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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 324348" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Well here is a snippet from Wikipedia about savants that you may want to enlighten her with. The correct term now is savantism because its not just autistic people and to be an "idiot savant" your IQ has to be 20 or under. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>According to Treffert:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome#cite_note-Treffert-0" target="_blank">[1]</a></p><p> </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One in ten autistic persons has savant skills.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">50% of savants are autistic; the other 50% often have different disabilities, mental retardation, brain injuries, or brain diseases.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Male savants outnumber female savants by about six times.</li> </ul><p>A 2009 British study of 137 autistic individuals found that 28% met criteria for a savant skill, that is, a skill or power "at a level that would be unusual even for normal people"; the study suggested that the number is likely to be an underestimate, with the true value being at least a third of individuals with autism.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome#cite_note-9" target="_blank">[10]</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>According to Treffert, something that almost all savants have in common is a prodigious memory of a special type, a memory that he describes as "very deep, but exceedingly narrow". It is narrow in the sense that they can recall but have a hard time putting it to use (for more on this see section on Savants in [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Memory"]Advanced Memory[/ame])</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 324348, member: 1514"] Well here is a snippet from Wikipedia about savants that you may want to enlighten her with. The correct term now is savantism because its not just autistic people and to be an "idiot savant" your IQ has to be 20 or under. According to Treffert:[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome#cite_note-Treffert-0"][1][/URL] [LIST] [*]One in ten autistic persons has savant skills. [*]50% of savants are autistic; the other 50% often have different disabilities, mental retardation, brain injuries, or brain diseases. [*]Male savants outnumber female savants by about six times. [/LIST] A 2009 British study of 137 autistic individuals found that 28% met criteria for a savant skill, that is, a skill or power "at a level that would be unusual even for normal people"; the study suggested that the number is likely to be an underestimate, with the true value being at least a third of individuals with autism.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome#cite_note-9"][10][/URL] According to Treffert, something that almost all savants have in common is a prodigious memory of a special type, a memory that he describes as "very deep, but exceedingly narrow". It is narrow in the sense that they can recall but have a hard time putting it to use (for more on this see section on Savants in [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Memory"]Advanced Memory[/ame]) [/QUOTE]
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