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theoraekensnotsosecretlover · 6 months

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Also can we agree that actually the whole 'savant syndrome' thing is kinda fucked? Like yes, it's a real thing, but its linked with autism so much to the point where not being a genius makes people feel like they're 'not autistic enough'? I've already seemingly failed at being a normal person, the last thing I need is to fail at being autistic too.

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aliyyaharte · 8 months

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#youtube #virus #viral infections #my story #about me #get to know me #get to know the blogger #get to know the creator #get to know the person behind the blog #my life #life is strange #real life #life #talent #savant #savant syndrome #savant art

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promosbrasil · 1 year

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The Good Doctor 6x18 Promo “A Blip”

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televisionpromos · 2 years

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The Good Doctor 6x03 "A Big Sign" Promo - The team treats a famous marriage counselor after she injures her ankle from falling, but when she offers relationship advice to them, Dr. Morgan Reznick quickly spots that their patient might be experiencing something far more serious. Meanwhile, Dr. Audrey Lim is determined to get to the bottom of what really happened in the OR during her surgery and sets off on her own internal investigation on an all-new episode of “The Good Doctor,” Monday, October 17th on ABC. Watch episodes on demand and on Hulu the day following their premieres.

#the good doctor #shaun murphy #freddie highmore #richard schiff #antonia thomas #claire browne #hill harper #marcus andrews #aaron glassman #autism #autistic #autism spectrum #savant syndrome #youtube

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disizscience · 9 months

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"yay bleeding bc stress && vibez... 〰️🩸"

-kat

#be kind #autism #savant syndrome #vibe check

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b3dh3d · 1 year

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Illustration for my Research Project: How neurodivergence affects happiness

(I do not claim nor deny to have any diagnoses of any neurodivergence, this is for a school project)

#art #cartoon #oc artist #neurodivergent #happiness #autism #adhd #ocd #savant syndrome #brain work only sometimes

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bean-galleria · 1 year

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True story from today

Me: hey, dad? What’s 2+5?

An hour later: so 0=5-4y+y^2

#my dad’s an engineer #family of child prodigies #adhd family #savant syndrome #quadratic equations #algebra #mathematics #mathcore

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nulfaga · 1 year

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And do you know what else. i swear i won't speak for a minute after this but do you know what drives me crazy. the fact that, if you don't attend the autopsy, the baron's head wound gets overlooked and disappears from the narrative altogether. the story becomes: the baron was stabbed. you can't point out potential blunt weapons and every time you suspect someone you can only think, "were they strong enough to turn a knife on him?"

i understand it completely on a gameplay level. you get told in so many words to definitely go to this time-sensitive event, so if you manage to still sit it out, you have to suffer the consequences. fine.

on a narrative level, though, how is it possible that between the two of them, florian (who finds the head wound independently if you attend the autopsy) and stolz (a university-trained doctor, as he's very, very fond of saying) can only infer that an inch-deep, awkwardly angled stab wound was the cause of death?

if you do something else during the examination, you later get a note from florian to say that he held off as long as he could, but in the end the examination was "a bit rushed" and he "had no choice but to conclude" that the stab wound was what killed the baron.

i feel like one of two things has to have happened here. 1) florian successfully stalled the autopsy for so long that lady salomea arrived and there was literally no time to do anything but glance at the obvious injury and go "yep, checks out, i guess".

or 2) (and bear with me here): florian managed to stall only for a brief while—he waved off the doctor and told him to fetch the abbot first; stolz and gernot come back; florian is still reluctant to start without andreas; stolz's very short fuse burns out and he petitions the abbot to let him do the examination on his own; and for whatever reason, stolz bungles it. he's either not willing to get his hands dirty or not willing to look further than the (apparently) obvious injury, so he overlooks the head wound and the syphilitic sore and anything else that might be pertinent.

the reason i'm entertaining option 2) at all is mostly because of two particular pieces of dialogue in act II. you sit down for dinner with baltas and the doctor and needle him for details about otto's autopsy, and he steadfastly refuses to breathe a word about it. however:

- if andreas studied medicine, you can mention reading a book by benivieni (an italian physician who made strides by performing numerous dissections) and ask stolz's opinion. he answers that "[benivieni] is far too specialized for my practice. there's hardly a reason any man should be so interested in the anatomy of the dead."

- also w/ the medicine background, you can try and get the gory details from him by saying that you both must have seen your share of dissections in your time at university (therefore it's nbd). stolz answers, "ah, you see, my education was more...theory...than hands-on practice. a reputable institution keeping things clean, you know..."

so doctor stolz, imo, is one of the easiest characters to read based on cues in his dialogue. you can tell in an instant when you've pissed him off or caught him off-guard. additionally, the player will know firsthand that stolz never passes up a chance to show someone up with his superior intellect (calling florian a "battlefield sawbones", or—just try to ask him for help with ferenc's cipher. eesh.)

for those reasons, this particular line strikes me as bizarrely, uncharacteristically tentative: to start with 'ah, you see', to pause before and after the word 'theory', to trail off "you know...".

and fair's fair, it is possible to read this as a savvy lie to get andreas to stop pressing for details, but frankly there's no evidence that stolz has the people skills for that (to intentionally adjust his tone), nor does it seem likely he'd consciously embarrass himself (by admitting that andreas has any sort of advantage on him), even if it was convenient.

so if we take it on faith that he's telling an uncomfortable truth, that his vaunted university education was actually based in theory, and that he has very little—if any—hands-on experience by the time he's made it to tassing, then it's not a huge leap to wonder how qualified he actually was for the two autopsies he's meant to have performed. rothvogel and otto both seemed to have a simple, readily apparent cause of death: it would be easy to take a quick look and confirm the obvious.

florian specifically decides the baron's stab wound wasn't the cause of death because it couldn't have "[issued] forth all that blood we found him in". but if, as the doctor presiding over the autopsy, you hadn't seen enough people bleed to intuit how much blood ought to come out of a stab wound of that depth and in that location, you might not think to keep looking—you might assume it was open and shut, knife killed him, done.

at least in act I the townsfolk pretty unanimously dislike stolz; most of the criticism comes down to his apparent aloofness (agnes says he refuses to step up to help any of the women in town and refers to his "clammy attentions". his journal entry even mentions he's "known for his unpleasant manner".) the only person with a good word to say about him is grett, who tells you in confidence that he's prescribed her a fantastic salve for hemorrhoids. which is interesting, because that's definitely information you can get by memorizing pharmaceutical texts. so it's easy to conclude that he has a solid basis in theory, but falls short when it comes to the human element, things that can only be learned through experience (and not without a measure of humility).

it's also possible that this is what initially kept him from moving to innsbruck and starting a practice there: maybe he intended to (discreetly) cut his teeth practicing in tassing before striking out for an imperial city. but he's so concerned that someone might discover his shortcomings that he turtles up and gets pompous, which leads the townsfolk to avoid him, which keeps him from gaining that practical knowledge, and now it's a feedback loop of bruised egos and failure. sad.

#pentiment #tldr stolz sucks at his job and here's why #honestly i've cited a bunch of in game evidence but even if none of that was there it's still true in my heart.#bc it's boring if he's just a bad tempered maverick like medicine savant house md whose only flaw is his bedside manner #SO much funnier if he's just blind w rage and terror stewing in impostor syndrome 24/7

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dailyunsolvedmysteries · 10 months

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A Brain Injury turned him into a Math Genius

Jason Padgett had dropped out of Tacoma (Wash.) Community College, and was a self-described “goof” with zero interest in academics, let alone math. The only time he dealt in numbers was to track the hours until his shift ended at his father’s furniture store, tally up his bar tab, or count bicep curls at the gym.

With his mullet, leather vest open to a bare chest, and skintight pants, he was more like a high-school student stuck in the 1980s — even though it was 2002, and he was a 31-year-old with a daughter. He would race his buddies in a freshly painted red Camaro. His life was one adrenaline rush after another: cliff-jumping, sky-diving, bar-hopping. He was the “life of the party.” The guy who would funnel a beer before going out and would slip a bottle of Southern Comfort in his jacket pocket to avoid paying $6 for mixed drinks.

Party time came to end the night of Friday, Sept. 13, 2002, at a karaoke bar near his home. There, two men attacked him from behind, punching him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. He fell to the ground as the two men punched and kicked him, stopping only when he handed over his worthless jacket. He was rushed to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a bruised kidney. He was released that same night.

The next morning, while running the water in the bathroom, he noticed “lines emanating out perpendicularly from the flow. At first, he was startled, and worried. Days went by, but the visuals remained. Padgett, who had scored relatively high on IQ tests in elementary school but reached only pre-algebra in high school, soon became “obsessed with every shape in my house, from rectangles of the windows to the curvature of a spoon.” When he looked at numbers, colorful shapes superimposed over them. He stopped going to work and began to read anything he could get his hands on about math and physics. He developed a fascination with fractals and pi.

The doctors called what happened to him a “profound concussion.” Little did they know just how profound it was. Padgett is one of only 40 people in the world with “acquired savant syndrome,” a condition in which prodigious talents in math, art or music emerge in previously normal individuals following a brain injury or disease.

There were downsides that came along with the new Padgett. Once gregarious and outgoing, he now refused to leave the house. He nailed blankets to the window and refused visitors. He became obsessed with germs and washed his hands until they were red and raw. He couldn’t even hug his own daughter until she washed her hands. He began to fear that this wasn’t a gift at all — that it all was a sign of mental illness.

Padgett reached out to Wisconsin psychiatrist Dr. Darold Treffert, the world-recognized expert on savantism who had studied Kim Peek. Via e-mail — and later in person — Treffert diagnosed Padgett with acquired savant syndrome, one of only 30 people identified at the time. Padgett wasn’t alone, and this comforted him. He tore the blankets off the windows and enrolled in a local community college.

He is now an author, artist and mathematician.

#Jason Padgett #medical mysteries #medical conditions #acquired savant syndrome #unsolved

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dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd · 8 months

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A Brain Injury turned him into a Math Genius

Jason Padgett had dropped out of Tacoma (Wash.) Community College, and was a self-described “goof” with zero interest in academics, let alone math. The only time he dealt in numbers was to track the hours until his shift ended at his father’s furniture store, tally up his bar tab, or count bicep curls at the gym.

With his mullet, leather vest open to a bare chest, and skintight pants, he was more like a high-school student stuck in the 1980s — even though it was 2002, and he was a 31-year-old with a daughter. He would race his buddies in a freshly painted red Camaro. His life was one adrenaline rush after another: cliff-jumping, sky-diving, bar-hopping. He was the “life of the party.” The guy who would funnel a beer before going out and would slip a bottle of Southern Comfort in his jacket pocket to avoid paying $6 for mixed drinks.

Party time came to end the night of Friday, Sept. 13, 2002, at a karaoke bar near his home. There, two men attacked him from behind, punching him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. He fell to the ground as the two men punched and kicked him, stopping only when he handed over his worthless jacket. He was rushed to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a bruised kidney. He was released that same night.

The next morning, while running the water in the bathroom, he noticed “lines emanating out perpendicularly from the flow. At first, he was startled, and worried. Days went by, but the visuals remained. Padgett, who had scored relatively high on IQ tests in elementary school but reached only pre-algebra in high school, soon became “obsessed with every shape in my house, from rectangles of the windows to the curvature of a spoon.” When he looked at numbers, colorful shapes superimposed over them. He stopped going to work and began to read anything he could get his hands on about math and physics. He developed a fascination with fractals and pi.

The doctors called what happened to him a “profound concussion.” Little did they know just how profound it was. Padgett is one of only 40 people in the world with “acquired savant syndrome,” a condition in which prodigious talents in math, art or music emerge in previously normal individuals following a brain injury or disease.

There were downsides that came along with the new Padgett. Once gregarious and outgoing, he now refused to leave the house. He nailed blankets to the window and refused visitors. He became obsessed with germs and washed his hands until they were red and raw. He couldn’t even hug his own daughter until she washed her hands. He began to fear that this wasn’t a gift at all — that it all was a sign of mental illness.

Padgett reached out to Wisconsin psychiatrist Dr. Darold Treffert, the world-recognized expert on savantism who had studied Kim Peek. Via e-mail — and later in person — Treffert diagnosed Padgett with acquired savant syndrome, one of only 30 people identified at the time. Padgett wasn’t alone, and this comforted him. He tore the blankets off the windows and enrolled in a local community college.

He is now an author, artist and mathematician.

#Jason Padgett #medical mysteries #medical conditions #acquired savant syndrome #unsolved

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coolerdracula · 1 month

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I want to stop writng notes for this class critique thing but they need my knowledge on autism

#this is hilarious they um #their last draft was DID schizophrenic guy and now they've added that he has an autistic kid with savant syndrome. okay guys #these are neurotypicals btw #bearer of the curse

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soundbulb · 3 months

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when you're not a teenager anymore you start to realize a lot of movies cast people entirely too young to be convincing with their character's history. like you can just hire a 45 year old instead of trying to come up with a ridiculous reason why a 25 year old would have that skill set or educational background or those experiences etc etc

#t #ht #the reason movies and shows are so obsessed with savant characters isn't just the Incredible Man Syndrome #it also means they can hire 27 year olds for roles that clearly only make sense for someone in their forties at the earliest

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promosbrasil · 2 years

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The Good Doctor 6x02 Promo “Change of Perspective”

6 Temporada Episódio 2 Promo

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#the good doctor #shaun murphy #freddie highmore #richard schiff #antonia thomas #claire browne #hill harper #marcus andrews #aaron glassman #autism #autistic #autism spectrum #savant syndrome #o bom doutor #the good doctor promo #the good doctor season 6 #o bom doutor 6 temporada #the good doctor 6x02 #o bom doutor 6x02

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televisionpromos · 2 years

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The Good Doctor 6x02 "Change of Perspective" Promo - On their first day as surgical attendings, Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Alex Park are introduced to the first year residents they will be overseeing, Dr. Danica Powell and Dr. Daniel Perez,who make quite the first impression. Meanwhile, Lim returns to work while facing her new reality and the emotions surrounding the changes on an all-new episode of “The Good Doctor,” Monday, October 10th on ABC. Watch episodes on demand and on Hulu the day following their premieres.

#the good doctor #shaun murphy #freddie highmore #richard schiff #antonia thomas #claire browne #hill harper #marcus andrews #aaron glassman #autism #autistic #autism spectrum #savant syndrome #youtube

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newdayslinguine · 6 months

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morning routine!!

7am: wake up!

7:01am: curse god for, among other things, 1. not using divine intervention to stop me from staying up reading a fanfiction almost double the length of war and peace derived from a piece of media i generally feel negatively about. 2. not making me a savant. 3. the other horrors.

7:02 am: hit snooze

8:30 am: wake up (part two)

8:30 am and two seconds: open instagram. miserably

8:45 am: get out of bed.

#literally how dare he hold out on the savant syndrome. stingy bitch.#(found out today that some savant recently did/is doing a phd at my university. he was my age his first year. like wtf.)

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engagemythrusters · 1 year

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all my rambling in my own posts and in others’ tags being said:

There is still a big issue of the clones being whitewashed and having an autistic character with savant syndrome. This puts Tech in yet another “genius white autistic boy” stereotypical box that is exhausting for everyone not one of those three things (or two, or any).

This is a problem—that’s undeniable.

I am so glad for the autistic representation, but please note it is not perfect. Not everyone is happy, and they’re right to have their frustrations. Represention is wonderful, but a stereotype is a still a stereotype, and it can be quite harmful.

#I just wanted to add that bc I am SO happy but I am also still frustrated about the savant syndrome #maybe give the autism to omega too xoxo then we can have an autistic normal girl!#(unfortunately still whitewashed)#clone trooper tech #star wars: the bad batch #autistic tech

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