This is very interesting

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15 Dec 06 13:14

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15 Dec 06 13:14

Check out this link. It's about the guy they modeled the movie Rain Man after.

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/15/news/wyoming/25-recall.txt

Nordlys

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15 Dec 06 13:27

Originally posted by Frank Burns
Check out this link. It's about the guy they modeled the movie Rain Man after.

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/15/news/wyoming/25-recall.txt

Daniel Tammet, another memory savant, meeting Kim Peek:

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15 Dec 06 13:36

That was excellent! Thank you Nordlys. I hope many of our RHPers take a look at that.

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15 Dec 06 13:52

Originally posted by Frank Burns
That was excellent! Thank you Nordlys. I hope many of our RHPers take a look at that.

Amazing! I wonder if Kim can play chess. With the ability (probably) to memorise every game that has ever been played, how good would he be?

😲

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15 Dec 06 14:00

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Originally posted by Rene-Claude
Amazing! I wonder if Kim can play chess. With the ability (probably) to memorise every game that has ever been played, how good would he be?

😲

I'll bet he can recite a lot of the masters games, but as his father said, simple tasks like buttoning shirts, putting toothpaste on a toothbrush etc are difficult. I don't know if he could physically move the pieces.

But how about a blind game? He'd be a killer I'm sure.

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15 Dec 06 14:57

Originally posted by Nordlys
Daniel Tammet, another memory savant, meeting Kim Peek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdeAq7_r63g

He's an amazing person.
Even though he has problems in certain areas that are simple to most of us, he probably has a better understanding of our universe.

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15 Dec 06 16:04

Originally posted by Nordlys
Daniel Tammet, another memory savant, meeting Kim Peek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdeAq7_r63g

For those people who may not know who Daniel Tammet is...

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15 Dec 06 17:07

He reads the left page with the left eye at the same time reading the right
page with the right eye. He remembers 98% of everything he reads. He can
instantly tell you the day your birthday falls on this year. But what I liked
most about him, from watching the clip and reading the article, is that we're
all different.

What a wonderful way to put it. 🙂

This thread is the most refreshing and uplifting one I've read in some time
here.

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16 Dec 06 00:12

Originally posted by stocken
He reads the left page with the left eye at the same time reading the right
page with the right eye. He remembers 98% of everything he reads. He can
instantly tell you the day your birthday falls on this year. But what I liked
most about him, from watching the clip and reading the article, is that we're
all different.

What a wonderful way to put it. 🙂

This thread is the most refreshing and uplifting one I've read in some time
here.

I agree. We can thank Frank Burns and Nordlys for that. They're both pretty cool people. 😉