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Originally posted by tgleeson
I was thinking of some autistic children who have amazing skills, artistic and/or musical.
These poor kids - because of their condition - would score quite poorly on most intelligence measures and yet they often display incredible abilities, is this just pure talent?
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Ya know, I think the human spirit and/or body has some innate ability to comprnsate for deficiencies in one area by being amazing in another. Blind people have better hearing, for example. Autistics don't absorb information the way "normal" people do, so their brain may be more sensitive to shape and form and such, and that's why many can paint well. etc.
I know that this is off topic, but still I thought it interesting.