Hey guys, in this video, I'm talking about savant syndrome versus
autism and three main differences that are super interesting.
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So, so savant syndrome, not everybody has probably, uh, by this point, seeing rain
man and rain man is a, uh, is a so fun.
Uh he's um, a type of a condition, a neurological mental health condition
combined comorbid, uh, that, um, is.
Of of the nature and they call that savant syndrome.
Now I wanted to deep dive into this because, um, you
know, it's, it's cat Swanson.
I was categorized with autism, uh, but that, but it isn't specifically
autism and autism isn't savant syndrome in a roundabout way.
We're going to get into that when I cover these, um, these
three main differences self.
What I want you to do is show that there are differences between
savant syndrome and autism, because.
People there's some blurred lines there.
A lot of people, when you say, um, you know, my brother's autistic or I'm
autistic or whatever, they instantly think like, Oh, like rain man from the
TV, you know, the, the movie rain man.
And you're like, ah, yeah, well, no, not really because Raymond's
like a savant, but it's, it has its place in the autism spectrum.
And um, if I was to say like this, you have like an autism spectrum like this.
Right.
You have people who are.
Who have like ADHD right over here.
And then you have people all the way down here who have like savant syndrome.
So there's, there's a really big kind of broad spectrum and simple.
The autism spectrum is all about, and it's a beautiful, big, awesome spectrum.
And I think that's amazing.
So without further ado, we're going to get into this.
Right now.
Okay guys.
So number one, savant syndrome is actually super rare.
Now I've written down some notes here.
So savant syndrome is an extremely rare condition.
And in fact, it's so rare that there's fewer than 50 people in the world
who are sevants there's few that I remember I can off the top of my head.
There's a guy called Daniel who lives in the UK.
There's a pianist who I've met.
Um, I can't remember his name now.
He's, uh, he's also blind and I met him.
There is a guy called, uh, Kim Peak.
He died, unfortunately.
Um, and he was called like the human Google.
And, um, there was another guy, um, uh, a man of color who was able
to like draw out the entire, a map of London, um, from an, uh, from
just flying around in a helicopter.
And he went back and made like a 360 kind of like picture of it.
I don't know if you remember that anyway.
So this is how rare this is super, super rare.
Uh, whereas autism, right?
You think about this autism diagnosis impacts one in a hundred people in
the UK and one in 60 in the US so, you know, per hundred people in the
UK, one of them has an autism spectrum disorder and per 16 in America, a
person has an autism spectrum disorder.
When you take into consideration, the entire population of the world is like,
what, six and a half, 7 billion people.
Right.
Or whatever.
Um, or maybe it's even more than that now.
50 salons in the whole world.
So that's like it's super, super rare.
So savant syndrome actually is, is super rare, but autism isn't as
rare and is, and is more way more common, uh, than savant syndrome.
So there you go see super different.
Okay.
So number two is autism has narrow interests.
Now this is a really interesting one.
I want to pick up on now I've done videos all about like autism and
obsessive interest, and I'll try and leave a link to a video above here
and on the end slate for autism and, uh, you know, The, the obsessive
interest kind of traits of autism.
But for instance, I would want to talk about this and I want it
to pick this up as a difference between autism and savant syndrome.
It's very interesting people with autism have been very
narrow set of interests, right?
Um, like, so you can like really, really hone in on something and like,
everybody knows what I'm talking about.
If you're on the spectrum, we know somebody on the spectrum
that gives you a thumbs up.
If you were linked to what I'm saying right now, If you are on the
spectrum, then you know, that you'll have a specific set of interests.
Like it could be, um, you know, Thomas, the tank engine or trains in general
or Pokemon or Minecraft or whatever it is that you know, everything about it.
And that's your main thing.
And nothing really sways from that.
One of mine is fight club.
I dunno if you could guess, but, you know, anyway, uh, what as, um,
Sevant Syndrome on the hand, um, they'll have one or two exceptionally
amazing interests, like, like.
Exceptionally amazing.
Like the gentleman that I met when I was doing a keynote talk for an
autism conference, um, he came up and he played this just incredible,
um, piece of music on a piano.
He was just absolutely fantastic.
Um, he, he absolutely just blew me away.
And then I got home at night and was just like watching videos of him playing piano.
Cause it was just amazing.
I think he's, he was sort something like Richard, something.
I can't remember his name.
Goodness, me.
But, um, he was so, uh, famous that when his train broke down on the way
here at Richard Branson and, uh, the guy who owns Virgin trains called
for him to have a taxi driving from wherever they were to the, to the event.
And that was kind of crazy, but yeah, he was really cool, but he was also blind.
He had co-occurring condition, um, of, uh, you know, partially sighted blindness.
I think he was completely blind actually, but yeah, very interesting.
But yeah, he had a very.
Uh, extremely amazing interests, uh, and yeah, a couple of other
interests as well, but it was really interesting knowing that people with
autism are very narrow interests.
People with savant syndrome have kind of broad spectrum.
Uh, like for instance, the guy Daniel, well from the UK, um,
he actually has, uh, he's got fascination with different things.
Like I think he has the world record for seeing the amount of numbers that come
after PI cause he's a mathematician.
I think he has like a degree in mathematics, I think as well.
Um, uh, but he also is.
He loves math.
But he also really is fascinated with languages and he's like
exceptionally good at math.
He's also exceptionally good at languages.
And one of the most interesting things I found about this gentlemen is that when
he was explaining how maths work in his brain, he doesn't calculate things like
we do our brain fires in a way we were starting to compute and calculate things.
Whereas Daniel knew land.
Almost like the answers just came to him from nowhere.
He's bring didn't line up with any kind of cognitive behavior to say that or
neurological behavior to say that there was a calculation going on, he just knew.
And he said that it was kind of like pictures and they, and
the numbers just fit together.
Like, like jelly beans slotted together and like a weird jellybean puzzle.
It's a very interesting, um, experience.
And, and I, I really highly recommend that from watching that I can't remember
his last name, but if you do know, drop it in the comments down below,
so everybody else can kind of get a feel for what I'm talking about here.
So I'm not just babbling on for ages.
Okay.
So number three is savant syndrome, uh, and mental disabilities, not
savant syndrome is characterized with co-occurring mental health disabilities.
Uh, you know, like, you know, you could have, um, savant syndrome and then
you can have intellectual disability.
You could have smart syndrome and like selective mutism or a whole host
of other mental health disabilities.
Whereas, um, autism.
Uh, on the other hand, like autism is just neurological and most of
the time has mental health disabil disabilities co-occurring so savant
syndrome is categorized because it is a mental health condition
as well as neurological impairing.
So it's hard to explain, but yeah.
So autism is a neurological condition only, and then it has
co-occurring mental health conditions.
Whereas savant syndrome is kind of a fusion of like mental health,
um, intellectual disability with neurological development.
So it's, it's kinda like fuse together, whereas autism kind of separate out
mental health too from neurological conditions, which is fascinating.
Um, I really feel like people with savant syndrome and just so fascinating and it
absolutely lights me up when I see them.
Doing like something amazing.
Like, Whoa, I wish I was that cool.
Like, but yeah.
Very interesting.
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