{"id":470,"date":"2008-10-09T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=470"},"modified":"2010-09-10T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T10:11:14","slug":"lucy-dennison-on-talent-and-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2008\/10\/09\/lucy-dennison-on-talent-and-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Dennison on talent and autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/site\/blog\/icons\/lucydennison.jpg\" alt=\"Lucy Dennison\" width=\"160\" height=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Last week I went to a two day discussion meeting at the <a title=\"Royal Society\" href=\"http:\/\/royalsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Society <\/a>on talent and autism.\u00a0 It raised a lot of thought provoking questions, not only about autism but also about wider issues such as the working of the brain.\u00a0 Special skills are far more common in autism spectrum disorders than any other group, but why is this the case?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Do we all have the capacity for special skills, buried deep within our minds?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Most people have come across the link between autism and special talents, or savant syndrome, from the 1980s movie <a title=\"Rain Man\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rain_Man\" target=\"_blank\">Rain Man<\/a>. The film tells the story of Raymond, a man with autism who has an exceptional memory and gift for mathematics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">There are some great moments in the film where Raymond demonstrates these special skills.\u00a0 In one particularly memorable scene Raymond and his brother are served by a waitress in a diner.\u00a0 Raymond reads the waitress\u2019 name badge aloud followed by her telephone number, having memorised every telephone directory entry from A to G the day before.\u00a0 Rain Man is inspired by <a title=\"Kim Peek\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kim_Peek\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Peek<\/a>, a man who had exceptional talent despite developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">At the discussion meeting, a video was shown of another savant, <a title=\"Leslie Lemke\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_Lemke\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Lemke<\/a>, who was severely congenitally disabled, but had remarkable musical ability.\u00a0 When he was 16, Leslie\u2019s adoptive Mother found him playing <a title=\"Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piano_Concerto_No._1_(Tchaikovsky)\" target=\"_blank\">Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Concerto no. 1<\/a> in the middle of the night. He had recently heard the piece on television, and was able to replicate the piece having heard it only once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">A theme throughout the discussion meeting was whether savant syndrome demonstrates a dormant potential in us all.\u00a0 It has been suggested that it is the tendency to pre-occupation and local processing, and the demonstration of a relative skill which releases the special skills in people with autism.\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly a riveting idea.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to know what my special skill would be, unfortunately it\u2019s much too well buried to tell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><strong>Lucy Dennison<\/strong> is a BMJ Clegg Scholar who is currently in her final year studying medicine at <a title=\"Bristol University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bristol University<\/a>.\u00a0 In 2002 she qualified in dentistry from <a title=\"Manchester University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester University <\/a>and has since worked in general dental practice and oral and maxillofacial surgery, before returning to university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I went to a two day discussion meeting at the Royal Society on talent and autism.\u00a0 It raised a lot of thought provoking questions, not only about autism [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2008\/10\/09\/lucy-dennison-on-talent-and-autism\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[101,509,510,508],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students","tag-autism","tag-kim-peek","tag-leslie-lemke","tag-rain-man"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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