[Xmca-l] And an awesome autistic artistic savant

[Greg Thompson]

Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic artistic savant. He was mute until age 5
and used drawing as a way of communicating before he was able to speak.

Here is a short video (apologies for the commercial nature of it - stop the
video at 3:19 to avoid the commercial!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsJbApZ5GF0

And here is a longer (35 min)  documentary about when his life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xklinT2g6wU

Awesome.
-greg

-- 
Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
883 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson