academy-award winning film, Rain Man, which brought a rare condition to the world’s attention. A few individuals that might happen to be savants may be walking pass by us; may it be a friend, a relative, or a stranger, and without our knowledge of it, that they might have gifts that are not found in an average human individual. Are they superhuman? Do they have super powers? No, they do not. They simply have this rare condition known as the Savant Syndrome. Although savants are people with serious mental
recently found out about – though find simply amazing – are the people that have the condition called savant syndrome. Savant syndrome is an extremely rare condition in which a person with various mental disabilities demonstrates one or a few of really special skills and are able to do things that are, safe to say, out of the ordinary. For example, as early as 1789, the case of Thomas Fuller, savant with lightning calculating abilities, was reported by Rush. It was established that Fuller couldn’t