Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
My uncle tipped me off to a movie clip in which Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic man from London, draws a 16-foot panorama of Rome from memory after a single flyover in a helicopter. You won't believe the level of detail. I've never seen anything like it.
Oh, I love that guy. He's one of the seven profiles in Oliver Sacks's book An Anthropologist on Mars, written back when Stephen was a teen.
Posted by: A White Bear at October 24, 2007 09:24 AMSomehow I managed to have never heard of him previously.
Posted by: apostropher at October 24, 2007 09:30 AMHe got the roof of the Pantheon completely wrong. Not impressed.
Posted by: Brock Landers at October 24, 2007 09:34 AMIt's incredible to think that the mind is capable of that sort of thing, only most of us can't use that ability because we get too freaking distracted by other shit, isn't it?
Posted by: bitchphd at October 24, 2007 03:33 PM4:
Exactly. I was explaining this to a friend of mine and... hey look, dick in a box!
Posted by: Cangrejero at October 24, 2007 04:22 PMWell, as long as the box is properly sealed and kept away from light and heat it doesn't.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at October 24, 2007 09:22 PMHmm... I thought you would have heard about that guy here.
Posted by: Gaijin Biker at October 24, 2007 09:24 PMQuickest way to determine autism? Check to see if his/her watch is digital.
Posted by: Mr. Sticky at October 25, 2007 12:56 AM8: You'd think that, but apparently I missed his appearance there.
Posted by: apostropher at October 25, 2007 08:26 AMDoes anyone know where I can buy a copy of the documentary that's taken from? "Beautiful minds: A voyage into the brain". Google no help so far.
Posted by: A. Chandler Moisen at October 25, 2007 11:55 AM