[Xmca-l] Re: And an awesome autistic artistic savant

[mike cole]

Yep that is awesome, Greg.
mike


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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