Who hates being a savant?

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I'm not one, so I couldn't tell you.

I don't like not being wanted by people, unless they want to ask me a question. When they get the answer, I get left alone again. I am a person. not a machine.

No you are a dog, man's best friend!

I wouldn't call myself a savant, but I sometimes come off that way; every so often someone will ask me what my IQ is, or if I have a photographic memory, or how it is that I just remember everything. . . .

Which I don't.



On the one hand, I am glad to be intelligent; my brain is, I think, one of the best tools I could possibly have for interpreting the world.

On the other hand, people are sacred of or alienated by it. . and that makes me really sad.
It's hard to be frightning to people based on something that I can't really control, that should be a good thing. It's not like I'm mean. . . or, at least, I try hard not to be mean. .

I even tried to dumb down for awhile. . .
that sucked. word is, don't.

I've never considered myself to be savant, however I think i've been mislead by the portrayal of it in pop culture having read most of these comments and i've seens some similarities in myself with some of whats been said, particularly about memory as I have always been asked how i seem to remember everything, i dont have a photographic memory or anything but i just seem to memorise things without even trying and i can still recite the complete dialog of a conversation i had when i was four, both sides of it, i have every credit card number, online password, bank account login details etc all memorised without ever having tried, hell i got really bored in maths once when i was 14 and worked out Pi to 11 places after the decimal, never tried to remember it but i can still recite it from memory today.

I do web development for a living and specialise in PHP programming, ive never been able to explain it but when i know what the site or system im building needs to do i just sort of see the code for it in my head and just know exactly what code i have to write to make it work, is that connected with being savant?

Do the answers just manifest themselves in your head even at a very advanced level? Could'nt you find a challenge if you looked for one?

Why aren't you at NASA?

But how can you be bored with science? There are so many things to know and so many things that arent known which can be found out, particularly by people with very high ability. I guess that you dont know the equations which relate relativity and quantum mechanics (if they do exist), or what happenned before the big bang - if you do why not tell the world, if not surely this is a challenge for you, and there are many other lesser challenges waiting.

In fact, maybe you can help me with my work?

Yes. . . let's see it, savants; solve quantum gravity.

I am an idiot savant. I am brilliant when it comes to art but brain dead in everything that is useful. Everyone who sees my art says that I am going to be famous one day. But when it comes to things like math, I am completely brain dead and can't solve simple problems. I am bad in almost every subject outside of art.

I recently saw a documentary which stated that there are only 100 (one hundred) true
Autistic savants in the whole world.These include Daniel Tammett and the English artist
Stephen Wiltshire. As a boy Stephen was almost mute but his teachers found that when
given paper and pen he would start to draw buildings from memory with amazing
accuracy.Now 31,he has recently drawn a panorama of London from memory after going on a 15 minute helicopter journey above the city.His drawings show hundreds of buildings
in the right places,with features drawn to scale and even the correct number of windows.

For the rest of us,I'm sure we all have our own gifts but we need to be really really
special to be a savant !