Guest guest Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 It's always special to see people with savant abilitys " in action. " In the documantary on the special edition Rain-man dvd there is a man who has perfect pitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 Hi, I appreciate their savant abilities, but it's the fact that the guys are putting up with all the questions and doing their best and flapping and rocking that I am really impressed with. You just don't get to see good footage of stimming like that often. I just get a warm feeling for them when I watch it. I hope they had a good living situation with people who loved them. Camille > > It's always special to see people with savant abilitys " in action. " > In the documantary on the special edition Rain-man dvd there is a man > who has perfect pitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 What year is the footage from? >I hope they had a good living situation with people who loved them. I hope so to. > >Reply-To: AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse >To: AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse >Subject: Re: wowee kahzowee, george and charles in the >files >Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:13:45 -0000 > > >Hi, > >I appreciate their savant abilities, but it's the fact that the guys >are putting up with all the questions and doing their best and >flapping and rocking that I am really impressed with. You just don't >get to see good footage of stimming like that often. I just get a >warm feeling for them when I watch it. > >I hope they had a good living situation with people who loved them. > >Camille _________________________________________________________________ Lättare att hitta drömresan med MSN Resor http://www.msn.se/resor/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 Hi, I haven't figured out exactly where the footage was done and by whom. I went searching for " and " calendar savants and found that those are the names of the names of a pair of identical twins who were " popular " or something in the 1960's. the Film and their clothing, etc, sure looks like 1960's to me. I think I hear a New York accent from the quieter brother...but I'm no expert on that. I can't see how the two on the film could be identical twins, not at all. I wonder if someone put the wrong names on this video or something. From a website: " These identical twins were a set of triplets that were born three months premature, but the girl had died a couple of hours after birth. " OK, now I have never heard of a pair of identical twins plus a fraternal triplet. That's weird. " When they about 3 years old they both were displayed head banging, hand biting, and destructiveness. They were not really close until they were 9 years old, where they were sent to Letchworth Village in New York State, for about six years. In a report provided by Dr. Arthur Holstein of Letchworth Village gives some details about the boys calculating and mathematical abilities. " When asked in what years April 21st will fall on a Sunday, each will answer correctly 1968, 1957, 1963, 1946, etc. When encouraged, can continue as far back as 1700. When asked in what month of the year 2002 does the 1st fall on a Friday, gave March, February, and November-correct answers. They cam also tell you correctly that the 4th Monday in February, 1993 is the 22nd or that the 3rd Monday in May, 1936 was the 18th. This is even more impressive when we note that like many other calendar calculators reported, and cannot add, subtract, multiply, or divide simple single-digit numbers. For example, the product of 3 X 6 might be given as 8. Although they cannot add up to 30, when given your birth date, they can accurately tell you it is 30 weeks until your next birthday or 13 weeks since you last had a birthday. can tell you the year a particular famous man in history-for example Washington- was born and how old he would be if he were alive today. " (Treffert p. 38) " I have to look in my textbook to see if there is some kind of reference to them... Camille > What year is the footage from? > >I hope they had a good living situation with people who loved them. > I hope so to. > > > >From: " Camille " <oddizm@g...> > >Reply-To: AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse > >To: AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse > >Subject: Re: wowee kahzowee, george and charles in the > >files > >Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:13:45 -0000 > > > > > >Hi, > > > >I appreciate their savant abilities, but it's the fact that the guys > >are putting up with all the questions and doing their best and > >flapping and rocking that I am really impressed with. You just don't > >get to see good footage of stimming like that often. I just get a > >warm feeling for them when I watch it. > > > >I hope they had a good living situation with people who loved them. > > > >Camille > > _________________________________________________________________ > Lättare att hitta drömresan med MSN Resor http://www.msn.se/resor/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 Camille, It sounds to me like the two men, whether twins or not, were savants in the memory sense. If they can't calculate the dates as I do, it takes a lot of memory work to memorize the fourteen calendars in the 28 year cycle and also adjust for the shift than occurs each century since the " 00 " years are only leap years when divisible by 400. Jerry Newport > > Hi, > > I haven't figured out exactly where the footage was done and by whom. > I went searching for " and " calendar savants etc.... If anyone wants to learn how to calculate calendar dates, I will post my own method. It just takes a little practice. I recently sent it to Josh Hartnett. I have his cell phone # and the bidding, for ladies only, starts at $10,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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