1. Autistic savant
You probably remember seeing autistic geniuses as characters in your favorite movies or TV shows. One of the recent ones was “The Accountant” starring Ben Affleck. This movie definitely raised some dust when it comes to the portrayal of the main character, and you probably wondered about highly talented autistic persons in real life. Yes, they exist, and they are called autistic savants. The autistic savant is one of the fascinating phenomena in psychology. The estimated prevalence of savant abilities in autism is 10% which is pretty high when compared to only 1% of the non-autistic population with such abilities. Exceptional skills of these individuals can vary from being exceptionally good with numbers, remembering details with high accuracy to incredible artistic skills. You can take a look at the short documentary about The Rainman Twins, who are autistic savants with impeccable memory as well as world’s only female autistic savant twins. I believe that this is the perfect way to conclude our list of 10 autism facts and statistics: autism rates in Amish, countries that don’t vaccinate and more.
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