Kaoskadosk said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGTfDf4b5oE
This guy seems more like a savant than the girl. You can see the typical autistic features quite clearly, but the girl seems to be simply very talented. It's also very likely that she started practicing at an early stage, when your brain is the most susceptible to learning.
Also, you can certainly have a normal life as a savant, or even if you're simply autistic. I have Asperger's Syndrome (a high-functional version of Autism, meaning I don't have motory problems) and I'm doing fine. :blob7:
When I look at savants I see them enjoying life far more than we are in all honesty. They aren't bothered by politics and disputes, but take joy in the little things in life. Sure, society may look at them and think "What the hell is his problem?" but most of the time these savants are unaffected, they love their life.
Really? I also have Asperger's Syndrome.
Contrary to what people always think given my love of music, I'm actually no good at it at all, it's just an interest of mine.
I do have problems with fine motor skills though, my handwritting has been about the same in legibility since I learned to write.
It's impossible to say whether the life of someone with AS/Autism/Savantism/whatever is better or worse than that of a normal person, neither party has the experience of the other to compare, but I've always been much happier with the way I was than the way normal people appeared to me. I've always had this feeling that normal people around me were so stupid that it deeply bothered me.
When I was in elementary school, while everyone else played at reccess, I read books. My 5th grade teacher's husband was an EE or something, and she arranged for us to meet one day after school and he showed me an oscilloscope and some stuff, and was unable to teach me very much about electronics that I didn't already know. (Though he did give me some electrical theory books and some components. :icon_biggrin
I could never relate to the other kids, because they had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
Even to this day, I would really die than to live life as a normal person without the gifts and talents that I have.
I have my obstacles, and to a lot of people, I can almost appear retarded because of a lack of certain basic skills, (Like carrying on a simple face to face conversation for example.) but the gifts outweigh the problems to me.
I don't see any reason why musical savants couldn't be the same way. The way that you think and function is just different. You're not interested in the skills you don't have, and those things don't bother you.
