There are savants in the world who are capable to great skills and memories like the artist savant who memorized what all of NYC looked like and sketched it out from memory. Are non-savants capable of things like this or do savants brains work differently due to being on the spectrum?

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There are savants in the world who are capable to great skills and memories like the artist savant who memorized what all of NYC looked like and sketched it out from memory. Are non-savants capable of things like this or do savants brains work differently due to being on the spectrum?

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Answer 1

Not all savants are on the autism spectrum. But all savant have abnormal brains in some manner. So no, a non-savant person is not capable of doing what they do.