Here's a story I just found...about an autistic man who's been building complicated structures out of legos. Of course I immediatly thought of Jeremiah, even before I found out that he'd named the structure "Urville".
www.boingboing.net/2006/03/27/gilles_trahin_a_sava.html
www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/gilles.cfm
A real-life Jeremiah?
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Charles Timewaster
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wow! check out the guy's site! Autistic or not, this guy is amazing! I am absolutely humbled by his drawing ability (and I view myself as a comeptant drawerer-erer...er....)Amazing detail!
Although not the same form of autism as Jerimiah has ...
~...with a floating smile and a light blue sponge...~
Amazing... absolutely amazing.
Maybe the next step would be the countrysides and surrounding areas.
(This guy draws better than most "artists" that I have seen draw.)
Maybe the next step would be the countrysides and surrounding areas.
(This guy draws better than most "artists" that I have seen draw.)
Have you hugged your arghule today?
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
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If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
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It's 4:19...
gotta minute?
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
________________________________________
If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
_______________________________________
It's 4:19...
gotta minute?
Re: A real-life Jeremiah?
Wow.Charles Timewaster wrote:Here's a story I just found...about an autistic man who's been building complicated structures out of legos. Of course I immediatly thought of Jeremiah, even before I found out that he'd named the structure "Urville".
www.boingboing.net/2006/03/27/gilles_trahin_a_sava.html
www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/gilles.cfm
Just wow. That is amazing. I was in total awe whilst watching that video.
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That's Asperger's Syndrome for you: autistic geniuses.Cheval wrote:Amazing... absolutely amazing.
Maybe the next step would be the countrysides and surrounding areas.
(This guy draws better than most "artists" that I have seen draw.)
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I don't know too much about it, are they geniueses despite or because of their Asperger's Syndrome? Or does their autism merely make it easy for that inbred intelligence to perpetuate itself?Loremaster wrote:That's Asperger's Syndrome for you: autistic geniuses.Cheval wrote:Amazing... absolutely amazing.
Maybe the next step would be the countrysides and surrounding areas.
(This guy draws better than most "artists" that I have seen draw.)
