though, NO HOMO!

  • @Kinetical100 (continued) ability to fixate on one particular subject or problem for quite as much time as he can which impacts the rate at which I can learn something.

    Daniel is extremely lucky. He is certainly autistic, and also suffers from epilepsy, both of which are usually extremely crippling. In my case, I don't have epilepsy, but my Asperger's component does make it difficult for me in social situations.

  • @Kinetical100 I have Asperger's and although I'm nowhere near Daniel's abilities, I can certainly identify with/understand what he does in his mental processes, as I do many similar things in my own mind. For example, like Daniel, I'm also synesthetic and I'm able to use this to my advantage when remembering words, names, locations, and music, and like Daniel, I am very good with foreign languages. However, I'm not as severe as Daniel is either on the autism spectrum, therefore, I lack the

  • he would of aced my french class in hi school

  • @livedandletdie Smart and intelligence are two different things. Picking up on things is a part of using methods (which can determine effectiveness). So, in essence in the terms of comparing gaining knowledge and being smart, you are right.

  • Do people with aspergers syndrome usually learn faster/better than non-aspergers?

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