Why There Are Only 50 People in the World With This Type of Brain

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[@reversefulfillment9189]

When someone says they'll knock some sense into you, just go with it.

[@internetlurker1850]

Imagine getting your ass beat so hard you become a mathematician

[@imperiencypher5584]

HA! There's still a week to go but this may well be my favorite original (non-political) comment on KZbin for 2023 - Well played! 👍

[@chiphand]

Like boomer smack tv get them working.

[@0MNIDaSher00]

Ahahaha- That's very clever 👁️‍🗨️

[@davidjrthekingsir]

I see what you did right there

[@DH89715]

My 15 year old boy diagnosed with Savants autism. He is walking calendar and he can memorise almost everything from the song’s title to the meals he had 10 years ago and the dialogues or conversations he had years ago too… sweet boy and blessing to my family

[@mysterypasta7245]

That’s really cool!

[@kyssedbyfyre915]

My Son is like that too, photographic memory, does columns of numbers easily in his head,and spouts off EVERY logo to EVERY make & model of automobile, in a glance. He's been tested, has a really high IQ, was labeled as "gifted" in elementary school,again in middle, again in HS. I think brains are just fascinating. Are our Sons so different? Their performance is similar, after all.

[@rachelhernandez2178]

Great video. I really enjoyed it!

[@youdonegoofed]

cap

[@cjwojoe]

I had a really good friend in high school. He could talk to a person for about ten minutes. About seemingly innocuous small talk. Nothing about dates. At the end of your short introduction conversation and a little small talk he could tell you your exact birthday. He couldn't explain how he did it. I could never figure it out even though I observed a lot and tried to figure it out. Kid was super awkward and struggled in many classes. But we banded around him to make sure no one messed with him.

[@colletteprops8708]

I met Kim Peek and his brother twice. Once in like 2ndor 3rd grade and again in my later teens. The 1st time, I'd given him a small card with an Irish blessing on it. Kim looked at it for about a SECOND, repeated the greeting back to me, asked my birth date, and told me what day I was born. His brother said they would keep the card as a keepsake but Kim would always remember it and me. I was small and believed in magic but as I got older I doubted he would really remember me when he came to my then school. Kim shook my hand and repeated my name, dob and day of birth, then gave me my own Irish blessing. I cried. They each let me hug them and I'm Kim's biggest fan and he's my best friend.❤

[@user-hq4jz6lc9d]

Kim passed away in 2009, didn't he? It's cool that you got to know him.

[@trevordaviesable]

I think my son has this syndrome by recovering from covid.

[@notmetagaming]

​@@trevordaviesable what

[@julios782]

@colleteprops8708 shutup

[@Teslijah]

@@trevordaviesablethis is crazy

[@aprilcorrales5597]

I was in prison with this woman....that was in a really bad car accident which afterwards her brain worked differently....she couldn't do a lot of things she knows she used to be able to do but gained other talents....her artwork was most amazing....she could to scale shrink or inlarge images. Portraits were uncanny but her short term memory.... horrible. Beautiful spirit she has

[@BoatRadio]

6 years ago I was in the US army, I was injured pretty bad I broke my spine in 16 places and my pelvis and I hit my head really hard. I used to love working out and I always had to be around people and after it I was a completely different person. I dont like people, I dont do things anymore, I find interest in things I never thought there was ever a chance I would like? I used to arm wrestle in math class and now Im learning quantum mechanics for FUN. I have learned how to speak Chinese although there is literally NO use for that where I live. And I have taken a very strange appeal to gravity and super conductors, magnets etc. The down side though is I have become EXTREMELY short tempered and angry at the world when I dont need to be. The likelihood this is anything to do with the video is probably slim to none, but I felt like it was relatable. Thanks for reading this far if you have.

[@Ace-ns9co]

Thanks for telling your story 😀

[@aaanimations_]

Autism 💯

[@ehombane]

@hartraven67 What do you mean? Do you mean that the story above is just an invention? Yep hard to believe, and I do not quite believe such story either, even I am a living story like these. Actually pretty similar to the above one. But a lot of differences. My injury happened not 6 years ago, but 41, not US, but Eastern Europe. Not the spine but the brain. But it happened while in the army. Also, my intellectual abilities were kind of non existent. Actually, I barely passed classes. All those around repeated to me that I am stupid, and I believed it, that is why I had no interest in learning. What was the point, and oriented myself to manual labor, where I was more apt. But the bullet in the head took away some skull and some brain too. Also took away my left hand and foot. I mean the ability to use them. The foot recovered somehow, I can limp my way around, but running is no more an possible activity for me. But the hand is mostly useless. And so, manual work was not more an option too. Even I can do with a single hand what many others cannot do with two hand, I am no more competitive, I am too slow at manual labour, amd so I was forced towards an intellectual activity. Computers were my chance. But I could not afford one, and so I did some classes in order to acces one. Than I enrolled at University for the same reason. I was 10 tears older than my class mates, and with a mangled brain. beside the reality of being retarded, or maybe just almost retarded. It was not a class of valedictorians, but a class of those who could not enter the free classes, by getting good grades. So were my kind of people, barely able to stay in school. But not as dumb as me, to not even consider a higher education. So they chose it, but was only able to attend a paid version. Anyway, guess what, even with my mangled brain, and a decade of pause after high school. I got on the third place in the class. I suspected that the cause was that I just paid attention. I was not a prisoner is school, I was attending on my free will, while the others were there because of the parents. But now, after seeing other examples, I admit that there could be some effects from the injury too. I did not had sudden skills that I did not previously had, except maybe confidence, or the ability to work with computers. I am not a tallented coder, but compuers are easy stuff for me, unlike everybody else around who are simple inept at using computers.

[@SamJ_1980]

I don't like people either, most of them suck.

[@davidh6300]

Stay safe my friend. All the best with your new interest.

[@Victoria-dh9vb]

There was a severely autistic boy I went to school with, and my friend's mom was his EA. He was unable to complete full sentences, but loved Disney, and could riddle off the entirety of the end credits of several films from memory. Which is a really crappy trade off for having to live with debilitating sensory overload and difficulty with motor function. He seemed like a nice kid, and fortunately the popular "jock" type kids took a shine to him and made the lives of anyone who even thought about bullying him a hell scape for the rest of their high school careers.

[@noweebatall5520]

Bro I was waiting for the happy end😭💀

[@quonk2]

@@noweebatall5520wdym so happy end 😊

[@clairebeane3455]

@@quonk2The support this child has makes for happy moments. Perhaps not the happy ending we would like to see, but refreshing nonetheless.

[@Drogas3653]

Need proof of this. Sounds like bs.

[@eafasfwasgwg]

@@Drogas3653 bruh you cant get proof from the past its not like the person who made the comment recorded it lmao

[@jeffmckinnon5842]

In 1999, my sister in law had surgery for an aneurism in her brain. At 52 years old, she woke up a completely different person, in every way. She lost all memory. Her husband, her friends and even her own children. Those memories never came back. It was quite destructive, but she could walk and talk, and learned how to drive - again... Her soul was something I thought about a lot over the years. Who are we, if this happens???

[@lucky6666]

They took her soul.

[@ravenfields8968]

Without a particle of pure thought ever found it may be the brain is a complex anttena to pre tuned to recive your personal concensice channel broadcast and somepeole pick up multichannels or change channels

[@MoonGuy7070]

​@@lucky6666💀

[@Riker626]

OK, I'm taking up skate boarding ... without a helmet ...

[@FoodNerds]

😂😂😂😂

[@el-shaddayi5810]

😂

[@dawsie]

My Mom was born blind in her left eye, then one day she got so sick that her brain was literally cooked when her body temp climbed over 110°f plus, they placed her into an ice bath hoping that it would help, they had to keep adding ice due to the fact her body was warming it up and melting. Finally 5 days later her body temp dropped down to normal, but the damage was done, she had to learn to walk and talk all over again, but each time she went to sleep she would wake up in a different part of her memories, we never knew when or where she was until she spoke. 80% of the time I was me her daughter, 5% of the time I was her sister, the other 15% I was her Mother. For all of that I had to learn to be very quick in my feet as they say, because contradicting her would cause so much trouble, funny enough Dad was always Dad no matter where she was, he was her one fixed point in her life that never changed at all. 6 months after she was finally released from hospital Mom shocked us with a fact that she could see, for months Mom was suffering vertigo and we just could not work out why, until one night she asked me to stop twitching my foot, a foot that she should never of been able to see from her angle because she had been blind in that eye for over 60 years until now. Well poor Mom had to go back to Brisbane Hospital as they had to run a whole heap of new tests to be compared with the ones that had been done just after her brain had been well and truly cooked. Her brain had started to rewire itself around all of the dead spots in her brain (we called them holes, she called it Swiss cheese brain) she had trouble making new memories, but if something scary happened at the same time it got past the blockage and was fixed into her fixed memories. The tests showed that if she had lived long enough her brain would have finished re-writing around all if the holes. Unfortunately the draw back of killing the virus that attacked her brain also gave her cancer, we were told it was a 50-50 chance at the time and we had hoped that she would have been lucky but was never to be. The brain is such a huge mystery and I don’t think we will ever fully know how or why these things happen, but we did find the source of her vertigo and once that was solved she got new glasses so things stopped looking fuzzy and thus helping to stop the vertigo as well. I got to meet my Mom from a child to a teenage to a young adult and finally once in a while I got to see Mom as how I grew up with. I still miss her everyday I just don’t miss not knowing who and when she was when she woke up every time. She would get angry all the time because of the way her brain worked, in the end I explained it to her in the only way I could and that was to treat her brain as a hard drive that had crashed and during the fixing of the HD data got scrambled and data was misplaced on the HD. She actually understood this concept and was one of the very few things that actually got past the memory block in her brain and was stored for her to find when ever she got frustrated we would just say “Remember you crashed your HD of a brain and it’s busy re-writing the pathways to the data, but it sometimes re-writes it wrong” she always remembered that.

[@MrDhandley]

What a truly amazing story. I’m sorry that you lost her so early but I’m sure she lives on in your memory. 😢🇦🇺

[@ImadFarhat-xx8ks]

stop yapping bro

[@strellasmith777]

That is an incredible story!

[@lenniusmaximus9794]

you just made me cry

[@sonnylambert4893]

@@ImadFarhat-xx8ks Take your own advice wanker

[@TheElbowMerchant]

Man, all I got from head trauma is migraines, insomnia, unsteady fine motor movement, and short-term memory deficits. Where do I sign up for the good head trauma? I definitely didn't get that one!

[@marshalepage5330]

The people with the good head trauma also have the bad. It makes it difficult to let anyone know you are talented because you know they will overstimulate you or work you to migraine death.

[@leftright5]

Check out jre #1056.

[@ephraimakoto3657]

I got a good one 😂😂😂. Sorry bro.

[@nodnard009]

Lemme knock some sense into you again 😂

[@AZVIDS]

A night at the Roxbury🎶🎶

[@Julia68yt]

10 years ago I suddenly started seeing enhanced colors everywhere , I also went slightly legasthenic (tried to read words backwards without noticing it and couldn't make sense of them). Plus, geometric things made me dizzy (tiled walls or pavements were the worst) and triggered Parkinson-like symptoms. My dreams were filled with fast moving images like in early vector computer games. After weeks and weeks of trying to figure out what was going on, one eye specialist finally figured out that I had a severe migraine - a "silent" one, i.e. without any pain whatsoever but with a masive neurological aura. It still took almost a year for the symptoms to disappear. The brain is a very strange thing.

[@CluntEstwode]

I have Synesthesia, but its not like I actually see sounds as colours or shapes, but its more that I percieve things in my "mind's eye" like its processed with parts of the brain associated with other senses. So when listening to music certain sounds will show up in my head as colours or even flavours. For example the tonal qualities of someone's singing voice may be percieved as the colour and taste of white wine. I'm also a musician and songwriter, and sometimes when writing music the sounds of certain instruments will take on a colour, or a particular passage of music will manifest as colours as I'm writing it and flesh itself out in that perception. Synesthesia can manifest in different ways for different people, but that's my experience of it

[@laurabarber6697]

I believe that this is the way our brains work in heaven. 💝

[@entropy59122]

Jee I'm just dumb 😂

[@jimh4072]

I do that too, when I was a kid if someone asked me what a certain food tasted like I might say a colour, I always described liquorice as tasting purple.

[@thisolesignguy2733]

This is awesome. I had the pleasure of meeting a savant when I was younger, I used to play Steel guitar before I developed partial deafness and when I was applying for music school there was a young 16yr old kid that also played steel that was applying. He couldn't walk nor talk, but when he sat in front of the guitar and began to play it was so beautiful that everyone in the room had tears in their eyes. It was truly an amazing experience that I will cherish my entire life. I heard he passed away a few years later due to complications with his autism, but I hope he knows there are people that still revere him even 30 years later.

[@Bc232klm]

Fake

[@Eoin999]

@@Bc232klmwhat proof do you have lol

[@cajampa]

This sounds weird dude. If this really happened why are you not telling us his name. If he was that skilled at music someone would have recorded him and his music would be out there. No, what you wrote sounds more like creative writing from an LLM than a description of reality from a real person.

[@caracassalkatraz1284]

​@@cajampacause you heard something about those thousands savants currently living? Your argument doesn't make much sense there are hundreds of guitar players out there who could bring a room to tears but you will never hear from them cause they didn't got lucky. What threw me of was the part where he died cause of his autism. In our society the inability to care for yourself isn't a death sentence anymore other than that autism shouldn't be deadly?

[@MikaelIsaksson]

Same here. But my friend is still alive and he is a savant with the piano. He made his first song at the age of 3. He can play any song he hears once perfectly on the piano.

[@kookmintony]

Had a good friend in HS who always had migraines, valedictorian of our class and his law school. The guy can recall every conversation he's had, verbatum, all the way back to middle school. I remembered he used to complain that he felt burdened with information overload and wished he could forget but it was impossible.

[@HNH421]

yep ever conversation all the way back - also ambidextrous - unfortunetly -qunicly bislexic

[@brainretardant]

Cannabis

[@g.k.1669]

I have synesthesia and that definitely makes an incredible difference while listening to music. For some reason it becomes overwhelming and I have to remove the headphones as the images become too intense. If I use that the images turn in to faces most of the time, every other time they are variances of structures or forests and plants. @@brainretardant

[@HNH421]

@@brainretardant i have smoked loads of pot but im still quonicaly bislexic should i try eating it ???

[@Rhyane490]

The 🧠 cannot be overloaded with information

[@dougjones3305]

I think i am someone who might actually have adult aquired savant syndrome. Im such a different person then i was 10 years ago. I used to be an extrovert, used to have obvious adhd, now i feel like a total different person and have synesthesia without a doubt and i suddenly started building models a couple of years ago without the smallest bit of a learning curve. I just started and knew what to do right away. Im now introverted and sell and paint the models i create and often will just sculpt them if i dont have the model. I guess theyre really good too because people seem to really like them in droves.

[@dougjones3305]

@@jameswierdchannel744 ok, maybe I should. I just have to get over my shyness and other issues I guess. Yea I'm going to do that, what the hell do I have to lose? I dont want to be someone who just fades away like most people do. Ok I'm convinced but I gotta actually do it. Goddamn it....

[@jameswierdchannel744]

@@dougjones3305 Nike just do it. Good luck mate.

[@dougjones3305]

@@jameswierdchannel744 heroin.... Just do it.... Always pops into my head.

[@YZ450f24]

Some people on here have some cool stories of who they met but I think I met the person with the most incredible brain in human recorded history who happened to also be talked about in this video. Kim peek and his father lived here in Utah before he died and I met and talked to him. If you told him your address he would tell you the name of the homeowners because in less than one day he memorized the phone book. He knew the winner of every world series he could tell you the score and in what inning and even what the weather was like on that day. He would spend a lot of his time reading multiple books a day. Sad he is no longer alive.

[@SwampDonkey64]

Before you go out for some intentional brain smashing remember this. My big brother got hit with a ball bat that left him having to learn to walk and talk, eat and even how to use the restroom. The brother I knew and loved was not in there anymore. I did get to know my new brother but he was not the same in anyway. He was tougher and faster than me before that but after that I fought all his battles because he was my brother and no one was allowed to mess with him but me. He died at 40 years old of a massive hart attack. I miss him every day and can’t wait to dine with him at our Father’s table 🙏🏽

[@broganworthington8991]

Thank you for sharing 🥲

[@youbigtubership]

Man, you are a good brother.

[@WWTormentor]

After completing my first year of gross anatomy in medical school, I realized that we know almost everything that there is to know about every organ and structure in our body except the brain. We know so little about it. We will most likely reach the point where we have perfected gene therapy and gene splicing long before we ever truly understand the brain.

[@cinemartin3530]

In my opinion, the human brain is the most amazing thing that nature has ever created. When we study it well, it will be one of the biggest breakthroughs for people.

[@kozlorog]

I know everything about the brain. Ask me anything.

[@19Marine]

@@cinemartin3530just think the human brain is saying that about itself ;-;

[@erickellar5867]

@@19Marine funny if the human brain would just be putting itself on a pedestal and making it seem greater than it really is out of arrogance or something

[@DeliveryGuyMan]

@cinemartin3530 "The human brain is the most amazing thing that nature has ever created" - The Human Brain

[@theverseshed]

A truly fascinating video - classic Thoughty2. One of my colleagues experiences synesthesia when she sees colours for words and numbers. This has been with her all her life and she always thought there was something wrong with her. She mentioned it to me when we were discussing children's behaviours and special abilities. She was astonished that I knew what she was talking about. Why per parents or other friends hadn't made the connection, I don't know. I mentioned the word 'synesthesia' and suggested that she check it out to see how others have the same experience.

[@mikeyKnows_]

At the age of 31 I was in a motorcycle accident and got severely injured and bumped my head but I was wearing a helmet. Before this accident I could never concentrate, would day dream, was a failed student through every grade from 1st - 12th. After this accident I was able to retain large amounts of information and it gave me the confidence to go back to school and graduate, today at 39 I'm on my way to be a professor of energy technology. I'm no savant by any measure but it "woke up" my brain to be more efficient.

[@glennjpanting2081]

I'm not a savant (unless there's a savant for dad jokes), but calendar calculations are not that hard to do. Some years ago, I saw a video of a guy who was not a savant doing it for a crowd, and I figured that it wasn't magic .... there had to be a way to do it. I looked it up, learned how to do it, and now I can impress people by doing something that nobody gives a shit about! 😎

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

nah bro you're a savant and you're in denial. accept your power and go on a hero journey

[@glennjpanting2081]

@@Dave_of_Mordor No, I'm not in denial. I know exactly how fucking awesome I am .... it's just that no one else can truly comprehend the immeasurable scope of my awesomeness. It's like staring into the sun. That much raw power is blinding.

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

> _now I can impress people by doing something that nobody gives a shit about!_ Story of my life, bro. 🤜🤛

[@victor9]

@@glennjpanting2081 Yes you are! that's exactly what a savant in denial would say. Your fate is sealed go on be free my precious savant, the world needs you!

[@Willy_Tepes]

I am pretty good at interpreting satellite images and a lot of other stuff related to pattern recognition, but that is simply because other people are so shit at it. Somehow their programming does not allow them to see what is right before their eyes. It is immensely frustrating to hear "but the experts say" when I am literally showing them proof of the opposite.

[@michaelhicks3273]

I was diagnosed with high functioning autism, and my observation is that indeed, instinct can make virtually anything possible. The trick is to know how instinct relates to whatever skill you're speaking of. All it takes is for you to want to pay enough attention to something to figure out how it works. Survival is the most effective way to do that. If you think you are going to die, you will be pressured to learn whatever it is you want. It sounds cruel that I say the best way to see amazing things from people is to threaten their life, but note that I said you at least have to "think" you are going to die. That is exactly what happens whenever you are sad or angry. I think that is well known. Face your fears and you will become amazing.

[@tanistyerman190]

Knew a boy who said his parents put him in a Christian school in grade two. He had never been raised religious and when he saw the crucifix he became studious and well behaved. He thought they would hang him up their too if he didn't behave.

[@Ace-ns9co]

You know, now that I think about it, I can recall with extreme clarity every single time in my life I have been either sad, or angry. What you say is true. Thankyou for that insight.

[@boingyboop4960]

I have noticed that when I am in fight or flight mode, I can suddenly do things I’ve never been able to do before. Like once, as a kid, a friend and I were riding bikes in a park, and we were trying to ride up this steep, grassy hill, and no matter how hard I pedalled or how much of a run up I got, I could never get up that hill. Until a dog started chasing me (and I had a HUUUUUGE fear of dogs back then) and I was absolutely terrified for my life. In my attempt to escape, I rode up that very hill that I’d been trying to get up all day, and I barely had to give it a second thought. My friend was so impressed that I was able to do it but when I tried to do it again without the threat I couldn’t anymore. The human body is so mysterious.

[@Ger954]

I Labeled it instinct due to the definition being the closest to my experience, one thing want to note (because it’s like I’m Spider-Man) is that I can half feel what’s going on in my surroundings and predict things to a certain extent like I can feel if a person is coming up to talk me 6 or 7 seconds before they do and I used logic and reasoning with this ability to know what the general thing they want to ask me is, it’s really cool one limit is that when I’m overly social anxious I lose the ability for a moment ands that’s caused many embarrassments due to people expecting another smart comment.

[@pafu015]

@@Ger954That’s called using your brain 💀

[@TheRanaro]

I have met and known a savant. Back in the day when I was in uni, I worked p/t at a group home for mentally challenged adults. One man w/retardation had autism and was deemed an "idiot savant" (real term in the USA). If one told him their birthdates, he would tell them which day of the week they were born. Even does this in years in centuries past and future. His name was Marc and we all loved him. He passed from COVID in 2020.

[@ovdhvdh1355]

that is amazing all though knowing what day of the week it is based on a date is not that hard to learn

[@oakstrong1]

I watched a video of a young, ordinary girl who went to bed with a headache and woke up the next day being able to paint like a trained artist. She was only 14 or something like that. Her parents let her homeschool so she could have more time to paint... I wonder if she had some undetected problem in her brain, an internal "blow"? Like aneurysm, for example. There would be no reason why anyone would have done a brain scan of otherwise healthy child. She isn't the only child like that, I remember the video mentioning a couple of other young people suddenly gaining an incredible talent without any apparent trauma or diminished brain function. Maybe their brains just rewired themselves spontaneously. Makes me wonder if some of the famous inventors and artists in history were savants and people just thought them eccentric.

[@jennahbright19]

Thats an interesting thought

[@lazytommy0]

My grandfather obtained this from a head injury shortly after Vietnam in the marine corps. They still use part of his electrical instruction manual in some of their training courses. He gained a massive boost to IQ after the head injury along with a skull fracture.

[@clairebeane3455]

This is so fascinating to me. ❤❤❤

[@MK-qf3ve]

can i ask if he took an iq test before

[@Kitsaplorax]

A cognitive boost happens with learning many languages. When I was attending DLI in Monterey, CA taking Turkish in 1976,:a language auditor was ripping through the 37 week Finnish language course in twelve weeks. This was his fifth or sixth new language -and he noticed that each new language was easier to learn than the last one

[@brohen]

Had a kid in high-school like the Peake (sp?) guy. He pretty much had any and every football stat, player names and numbers, teams, scores, could recall every game he's watched play by play, and could also give you step by step instructions to and from any place he's been, even out of state. It was incredible listening to him talk. Pretty much total recall

[@WeedSmokingBrony]

Could've been autistic

[@kjnoah]

Awesome, also frightening if you ever did something you later regret.

[@kjnoah]

Or were traumatized by something done to you.

[@brohen]

@kjnoah he was an autistic guy in a wealthy family, so I think they did him well. I went to school with him for 4 years, and it was also crazy seeing him go from SP.ED. only classes, to being escorted by a Para/counselor to in later high-school being completely unattended. Still noticeably autistic but in school by then he was 90% independent. I hope the best for that dude

[@paktru]

I Have a customer that comes to my job every morning thats the same way. He would write down his predictions for football games for the week. This guy will be at least 85% if not 100% correct on his predictions. He is a 💎.

[@IT2012]

Dude i just love the supersmart yet gentle and human-firendly-paced style of your videos, you do indeed inspire me to try better to be a better human myself too! Even the topics I feel well educated on you put into context in such a delicate way for the people, bravo!

[@brylevelarde8226]

Thank you so much for keep on sharing some important ideas to us!

[@JackalX111]

I am no savant (as far as I know); but when I was 10 I suffered a TBI in a go-cart accident. Shortly afterwards, I developed a bizarre understanding of analog machines & their internal workings (also my memory "unlocked" & I can remember things going all the way back to my first word & cognitive thought at 8 months old). Exempli gratia: I have yet to encounter an analog (non-computerized) machine that I cannot fix. Though this goes far deeper and I believe this is merely just the manifestation of my greater ability to "understand" the world around me in extreme detail. Though, as all coins have two sides, I also received a few curses. I developed exploding head syndrome, tourettes, and an almost complete lose of self (my I'd in Freudian terms) as well as significant damage to my super ego. I've never been properly tested other than a basic IQ test performed by vocational rehab back in November 2021. The psychoanalyst stated I scored in the "High Superior" range. Enough about me (if anyone actually read this), Merry Christmas to everyone out there & I wish you all a blessed new year! :)

[@mariavictor4324]

To you as well. Have a lovely day. So very interesting to know your life experience and I hope the negatives will balance out with the good. 👍

[@kitefan1]

Merry Christmas and a Joyous and prosperous 2024!

[@AlecKristi]

Seems that understanding of machinery (or physics) is a much more common symptom than I thought... At least based on this comment section.

[@kevinmurphy5878]

That's fucking wild (in a good way)

[@AnyWayICan]

Your English composition skills don’t seem to have suffered.

[@flammableflimflam]

I’m definitely an idiot savant…just without the savant part.

[@icanhasfreecat]

Lol! Same! I'm so good at being retarded.

[@denisesiddon317]

Ditto 😂

[@milo-qh7cv]

yes you are and so is a big part of the pop lol

[@tinkerstrade3553]

No, we've got it all, it's just in bitcoin and we forgot the password. 😂

[@LuisCipher]

Everyone is an idiot at certain points in their life. Anyone who doesn't accept or denies this simple truth is a fool. 🫠

[@eetukuusisto9133]

Thanks! I'm already waiting for the next one.

[@rymkervic123456]

Haven't seen you for ages, you are looking good. Thanks for still doing this.

[@johannaverplank4858]

My mom was a Special Education teacher, and she had a student who was a congenital savant. He had autism, and could tell you on what day of the week you were born when you gave him your birthdate. He could also remember exact routes he was driven, no matter how complex, after just one trip. He wasn’t able to drive, but had all the streets of Indianapolis memorized, and it’s a really big city. He also loved to draw maps. Mom said he was an absolute joy to have in class.

[@1RandomMiss]

I also had a client who had the exact abilities. He was also a joy to be around.

[@juliawilliams1355]

Indy isn't that big but yeah that's wild. I always used to think the term differently able was condescending but it is extremely accurate in cases like these. Also just a small reminder about how little we know about the nature of human consciousness

[@Musicman3832]

@@juliawilliams1355yeah Indianapolis isn’t that big. I would say Chicago is waaay bigger. Also New York.

[@1RandomMiss]

@@juliawilliams1355 To me the term differently abled seems empowering and perhaps more accurate. Disable means not able at all and in many peoples cases that’s just false and non inclusive. Differently abled has a can do attitude about it. That’s just my perspective anyway.

[@yippee8570]

@@1RandomMiss Disabled people generally prefer to be called disabled, as 'differently abled' just sounds patronising

[@JaneNewAuthor]

I'm Asperger's. Numbers have colours, some flavours have textures. When I was younger my memory was close to photographic. Exams never worried me, I'd read the notes the night before. I'm writing this because you've explained a lot about why my brain is different. I'm not a savant, but I make connections other people don't. My brain is wired differently.

[@brianadams3189]

If you experience that sort of synesthesia (numbers have colors) and you don't play music, you might want to consider getting yourself a keyboard. I wonder if you have perfect pitch as well.

[@JaneNewAuthor]

@@brianadams3189 interesting idea, thank you. My son and my brother are both very musical, can get a tune out of any instrument.

[@chobswey]

I don’t have autism nor I am a savant, but I’ve had the same experiences.

[@Starscreamious]

Hi Asperger's, I'm Dad.

[@salsichalivre5401]

but what else? Are you rich? How u have fun with that memory? because must be fun@@JaneNewAuthor

[@Vortex-Dee2]

Channel always getting better and better..... Great work man!

[@scarlettg6136]

Thank you for the great video. I truly enjoy your artwork and content ❤

[@haidner]

I had a friend who was a musical Savant in high school. Because of family circumstances he never discovered it until he was 16. He was literally shown how to use a guitar for the first time, and within 10 minutes was playing pieces that took me months to learn. Same with piano; got his RC grade 10 piano before he turned 18. Picked up a trumpet and could play it inside of 30 minutes as well as the kid who showed him how. I've always wondered what happened to him.

[@GeoffryGifari]

Also interesting is the *scope* of savantsim. Do musical savants lean more towards freakishly mastering a single instrument? How good at drumming can a piano savant be? What about composition? Or performance adjacent to the music itself (like body language/dance)?

[@haidner]

@@GeoffryGifari Good question. All I know is my friend. He could do anything musical, including singing, eventually. He didn't try singing until he was about halfway through learning piano, and that was only at extreme urging (he was quite shy). Sadly, I lost track of him in university, when he got involved with some unsavory people. I'm afraid he ended up going down a bad road that includes addiction.

[@frankclough380]

I've been learning to play the guitar for 50 years and I'm completely useless, after all these decades I still sound like a clumsy beginner. I have a friend who is a brilliant player, back in the day we used to buy the latest Paul Simon or James Taylor records and after one listening he could play all the songs on the record as well as the original. He said playing the guitar is easy, anybody can do it, there's no skill involved. He showed me how to do stuff, but even though I knew what to do I could never master any of it, my hands just felt like lumps of lead with fat pork sausage fingers attached. Some things for some people are easy, like my effortless guitar playing friend, he never had to exert himself to learn the guitar, I don't even think you can say he learned to play, he didn't learn, he just picked one up and played it from the beginning without ever really trying. For others the same thing is an insurmountable task they will never master however much time and effort they put into it.

[@GeoffryGifari]

@@haidner Wow... In life not all extreme talents go on to be immortalized. Hopefully your friend is in a better path

[@michaelbrinks8089]

Ya, it's crazy how you can practice drawing or playing an instrument for years. Then someone else can come along & blow you away after 1 day of practice.

[@lunatik9696]

I had the opposite happen. I was always really good at math, and by college performed most math, engineering and science calculations/ approximations (easily) in my head. I spent months researching the best calculator for my money. They were still pretty expensive back then. I chose a RPN, National Semiconductor 4640. An automobile wreck and head trauma diminished my mental calculating abilities significantly. I could no longer hold all the variables for my approximations. I confused simple math laws and developed a dyslexia between 3 and 5 as well as o and a. Once I realized these "modifications" I was able to pre-compensate to some degree. Occasionally, I can still produce some impressive feats, but no where close to b4 the wreck.

[@tubax926]

Reading this hurt me. I hope you're ok. The world is truly rough, I would flat out unalive myself if I found out I couldn't do what I staked my entire pride and joy on, unless I had some loved ones.

[@paulgoogol2652]

Should of not done the trauma thing there mate.

[@polyrhythmia]

I used to have an HP11C calculator with RPN logic. RPN is Reverse Polish Notation by the way.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

I used my TI86 to play games first handheld console for me wonderful time to be alive

[@magsmcginty3929]

brain can still heal. eat omega 3 fatty fish.

[@twiztidyournutz]

Thank you for the video!❤

[@valiantwarrior4517]

Thank you for another year of amazing content, Lord Thoughty!

[@Animanarchy]

The seating plan in high school chemistry put me next to the smartest guy in the school. He was a genius of some sort. He had near perfect marks (99% I think because apparently they can't give you perfect marks in English classes). It was great because he insisted on doing the write ups for all the labs we did together so I wouldn't bring down his marks (he never said so but it was obvious) so that arrangement brought my marks up without having to do as much homework.

[@ChappyQuiddick-wz6ci]

He wasn't as much of a Genuis as you "Supposed" him to be.

[@wolfthorn1]

Sounds like that nerd stole your education.

[@user-iq6cc3df3l]

Funny. When I was taking a college Calculus class we had to create groups of five and solve quite a few tricky problems. I always hated group projects but I tolerated them. Anyways one other guy in my group - he was a bit lazy but he was really smart - and I did most of the problems independently then compared, as a sanity check. We both had the exact same answers surprisingly. There was a girl in the group who thought we were on the wrong track so she broke off from our group telling the professor she wouldn’t work with us. The professor allowed it for some reason. Short story long we got 100 percent, maybe the only group who did, which is unusual for a difficult math class. She got around 50 percent. I thought she had it coming.

[@KasparrTV]

Funny that the biggest difference between a genius and a dumb person is just fucking applying yourself in school lmao.

[@Animanarchy]

@KasparrTV Weird how some kids are just naturally smarter than others even before any schooling, isn't it? And some just do naturally better in school without having to try much? People are not all born with equal intellectual capabilities.

[@samward9889]

This is why I love this channel above all else. "Who drew this hand?" "First, we need to go back to a karaoke bar in 2002" 😂🙌

[@humboldthammer]

I was nowhere near Tacoma in 2002.

[@GizzyDillespee]

You can't go back to 2002, and you shouldn't go back to a karaoke bar, and Tacoma doesn't exist... I mean, have you ever met anyone from Tacoma?

[@humboldthammer]

@@GizzyDillespee I've met people from Walla Walla and Yakima. So, Tacoma doesn't seem like much of a stretch.

[@shannonmacdonald8235]

I’m from Tacoma and I’m not surprised this dude was beaten up and mugged outside of a bar.

[@AlfredoNelito]

yeh you re right bout this chnnel sorry if you cn rid wht i wrote my computer does not hve 'n "a"

[@heleng2274]

Thanks for these videos I love them! This one is great, my mum was a savant with music, so this is interesting to see.

[@andreasofficiall]

9:00 RESPECT YOU 100% :)

[@user-tl4cy4gg5h]

My nephew fell off of a car while "car surfing" as a teenager. When he woke up after a weeks'-long coma, he could suddenly play any instrument after hearing it played just once. He also excelled at math, whereas before the accident, he barely scraped by his classes. It struck all of us as amazing - although, understandably, my sister was just glad he came back to us at all!

[@theeveningswan6469]

Thank you for these incredible deep dives! I love channels like this that can make me interested in topics I've never heard of

[@charlesmitchell5841]

This was very interesting. Thanks for the video!

[@elizabethnash7491]

Always so interesting and amusing! Thanks for all your hard work. From the West of Ireland ☘️

[@lennypen1978]

One of my nephew's has autism, he banged his head when upset, hes 7 now and is a mathematical genius, although he is developing a bit slower in other areas i think he will speed up in most if not all these areas as he becomes older, but at the moment his mathematics is unbelievable, crazy working out at ridiculously high numbers

[@jhriss]

As usual, Great content, well thought out, planned, executed, and edited. Thank You !

[@ashaleewai8735]

You have the most interesting topics for us, delivered factually, succinctly and with humour. Just love this channel, thank you so much.

[@AnnabelleBeaudoin]

I love your videos ❤ they are always so well researched and narrated.

[@howardpalmer7744]

You are truly one of my favorite channels. I enjoy all the different topics you put forth as well as the way you provide them to us. Thanks for all you do.

[@Martin1519]

I actually became a bit obsessed with these abilities, and tried figuring out how I could make myself learn quicker. Needless to say I was unsuccessful. I always considered myself average, but people have always told me I was a very smart person. I always got very good grades in school, and in college. However I was actually a slightly slower learner than my peers. but as a result, I was extremely persistent. Far more persistent than most people. I was always the last to finish a math test, but also one of the highest ranking. But nowhere near the abilities of a savant. Quite the opposite actually since savants typically need very little to no training, and I needed tons of it. I think the moral here is that there are 1000 ways to get to the same destination. Savants just take a shortcut, and everyone els takes the typical path.

[@adronius147]

Persistence is better than being smart in my opinion.

[@omgdodogamer4759]

@@adronius147 objectively youd probably rather want to be able to quickly learn, and remember stuff rather than trying over and over again

[@axiological5468]

​@omgdodogamer4759 Desire is subjective. One might prefer to be persistent rather than intelligent because it's common for intelligent (and talented people in general) to give up when they aren't immediately good at something.

[@omgdodogamer4759]

@@axiological5468 i dont literally mean that you want it, i mean that it would probably be in your best favor to be able to learn quickly

[@craigmak]

@@adronius147a high IQ is definitely better than persistence.

[@tesaculbertson5305]

I've always been a big fan of your channel brother and always seeing exactly how smart you were and how interesting it were content and that proved to be loved to work keep it up and cheers on the success that your channel has brought you have a good day God bless.😮

[@RoseKindred]

This was interesting. I thought at first this video was about people like me. I went through a similar instance at 1:00 and I had developed a "quirk". The best I can describe it is seeing music through color while hearing color in music.

[@fadishaker]

I love your videos, you’re not centered around one subject, you talk about various things, and you add animations and pictures to make it fun, you way of presenting is great, and like generally anyone who like the stuff you talk about MUST like your videos, I hope you keep it up ❤

[@alfreddeyo217]

theyre so freaking good

[@4RILDIGITAL]

The concepts presented here about savants, and how the brain can potentially adapt and unlock unique capabilities is fascinating. It truly begs the question if we all have hidden talents coded within our DNA waiting to be discovered. Looking forward to more thought-provoking content like this.

[@NemesisFromResidentEvil]

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[@powershare2566]

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[@craigmak]

I think most of these incredible talents come at the expense of other normal abilities. It’s like the brain rewires itself to be extremely good at one thing by sacrificing ability in others. I think I would rather be well rounded.

[@Chocochey]

So you’re telling me that MAYBE that fall I had when I was 2 is responsible for my Bipolar disorder AND my cyclical interests? 😂

[@vivienhodgson3299]

Your use of the song of the zebra finch as an illustration put me in mind of a young man I once knew, who had retained a very young child's ability to learn language. He was only 21 years old when I knew him, and already spoke almost fluent French and German, as well as his native English, and had a working knowledge of Dutch and Japanese, yet he had hardly left England as a child, apart from the odd camping trip to France, and had had little contact with foreign speakers. He had 'picked up' his knowledge of Dutch and Japanese from working abroad since he left school, and had learned French and German at school, but as we all know to our cost, school education never gives you the ability to SPEAK a foreign language, only to pass exams!!!! To put it in perspective, I have a French diploma, and have lived in France for 27 years, but I will never have the complete fluency this young man had at 21 years old. He was not a 'savant' in the usual sense of the word, but highly intelligent, with extra brain cells for language ability!

[@incredibleflameboy]

Everyone is amazed by the abilities that Padgett unlocked but nobody mentions how impressive it is that tank put all of maths on a floppy disk.

[@chunkyMunky329]

I've been re-visiting maths as an adult, and am surprised at how little of it there actually is. It just seemed like a lot when we were in school because the teaching methods rely heavily on repetition and on spending a tonne of time bringing our attention to the minute details. But it you wanted to compress it down to the essentials, without repetition or excessive detail, you could definitely fit most or all of it within 1.44 mb. Remember, thats almost 1.5 million letters/numbers/etc. which is close to the length of a typical novel.

[@BrownDaddy007]

Maybe it was a double density disk.

[@wutang80oc39]

Yup, all that repetetion is the reason why public education is not to help you become a thinker, or even give you knoweledge of the world around you. It exists to train you, to follow instructions, to not question authority, to be ok with wasting hours of your time for seemingly no purpose, while discouraging teach work and being docile.

[@BrownDaddy007]

@@wutang80oc39 It's good for training people to stand up and sit down at the sound of a bell, en masse.

[@brianadams3189]

​@@BrownDaddy007Henry Ford approves of this comment. It's not called a child garden(kindergarten) because we teach them to grow vegetables, after all.

[@patbaron8197]

I really enjoyed this video. It’s absolutely fascinating to think how our brains are capable of these unimaginable tasks. I used to work with autistic children. Some were severely disadvantaged but occasionally we would find that one would have a certain ability to do amazing things. One boy could remember every shift, date and time of any staff member instantly. He could also remember the weather on that day he could remember what was for tea, breakfast and dinner. Another boy used to rip up paper into tiny pieces all of which were the very same shape and size, an L shape. Some types of paper were a bit awkward to shape so he would get really angry. We would often find books, toilet paper and the rota torn into thousands of these tiny L shapes.

[@Karanaarta]

It's always great to hear and watch Thoughty2!

[@energybrown]

Another great video! Nice work 🙂

[@kraftykara8009]

I've actually met/know 2 sovants, both congenital. One is a 40 yo man that was a camper at a camp for mentally challenged adults that I was a counselor at years ago. He could tell you every option available like exterior/interior colors available, all of the motor, style, tire options, EVERYTHING for EVERY car going back to the first car. He is amazing. The last time I see him, he had moved on from cars (after knowing everything about them) to boats. The other sovant is a child. He has amazed me since he started reading on his own before he was 2. He has several special interest and knows so much about each and can write in the tiniest print but looks just like a tiny typewriter typed it. He is amazingly awesome too! I never met him, but my dad told me about a guy in his hometown that would walk up to you, introduce himself, and when you told him your name, he would tell you your address and phone number from the phone book. He memorized the local phone book. The brain is so interesting!!

[@DontBeAWollyy]

The phone book guy must have been beat up a few times to start with before he became known

[@d3ad5hot7plays6]

Merry Christmas brother, all the wishes with you keep going

[@Handlelife247]

I love ur videos man u every video is a smile and death vibe I know im to be gone one day but I rack up the nostalgia of future memories and past memories and I keep track of many lessons in ur videos and ur genius detail working thru words ands angles to presentation

[@PhailingMath]

Great video, thanks Thoughty2!

[@toadgamesNL]

A friend of mine from high school never learnt to play the piano but his father used to play the piano, from the moment his father died he could out of nowhere play the piano very well without even being able to read musical notes, this video really reminded me of that

[@rafaelgonzalez4175]

I was sitting at my kitchen table at home during the time I was in the 6th grade. I was writing a book report on Paul Revere. I had most of my report done and while I was covering the report with a book cover that was just brown paper, Kind of like the old grocery carryout bags. My mom walked up behind me and asked me had I finished my book report. I reply yes, and she gets hold of it and proceeds to read it. Very good she said. She put the report down and grabbed one of my pencils. She opened my history book looked down at the illustration of Paul Revere on his Horse holding the lantern and she drew that very illustration on the face on my book report cover. It was right there and then that I knew I could draw. And yes, I can draft mechanical drawings. I can sketch a portrait. I can draw caricatures and cartoons. I can paint a mural. On top of learning two other languages. and three musical instruments. All before the 9th Grade. I graduated HS a year and 3 months early. All because I saw my mom draw a picture from a picture as quickly as she did.

[@hanklane2473]

Thank you for your hard work and the knowledge you share ! Of course the entertaining content you produce. Thanks again Hank

[@mrharry8466]

He has got some really interesting, entertaining and educational uploads. Brilliant channel. All the best to you all.

[@AdnanTraveller]

Enjoyed this video, thank you.

[@MegaSkyline69]

Merry Christmas, Arran. Thanks for making 2023 more bearable old chap. Without your helpful videos and wise words, a few of us might have gone a bit barmy. 👍🏻

[@noobshityou]

Merry Christmas from another stranger!

[@Jaker2123]

I have always found this ‘condition’ absolutely fascinating on so many levels!!! I would love to have the chance to experience it!

[@MyTestAccount-md6tb]

You're an Intelligent person! THAT keeps me coming back for more! Love your channel!

[@thederpydude2088]

I feel like a simpler possible solution (and with fewer potential negative side effects than more direct alterations and modifications to the brain) is to better understand the psychological and/or neurological processes that are involved in learning so that we can more quickly and efficiently make these neural connections and such that allow a person to have certain abilities, skills, and talents. We know we can learn things under a certain period of time, but maybe we'll find ways to learn things faster so that we can more quickly achieve our potentials.

[@tonytor5346]

The mapping of the brain was done about 150 years ago by sticking needle electrodes in different areas of the brain and looking for what happened, . One most documented case is the one from Brocat , a French physician that discovered the language center in the brain. This is known as brain area 32 or Brocat area 52 . Stimulating this area would make the “volunteer” say did Ffernt words. Thi was done in French prisons where detainees who volunteered to take part of the experiment would have part or all of their sentence commuted. This was under the Napoleon empire. His notes are incredibly detailed and I encourage you to do a talk on this particular individual. We now know what most of the brain areas do. Many have multiple functions. Other we have no idea! Of course nowadays using the unethical methods used during the Napoleônic era are unthinkable nowadays. Now we rely on accidents, muggings, people who show up with knives and other objects penetrating the brain. Please keep up the good work Dr. T M.D, MS.

[@HenryofEngland]

Literally one of the best channels on here .never disappoints

[@jacobfrey9961]

thank you for being one of my favorite youtubers since 2014 :)

[@merlin8514]

Outstanding content as always 👌

[@DeductiveReasoning-bg5ly]

an awesome video once again🌟 But one little note, You should have also mentioned the downsides and difficulties that comes along the superhuman abilities that they might unlock! Such as The inability to socialise and to everyone’s surprise, they might have cognitive limitations in regards to other aspects of day to day life.

[@lagomorphia9]

Good point. Im no savant or genius but when I went to do a IQ test the psychologists couldnt come up with a final score because I had severe impairment in a few areas and aced others. From the outside, I pretty much look capable or incapable depending on what skills Im needing to use. So even in mild cases of extremes there will be downsides, without ever having superhuman abilities. Id imagine it would be much worse for savants.

[@aliciarosemusic]

​@@lagomorphia9I had a similar experience.

[@doubledeeeeeeez]

Absolutely believe in the passed down ability theory and head trauma bit. My grandfater on my dad's side repaired tv's in a shop and also worked in a bakery for most of his life. My dad grew up working in the same family bakery. But Electrical repair eludes him. I was asvab'd to show high mechanical but even higher electrical when joining the AF at 17. Was trained by the AF to repair ECM on B-1Bombers also comm nav. Did 7 years of that and I got hired doing Avionics repair on Helicopters in 2000. Been doing that ever since. Also, I was a C-, D average student in High School. Got in a wreck shortly after Graduation, head almost went thru the windscreen. Was in Basic training the very next week. I excelled among my peers in all my AF studies. The world of electronics came natural to me with the training the AF provided. Got my Associates and got out of the AF. Before getting my brain banged up in that wreck I had zero intention of ever going for more education. School was a bore. Post wreck, I was a different person.

[@sixsensebyahands5278]

I’m a Savant in unconditional ‘Love’ ambience as no one else, I was told. So creating emotions as well as arts & music are also brain gifts.

[@mixme8655]

New subscriber always watching your videos ❤

[@cryptocrush-823]

A friend of mine, Frank Healy is extremely rare; he’s the only person in the world with a mind like his. He can recall almost every day of his life including all the details, Weather, meals, and which baseball team played on any given day including the scores and who made them. It’s funny, when we see each other he reminds me of our last conversation, even if it was 2 -3 years ago.

[@davidanderson2357]

Reminds you of every conversation you two had? So... like EVERY. SINGLE. WOMAN. on the planet.

[@CiBi1968]

Marilu Henner ( Taxi 1970's TV series) has a highly superior autobiographical memory, it's basically what you describe .

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

@@davidanderson2357 hurr durr wamen my dude just because you know alot of women that will bring up conservations doesn’t mean they all do it literally know more guys who do it than women

[@pafu015]

It just doesn’t stop with these comments huh? Funny that photographic memory has never been proven to exist and yet everyone thinks it’s a thing.

[@cryptocrush-823]

@@pafu015 If you met him in person you’d understand. Frank is an extremely humble guy with a very exceptional gift.

[@BionicRusty]

If only. 💭 I was born with a musculoskeletal disorder which, even though having tests since the mid ‘60’s, and most recently, more in-depth genetics testing, not a single other case has been found. It has no name and as the major symptoms are my limbs being very different to yours with progressively worse pain, my medication, including copious amounts of morphine, is purely for the pain. Even so, I worked in the able world from 12 years of age, then joined a company where I progressed to an accounts manager. I had to retire recently. My greatest fear as a child was to have mental capacity but be trapped in my body. My greatest fear is rapidly becoming reality.

[@bigture]

try to look at alternative medicine. researh grounding, stay away from fluoride, eat organic, get enough sun try to get in some physical activities and meditations. if what you had tried before is not giving you answers, it can only mean that you need to look elsewhere.

[@BionicRusty]

@@bigture Thank you 🙏 I appreciate the advice. I spent many years (~30) weightlifting 3-4 times a week and through my own trial and error found a routine that kept muscle strong but did not hurt my joints. However, it eventually became too painful so I had to all but give up. Swimming was then my main exercise and in water, the downward stress is lifted and it is bliss. Grounding has also been something that I’ve already done for many years. On my land I spend as much time as I can doing this. Meditation is something that I have tried but found it difficult, but I will certainly give it another good go. Alternative medicine is my wife’s area. We have spent the past two decades trying different things and will continue to do so. I’ve long since stopped thinking that there’s a magical remedy and now, anything that helps I gladly embrace. I certainly don’t like taking drugs but sadly, without them I’d be chair/bed bound. Thank you, again. It’s lifting to know that there are good people out there willing to offer advice 🙏

[@samanthagowen7299]

When I was younger I attended Cherokee camp (free summer camp in my area) and they explained this theory to us of growing brain connections and how it’s easier to shape you’re brain before adolescence or in early adolescence and showed us certain thought exercises and it’s been such a tool. You likely won’t become a savant, but any singular thing you want to master literally just practice, but beyond that when it comes to the arts, just observe over and over and you will grow those brain connection but it has to be engaged thought and processing not just say, listening to music or looking at a painting. Similar concept to the one is this vid

[@Milton2k]

Great video as always.

[@davidlancaster8152]

This is truly fascinating. Just shifting from left to right brained from injury has fantastic effects on cognitive skills like music and art, i can only imagine a complete savant shift. Happy Holidays

[@southcoastinventors6583]

Left and right brained is a myth brain process information in various regions and can rewire itself to perform task in different parts.

[@davidlancaster8152]

@@southcoastinventors6583 no it's not a myth. I've experienced it several times on different levels from different causes. I didn't read it in book till after they happened

[@davidlancaster8152]

@@southcoastinventors6583 control sections for certain memories or functions has never been repeated from alleged experiments but left / right brain function is real and well documented.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

@@davidlancaster8152 I am saying that creativity or art production comes from both parts of the brain there is not a distinction between art and logic by brain side that is what I am referring to.

[@davidlancaster8152]

@@southcoastinventors6583 and I'm saying you're wrong.

[@scottguitar8168]

Some amazing traits run in our family that made me question reincarnation because it seemed like we came with the knowledge already, like we learned it in a past life. I never thought about it being hard wired into our genetics.

[@curiousbystander9193]

epigenetics

[@RAHvdK]

Hey thoughty. I have had a dislesia in my back but the radiologist told me I had a 14 year old back because of the brain flued around my spine at age 28 and being grown fully. I told her at that point it might have been the stress. But I have to be honest, it is a meditational state of over-activating my brain to release these fluids. It costs me physical energy and a calm environment. Also I cannot speak and keep this state up at the same time or hold it for extended periods while being physically or vocally active. The good thing about this state is that it saved me from the need of extra pain killers(morfine shots) after a month or so and I got feeling back in the numb places around my hamstring and leg areas down till the foot. Which where caused by this dislesia. Also I have very young and full hair. It actually grows faster and thicker than many other women and male around me in their late twenties young thirties. But as I kind off lied towards the radiologist I want to get it clear here. Also the more I am able to eat and rest during the day, the more I can use these brain activitys.

[@AugustusAsgeir]

trippy... had a couple head injuries myself and can remember almost every person I've talked to if I wasn't too fucked up, and I remember it as if I was replaying a movie and can hear their exact voice. Can also remember my dreams in vivid detail,the brain is such an interesting thing. Our computer that controls this mecha

[@SmilingIbis]

Most innate talent is usually drummed out of people by the time they finish third grade. We intentionally and systematically destroy creativity in children and call it "education". Imagine Mozart placed in Kindergarten instead of encouraged to learn music. He would be adept at social conformity and pleasing his teachers.

[@o0Donuts0o]

I suppose learning to write, do basic math, learn logic, speak and be social are things not needed. We can all just be encouraged to do that one special thing, no matter how useless. Utopia. That was all sarcasm. Which in itself was sarcasm. I like to be sarcastic across dimensions.

[@antoonhermans8953]

@@o0Donuts0o so you like to be an brainwashed nitwitt ready to perform in society ? no sarcasm here : )

[@frankclough380]

I'm useless at everything, if I have a skill it is screwing things up, I'm very good at that. I like the guitar and I've been learning to play it on and off for over 50 years and I still can't play anything. I can't draw or paint and my math is useless, I need a calculator for everything and now that I'm old I'm starting to forget things. It would be nice to be good at doing stuff, but that is something I will never know about.

[@bradleyboyer9979]

Yup. Basically correct. And if school doesn't do it, we put them on medication to make them "normal." As though our world needs more people who think the same...

[@o0Donuts0o]

@@frankclough380 Not entirely. You wrote complete sentences with the correct punctuation and not a single “lol” in sight. That’s already better than 99% the English I have to read on the internet.

[@johannaverplank4858]

The human brain is amazing. I had a stoke when I was younger due to a genetic condition. I woke up one morning and my left leg wouldn’t work. It was the most bizarre feeling. I knew immediately I’d had some kind of brain injury. I thought I would have to walk with a cane for the rest of my life, but after only a few months I didn’t need one anymore. Now you could never tell. It’s still a bit weak and I’m prone to falls, but otherwise I’m fine.

[@magsmcginty3929]

well done. eat fish, omega 3 fatty fish, my friend. you are one of the chosen.

[@stonemadein]

Amazing stuff! Thanks

[@brettgober4467]

Thank you that was great content

[@grand-ie7qh]

thoughty2 does a nice job teaching pple about interesting topics like all his videos

[@christinewatson1989]

I have SEVERE dyscalculia and I usually tell people I sustained head trauma and that's how I got it because people find that totally believable while believing that someone can be born with the inability to do math is impossible for most people. 🙄

[@stottme1]

I have had dyscalulia all my life. Bottom of the maths class and told ‘there was nowhere lower’. My father was a research scientist who could do calculus in his head. I also have no spatial awareness either and have never been able to draw a cube or perceive depth dimensions. Also I can never remember the last three numbers of any phone number. I agree with you - most people believe that it is impossible for a person not to do maths like not everyone can draw a stick figure.

[@christinewatson1989]

@@stottme1 It's weird how lack of spatial awareness is seldom listed as a core symptom of dyscalculia but I have that too. Also ZERO sense of direction.

[@stottme1]

@@christinewatson1989 Absolutely no sense of direction whatsoever. Also measuring for curtains.

[@stottme1]

@@KMVS8686It’s difficult but not impossible and usually takes a lot longer than most.

[@stottme1]

@@KMVS8686 Odd you say that. I can’t do the 24 hour time. I usually air draw from 1600 onwards. I get 1300, 1400, 1500 and 1600 but after that it’s impossible.

[@mikapeltokorpi7671]

Big brother's scoolmate was able to remember books by one reading. He had it easy at school. Most likely a savant. I am quite good on navigating (as a thumb of rule, I need maximum three times to remember the route). I red like Peek in my teens, but by training rigorously (I literally red a libraryfull of books, peaked at 120-130 pages per hour) following calculation instructions from a book, only - the same goes to calendar calculations (only very briefly as it was not my forte). But not a savant.

[@axle.student]

Thanks, I found this a very interesting topic :) > I have spent a lot of my life looking over aspects of the human condition through the many disciplines + my own experiences (applied). I won't go into the background detail as it would take many years of my life to write a book explaining it. 1. Genetic inheritance is well documented and debated, but is typically limited to the basic for survival. In humans, the most rudimentary of movement, urge to eat, cry etc. If we look at a horse, and many other animals, a foal can be walking withing 20 mins without being taught (Most of our brain capacity goes toward movement as it is the most difficult task). Anecdotal evidence such as what you describe here of people having memory of a particular place out of there family history as well as memories about how to perform some common historical task exist across a lot of literary sources. So, I strongly believe we do inherent some abilities as part of our evolution/learning, even if that was by accidental modification of our genes in an ancestor[s] 2. The mind is malleable both physiologically as well as physically. There is a wealth of evidence that show people, who have suffered injuries such as a stroke for example that are capable of regrowing the neurological connections. For example to regain better arm movement. There is also a great deal of literature suggesting that we can physically modify our brain through rituals such as meditation, habit, willed belief and other techniques. Although it would be unlikely we would suddenly be able to play a piano from the former.