On Autism & Prodigies
2012-07-10 18:18:16.177088+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
I always cringe when linking to pop-psych articles that reinforce my prejudices, so take this with that initial level of cringe:
Time: What Child Prodigies and Autistic People Have In Common (Alt news.yahoo.com link) riffs on this link to Ruthsatz and Urbach: Child prodigy: A novel cognitive profile places elevated general intelligence(PDF).
The intense world theory propounds that all autism carries the potential for exceptional talent and social deficits. The social problems, the theory suggests, may ensue from the autistic person’s dysfunctional attempts — social withdrawal and repetitive behaviors, for instance — to deal with his heightened senses and memory.