somebody explain to me IDIOT SAVANTS?

Question

what they are, do, how they got that way. etc.

Answer 1

An autistic savant (historically described as idiot savant) is an autistic person with Savant Syndrome. Savant Syndrome describes people with both a severe developmental or mental handicap and extraordinary mental abilities not found in most people. The Savant Syndrome skills involve striking feats of memory and often include arithmetic calculation and sometimes art or music.
Most autistic savants have very extensive mental abilities, called splinter skills. They can memorize facts, numbers, license plates, maps, and extensive lists of sports and weather statistics. Some savants can mentally note and then recall perfectly a very long sequence of music, numbers, or speech. Some, dubbed mental calculators, can do exceptionally fast arithmetic, including prime factorization. Other skills include precisely estimating distances and angles by sight, calculating the day of the week for any given date over the span of tens of thousands of years, and being able to accurately gauge the passing of time without a clock.

Why autistic savants are capable of these astonishing feats is not quite clear. Some savants have obvious neurological abnormalities (such as the absent corpus callosum in Kim Peek's non-autistic brain), but the brains of most savants are anatomically and physiologically normal; at least, there is no abnormality detectable by modern science. Some neurologists (see e.g., Oliver Sacks) theorize that those with savantism utilize an "innate" modular arithmetic to compute such complex problems as what day of the week a distant date (for instance, July 11th, 88182) will fall on.

There are only about 100 recognized prodigious savants in the world.

This article primarily discusses Savant Syndrome.

Savant Syndrome is usually recognized during childhood and is found in children with autism and other developmental difficulties. However it can also be acquired in an accident or illness, typically one that injures or impairs the left side of the brain. There is some research that suggests that it can be induced, which might support the view that unusual savant abilities are latent within all people but are obscured by the normal functioning intellect. By the help of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation researchers are providing empirical evidence for the hypothesis that savant-like skills can be approved in a healthy individual by temporary disruption of the left front part of the brain - at least with some of the probates.

Answer 2

An idiot savant is a term that classified people who had below average intelligence (IQ) but had one area of astronomical ability. It is quite rare. An example is Dustin Hoffman's character, Ray, in the movie Rainman. He had a severe form of autism (which can have a low IQ) but was able to add numbers as quickly as a calculator. Some people display these talents in a number of ways, some can recite an entire script of a favorite movie, others can tell you stats on every baseball player- ever. It depends on the person's interests, because part of it is obsessive-compulsive.

Answer 3

Savant Syndrome describes people with both a severe developmental or mental handicap and extraordinary mental abilities not found in most people. The Savant Syndrome skills involve striking feats of memory and often include arithmetic calculation and sometimes art or music.

Answer 4

Savant symdrome is not limited to people with autism exclusively, but can be found in people who are on the more severe end of any number of developmental disabilities. However, since most of these disabilities share many of the same traits as autism, it is commonly thought that all "idiot savants" are autistic.

Savant syndrome is when an individual with severe developmental delays (usually in communication and social skills) shows an unusualy gifted ability in one specific area. Two of the most commonly quoted are music (the ability to play a piece simply by hearing it one time) and complex mathimatical equations. It is important to note however that the individual can not apply the gift to anything outside of the limitations of the talent. For example, a savant with a gift to do huge mathematical sums in his or her head may still not be able to count change out. Someone who can hear a piece of music and play it back may not be able to learn to read sheet music or add their own "style" to the music.

A person with savant skills is born with them. They tend to manifest sometime between early adolescence and young adult hood, although there is no hard, fast rule. Again, the majority of savants have severe developmental delays. Why these gifts seem to pair with these disabilities is unknown, however it is not unusual for people with more moderate developmental disabilities to show high levels of understanding in one specialized area. In fact, fascination in a subject to the exclusion of anything else is often one of the diagnosising symptoms for autism. Often times, these special skills manifest in areas such as math and non-linear thinking, so again, the link is there.

Answer 5

The idiot savants term is generally applied to people with autism who seem to be unable to capture anything of what goes on around them but then turn out to be geniouses in one particular field.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Typically on the autism spectrum
Can't understand money, time or emotions
BUT supersmart in areas like physics, computers, etc. without necessarily learning it specifically.