I got punched in the head once and woke up and became smarter too. The next time I ducked Holy crap! I’ve never gotten over 30 likes on a comment let alone current 2.4k thanks!! Haha that punch to the head really did me some good
O man that's funny . I hauled off and punched this guy charging me. He was chubs when I hit him square in the face it felt like I punched a bag of marshmallows! I gasped...then keyed in on his forehead! LoL...I've never been hit that hard before. I'm surprised I didn't drop .but he hit me pretty square about 3 times I could feel my brain bouncing back in forth in my skull....I'm a little smarter too! Ha ha ha....it was over a cigarette! The next day I ran across him offered him a cigarette .. we laughed. Jimbo ( 250lbs) took off his hat and said...look what you did to me...you kicked my butt.. I felt lucky to walk away from that! Anyway...his whole forehead was one big scab! LoL....I only weigh a buck fifty
My son is 11 now and is on the autism spectrum, he knew his numbers 1 through 50 and could count to 25 in Spanish and knew his letters before he was 2 but he had the most trouble with simple things. Now at his age he’s in the top 3 percent of his middle school in math and is part of an academically intellectually gifted program for math, can solve a scrambled Rubin cube and put a mario Lego square together in 6 hours but can’t tie his shoe. It really amazing how the brain functions
@@JEsterCWit's not just about the cube. And just because you know there's an algorithm to solve a rubiks cube, most people don't even know what an algorithm is.
I completely understand. As a child, I excelled in specific areas (mainly mechanics, physics, etc.), but always was the odd one out. Never fit in. I was different, but they couldn't pinpoint what. They took me to therapists who said I had adhd. And autism wasn't a thing back in the 80's or 90's (at least the awareness of it). I mean, I maxed out the Gt (general technical) sub section of the military asvab at 17. More than people with a bachelor's in mechanical engineering. At 18 I was rebuilding hmmwv engines without any trouble. So it was clear I was different. Now at 38 with a 12 year old officially diagnosed with autism, I see everything in him that I was. I think maybe I subconsciously copied others to fit in and that's who I've become now. That's the only way I was able to fool people into stop treating me like a child. After realizing I might be autistic, I obsessively took test after test to confirm, and sure as shit, all the websites said I raised all the red flags and should seek professional help. But I'm too scared. The closure. And I don't see what benefits it would do for me now. But just know as your son grows, hell find ways to adapt. Like I did. And my son will.
It makes sense, with autism too. Damage or other reasons causing different parts of the brain that normally have good connections, to be weak. So, the brain compensates and makes strong connections within that specific area of the brain. Resulting in specialization, while most people's brains are general use tools.
monkey cheeseburger pie Venice hoodie beach ice cream chair hickory spider lambo Michael Knight kool aid swing set river cat ungowa click boom pop truck guitar. That is what is in my brain. 😵💫🥴t
Did anyone else manage to connect the 9 dots with 4 lines? I also figured out that it's possible to connect all 9 dots with just 3 straight lines (since I wasn't sure wether the lines are allowed to cross, so i came up with 2 solutions). I don't have savant syndrome but diagnosed ADHD and probably undiagnosed Aspbergers
I think Savant only really happens if you connect the dots in the right way. There is no guarantee that bloking or changing neural paths will make you smarter but it will likely change you regardless. I think we can learn a lot on how to make our neural paths more efficient through these changes. I'm on the spectrum and I ended up being good at the unimportant things.
@@pedrov.8087 Good answer, but I will never put in enough time to be considered ok where there are people who can play "through the fire and the flames" on 2x speed.
My mom works with adults with developmental disabilities (autism, down syndrome, etc.) and the prevalence of savants is astounding. When you lose one gift you really do fain another tenfold
@@sudokuacrobatics I mean I guess it’s your brain compensating for what you lost. Kind of how when someone loses one sense your others become heightened
It took me a while to harness what had happened and turned it into an ability instead of a disability, 8 years ago I was blindsided in my right temple with a hammer fist. Nerve damage to my nose upper lip right Temple, sigmatic fracture with a broken eye socket hairline fracture to my jaw and six broken teeth on one side. My right eyeball was popping out of its socket and they monitored me for almost 12 hours. I'm literally way more articulate and analytical than I was before along with mushrooms has helped reconnect my synapses and strengthen those connections in my brain. I learn about neurology biology and physics for fun and half the time don't remember it just so I have to watch it again, I forget or remember at will now, nobody I know does that or cares. I remember things like a computer sometimes besides numbers cuz I hate numbers; give me enough time to study one subject and I'll tell you everything about it to a T. The only thing I hate is how angry I get now because of it. These things happen and it is a miracle.
This is just a bunch of rationalist nonsense. Not to mention the complete unreliability of self-report and self-evaluation when it comes to psychology. Like humans are literally biologically incapable of self-evaluation accurately
Paradoxical that brain damage can lead to excellence in certain fields! I remember reading about an average man who had an accident involving a blow to his head who afterwards became mathematically gifted.
More terrifyingly. There have been cases of brain cancer that turned people into pedophiles. The case I am thinking about, he had near uncontrollable urges that vanished with the removal of the brain cancer, but came back as the cancer recurred.
the other side of brain compensate and form new connections, reminds me of the case of a girl have surgery to remove half of her damaged brain because a disease but after recovery she live a completely normal life and even graduated university apparently the other half of the brain compensate the missing part
I’m no savant but when I was 9 years old in fourth grade gym class I accidentally ran into the corner of the gym wall full speed smashing my head pretty bad and leaving me very concussed. Before that I was a terrible student, super hyperactive, not caring about school or sports or anything apart from videogames and regular kid stuff. A few months after that knock on the head in the summer before grade 5 something inside of me changed, like I suddenly felt motivated to change myself, get good grades, become faster/stronger/more athletic, smarter, basically improve every aspect of myself and become confident in my abilities. I used to be the slowest kid in my grade and made it my goal to succeed in the yearly track and field meet the next year, and would practice sprinting up and down my backyard and being more involved with sports during the school year.I was a C student before and I quickly applied myself and wouldn’t settle for anything less than an A. I changed what I wore and cut my hair differently. I noticed I just could understand things and my teachers+peers considered me a gifted student, whereas the year before I was a completely unathletic idiot. I have no clue if my new outlook in life was due to the head trauma or just being fed up with who I was at the time, but my personality changed so profoundly it’s crazy not to think it had something to do with it.
When a baseball hits a hard surface, the baseball bends and “goes along” due to the elasticity properties of it, same would work with certain sneakers ( the bending property), a man was assaulted outside of a bar and he got kicked in the head and acquired Savants, I wonder if this “elastic” impact that goes along with the “original” trauma is the one responsible for the damage and “repair order” of the neurons allowing them to cause savants instead of just amnesia, I know it’s a long shot but iam pretty sure everyone who has read about acquired savant would think about.
Would just like to point out that most brain damage doesn't result in amnesia. The effects can vary wildly depending on the region damaged, and amnesia only occurs if memory regions like the hippocampus are damaged. If you don't get damage there, it's not going to cause amnesia whether you get savant syndrome or not...
Not every illness is seen as a curse. Some illnesses such the one that’s being discussed in this video actually could be a blessing. Sure living could be different before getting an illness, but almost every person has a unique experience with living and coping with an illness or disability/disabilities.
As a Teen who actually has savant syndrome, when I was 9 I was interested in physics and how things work, my native language is NOT English but somehow I never learnt English in the first place I still don't know what happened to me at the age of 9, I was interested music and art, now I'm 15 and I already know calculus 3, Idk how it's happened to me, I hope you'll read it, Thx!
Had a friend that received surgery for a tumor on the back of his brain. He lost some body stability functions but gained a photographic memory. Simple quick glance at any page of text and he could recite it all back
A kid down the street from me with autism was a math whiz. Something like 6 years younger than me and like 1 year behind me in math. And it’s not like I was bad at math, I was taking math 2 years ahead and this kid was basically right behind me and acing it!
If both an autistic and neurotypical person hit their head in the same place, I wonder if the autistic person is more likely to develop savant syndrome or not. I also wonder how this works for other neurodivergences.
@@recoveringsoul755 I don't think it causes autism, just similar symptoms in some cases (which wouldn't even necessarily be savant syndrome). I'm just wondering how this works if the person hitting their head is autistic to begin with.
I can remember an episode of distinct, powerful awareness of self-awareness as a toddler. Possibly even pre toddler. I was crawling on the living room or dining room floor and happened upon a tasty looking electrical cord (I believe it was to a lamp). Adults were just around corner in kitchen. And then I hit pay dirt. And that shock ignited my inner self. Lots of inner dialog, super heightened awareness, with powerful sensibilities of me being an agent (a self) in a cause and effect world. And being in awe of the mental change…totally aware that the shock decidedly established a distinct before and after. I would later in childhood experience two more such jumps. Didn’t result in any savantism. But maybe it shocked me out of a path that had me slated to be a complete stone cold idiot. Or yes…funny guy…shocked me up to that level. 🤫
It's interesting. As I was a little baby, my mother let me fell down from her arms to the steps, that hurt my head and I had to stay for that traumatism at the hospital for several weeks.i remember very some events of m'y early yeaes, as I was less than three and even less than 2,5 ( my sister was born.when I was 2,5). At the babies garden, I remember how I solved remote a kind of puzzle and was shocked.another baby failed, while another succède but manipulating it. At 3, I was able to name every car model. Then I décidéd once to remember everything in my life but realieed I had to spend my recalling a pyramidal amount of facts and telling myself it in sentences. Then I learned to read by myself begore school. But I hated school. I was fond of numbers and after a yeae suddenly brilliant in solfege. However, I could not be at all considered a genius. In logics, I beated everyone, but not in maths : I was only able to succeed in "my""things, I needed to understand by myself and not to listen everybodu else. At the end, I studied maths, but my approach kept différent than the one of other students. The lecture seemed easy to me, but I was not really good at the exams. I always wondered if that early traumatism has playef a role in my special intelligence...
Can relate man, I have memories from like when I was a toddler as well around the ages of 2-3, I remember going on a vacation to Florida in like 2006-2007, It was around the fourth of july, and I remember vividly sitting at the beach looking at fireworks in the sky & seeing my dad fish and caught some huge red fish, then going to the grocery store couple days after & at the time this was out called "fruit loops cereal straws" i was obbessed with eating them when I was on that vacation, I was around 2-3 mind you & I just looked up recently to see if they brought them back & they did, and I was so happy, I also have another memory of running around in my diaper at like age 2 going up & down stairs.
yes, i fell backwards and hit my head on concrete when i was a kit. after that accident i became introverted where before i was extroverted. I noticed that i started to filter my thoughts before i said them aloud. even people around me noticed it that i wasnt talking much like i use to. Today, im known by some for my work that involves art, creativity and engineering.
Same with me, i also hit my head while jumping, only to hit my head on ceiling and fall down. After then i became introverted lacked all the social skills, no physically talents on sports. But now, i am good at nothing🙂
I had a concussion as a toddler. Not sure what I was like before then, or after really. At 14 I had a seizure and was diagnosed with epilepsy. Now almost 50 years later I am realizing I am probably autistic.
Something I think that needs to be made clear is that savant syndrome does NOT make you smarter. U just earn a new ability, but it can also very likely come with side affects such as having hard time socialising and multiple physical disabilities. A guy in Got Talent read a whole book in a few minutes on stage, reading two pages at the same time and then he told the entire book word by word. It’s cool and all but he also couldn’t walk and he felt very lonely due to his lack of socialising skills. So in conclusion, having savant syndrome is actually not just cool. It can be very bad too.
Take any matter, smash it and get new physical connections. If people were able to unfold the brain we would have a very large flat piece of grey matter with lots of surface area. Our brains function by connecting neurons. The more surface area the more connections. The more connections the smarter we are. These particular people in this story were very fortunate that new connections were made. We more often die from these types of blows.
As a boy, I had a very difficult time in Grade School. I flunked 5th grade twice. As I look back, I think I had something called absentseizures. (I learned about absentseizures on TH-cam. ) I would be sitting in class and everything would get blurry for a few minutes, and then I would snap out of it. I flunked 5th grade twice, as a matter of fact I did very poorly in the other 4 grades. One day, I landed on my head. I was walking home from a Boy Scout Meeting with my Boy Scout Patrol. We were walking down a hill. It was dirk. One of my friends yelled "TIRES". I remember dodging one tire, then I ran to get off the street. The lat thing I remember is sticking my left foot into a tire speeding down the hill. (I flew up into the air and landed on my head, although I don't remember that) The next thing I know, I was laying on these people's couch with an ice pack on my head. My mother was there, and she drove me home. I went to bed, woke up and went to school. In those day, you didn't go to the emergency room, unless you need stitches or had a bone broken. After that the absentseizures weren't as bad. My wife notices my mind drifting off, and she jokes me about. After the hit on the head, I became a solid C student, graduated from high school (never flanking a class) and graduated from College. The absentseizures have never been as bad as grade school. Althoug when I concentrate on a problem, I will go into a trance like state. I work as an Electrician. I sometimes work up on a 40 ft. ladder. I will go into a deep concentrated state, that I start to enjoy it. Note: when I landed on my head. I hit the right side of my head above my ear, but below the top of my head.
@@marchbelongee I found out the same way, sort of. It hurt me in grade school, but school was boring. I don't consider it a handicap now, because I can go into intense concentration.
@@jamesmooney8933 bad part is that sometimes I'm even riding my bike and cycling unconsciously and then suddenly I snap out of it, but it's always on my daily route so it's like a reflex of mine to dodge anything that comes in my way.
@@marchbelongee I was a truck driver. Sometimes after a long run, I wonder how I got to where I was. I was in the right place, but couldn't recall about 10 miles back. Did I stop at all the red lights? I was on automatic pilot
Depending on whose data you read, between 20 & 40% of males with aspergers syndrome also have ambliopia. It's nearly always the left eye that is called lazy. Nothing wrong with the eye but the neural network that operates it.
@@co-null5599 and high functioning autism is distinctly characterised by childhood verbal development issues that aspergers does not and the proponents of 'outdating' the term fail to make that distinction. 100% of medical and psyche ' professionals' I've consulted are completely unaware of the fact in my original comment - as were you. That's why you tried to nitpic nomenclature to seem superior...
I could still vividly remember that fateful day when my brother-in-law hit me in the head with a bat so hard it knocked me out for 5 hours. Afterwards, when I woke up, I felt my head was foggy and fuzzy. This was probably the result of sleeping for so long in the middle of the day, or so I thought. Although my brain was foggy, all my other senses were heightened. I felt like I could perceive everything at once. In a way, it felt counter-intuitive, I was experiencing everything but at the same time my brain was still blank. It was almost like my brain capacity had increased so much that such trivialities couldn’t hold it back anymore. I could do maths in seconds now. I could see scenarios playing out in my head before they happen. It was a life-changing moment.
Well, it also comes with downsides, there was a man who was capable of drawing entire cities from memory, but he couldnt tie his shoelaces and couldnt wear suits with buttons
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Still smarter than others in certain things but of course you feel the need to insult people with syndromes in order to make yourself feel better. What a thing to be proud of.
@@Vik1919 I'm not sure that was necessarily supposed to be an insult, that's the original name of it, and it was later changed because the connotation of the word "idiot" had changed
Video on either of these topics please: Will neural implants/BCIs replace smartphones & smartglasses in the future? Or Will rejuvenation therapies & gene editing be able to successfully cure aging?
6:41 the puzzle is intentionally made to be unsolvable with trickery (imprecise rules). So, the possibility of drawing outside the box isn't presented, as the background is too small and you wouldn't consider it to be allowed to draw outside, as you'd reach the borders. I even found multiple solutions to the puzzle when drawing outside the area.
I smashed my head quite badly on a marble top table when I was about 5 years old, I work in the fields of science, art and music but I am not certain this is a result of that accident but it is a possibility my skills were intensified due to the injury.
So if you're going to get hit in the head, better to get hit on the left than the right I suppose. All my head injuries as a child were located centrally. Damn.
I was in a similar situation as this guy, I was once injured after being caught in a stampede. After getting discharged from the hospital I was able to understand everything better! And then I woke up.
I had a brain haemorrhage many years ago and underwent almost 8 hours brain surgery, was paralysed, hemiplegic for around two years. I'm not saying I have savant syndrome but (on the good side), I certainly seem to have an ability that I guess is a bit unusual. Sometimes Memories (old and new), play in my head like video recordings. If I have a conversation with a friend or friends, Weeks later I will remember the conversation... that's normal I guess but where it becomes Unusual is I will remember 'What was said', 'Who said what', 'Where we were', Where we were standing', even what clothes we were All waring when we had the conversation... There is a Lot more to it than that but I'm pretty sure that's Not 'Normal', so to speak. But on the Bad side of things I still have a host of problems.
@@User-jr7vf Don't be 'Sorry to say it', we all think in different ways. Besides, I'm sure your fine. For me personally, however, that 'video tape' type memory is the least of my problems, I have others that can be very confusing and distressing and some others which, sadly, are very serious.
that's called hyperthymesia~ There is a china guy called 水哥 (王昱珩) who has that too from birth. To this day he remembers the exact seating positions of every kid on the first day of his toddler class at 3 years old. He has more abilities than just this memory thing, he has super micro observational ability where he can difference water out of 500 cups super fast
"Here we demonstrate that after ~5 minutes of visual deprivation, sounds can evoke synesthesia-like percepts (vivid colors and Klüver form-constants) in ~50% of non-synesthetes." "Participants (N = 103) were exposed to mathematical problems without knowing that a hidden rule allowed solving them almost instantly. We found that spending at least 15 s in N1 during a resting period tripled the chance to discover the hidden rule (83% versus 30% when participants remained awake), and this effect vanished if subjects reached deeper sleep." "LSD produces synesthesia by selectively activating serotonin 5-HT2A receptors." My hypothesis is that the left ATL inhibits synesthesia also, as cathodal stimulation left ATL, while it has benefits, has been shown to eliminate cross-category advantage in the color-word stroop test, possibly suggesting that the left ATL separated the text and color information as distinct information, in order to perform the stroop test better. This is further proven by cathodal stimulation of the left ATL inducing savantism, which is often the result of integration of sensory information and lack of distinction between different sensory stimuli. I'm not a neuroscientist, so I could just be completely wrong... Anyways, you should learn about V. S. Ramachandran who know a lot about these kind of subjects. I wish I could meet him.
the "hyperactive behavior" part is ADHD, smth that unfortunately tends to get confused w/ being on the Austim Spectrum cause, although that's not to say that you can't have ADHD as an accompanying disorder
when you have autism you are often very hyperactive and it's not always adhd. for example talking to autistic children they would often avoid eye contact at all costs and run around while fiddling with stuff and you'd have to often often tell them to try and focus. that's my experience helping out
After realizing how simple the dot problem was: I wonder if it’s just because we are conditioned to think a certain way, and when the “wiring in the brain “ gets changed to make the creative side compensate for the logical side of the brain, it allows a person to “think outside the box”…..literally
When I was 18 my dad tied me up with rope and kicked me in me on the left side of my head and my left ear drum bursted and spewed blood to his amazement. I feel there is no exam I cannot pass unless there are trick question and may God bless my head.
I'm autistic and I have a supernatural ability to build and put things together, I also have the abnormal ability to create and visualize things (drawing, painting, sculpting, photography, etc). Right now the biggest interference with creating is money. I want to do woodworking, because it's a extremely creative feild, but I have a hard time with school. I think I'm just going to find a job as a helper and work my way up to being an apprentice. Idk I'll figure it out.
You can use 3 straight lines to connect the dots. You can make an N shape but slightly angle the lines so that they touch each dot, but not necessarily go through the middle of them.
I busted the back of my head from falling while in elementary school. Knocked me out for 10 or so seconds while my teacher and other students watched me. Apparently I was convulsing as well. When I woke up, it started what I can only describe as my stream of consciousness, or that self aware part that continues through time. Kickstarted might be a better term... I'm sure I'd have it regardless. But the growth that same year in becoming self aware was staggering. From that point on I never felt on the same wavelength as my peers. Felt like I wasn't a kid anymore in a strange way I cannot explain. Maybe unrelated. But one of the deep truths I know but can't ever prove.
When I was 10 I wrote my first book in my language (not English) and although I didn't hit my head anywhere I hit a new level of consciousness too. I have such a great understanding that ONLY those classified as brilliant among adults were able to understand me. For the regular adults, most of what I say go over their heads and I have to repeat myself. Although not a genius, I'm autistic and female. Double strength. Wali LLAHi l hamd.
I had a car accident In which I smashed my head into the steering wheel but forgot it had happened for 8 months. I had some personality issues that took a long time to get over (namely having more than 1) but besides that I had an extrodinary spiritual awakening and saw and felt things that have been described across many religions and by many spiritual leaders. My experiences are so extrodinary that describing them to most people will come off as me having gone temporarily insane. But I believe it was more akin to me seeing the true nature of reality. (A side note, I never believed in any sort of higher power, nor was I religous and had never studied any religious text before my experiences)
Savant syndrome could seemingly also be a symptom/trait in people on the autism spectrum are born with however not everyone on the spectrum will have this trait due to how each individual on the spectrum has their own unique set of traits! :)
wow!! great insight!! maybe you have savant syndrome because of how intelligent you are!! jesus christ, mfs just be stating the obvious lmao. people are different? wow! who knew!
The solution to the 9 dot problem can be solved easily without going outside the lines unless the original rules state that the line must be with one beginning and one end. Straight line across any side and three perpendicular lines.
I took a PET scan and my left side of the brain specifically temporal frontal cortex had very little activation. Im pretty smart snd academicamly succesful so i wasnt expecting such an unlit brain.
This has happened to me as well. In 2017 I had a grand mal seizure while standing up and landed on the back of my head spliting the back of my head open. Weeks later after recovering I started noticing how fast I could process information and how calculate things. It goes much deeper than that but yes, this is a real thing.
If the idea is straight lines, you could do this in 3 moves, just a straight but angled line that goes through all 3 rows, 1 line at a time. Doesn't have to go outside the shaded box.
I can remember car plate numbers that I saw in 2005 up to date so easily... Back in primary school my mates used to be astonished how easy I would do that.
great video not sure if it counts as savant syndrome, since that could just be related to autism in general but I always had a talent for anything related to math and logic Nebenbei, wie gehts denn so?
hey, ich glaube das hängt nur mit Autismus zusammen, denn ich bin auch gut in Mathe und ich bin sehr gut in Biologie und vor allem Chemie. Ich denke das hängt damit zusammen, dass Autisten (oder Menschen mit Autismus) ein gutes Logikverständnis haben und mit Fakten besser umgehen können als mit Dingen bei denen man verschiedene Sachen interpretieren kann. LG
@@maestro3887 Ja das hab ich mir eigentlich schon gedacht Hab auserdem vergessen Biologie und Chemie zu erwähnen (obwohl ich meine Ausbildung darin hab)
nothing to do with savant syndrome, you just have a natural aptitude to learn math and logic, same as everyone who are prone to learn easier in other areas as well. savant syndrome is much more accentuated in regard that they specialize in a area of being almost a genius.
Being gifted and being savant are quite different. A savant doesn't even need to try. A gifted person only start better than the others in his skills and will improve faster than the others. You sound more like a gifted person than a savant.
This man is telling to risk my life to play cricket. I got hit in the head and I was bleeding out and I only changed my personality, now I am from the one that is always frustrated to the most chilled person
No wonder my dad used to hit me in the back of my head everytime I did something wrong. It's like a second hand machine being slapped when it stops working😂😂
I wouldn’t force fate to become a savant that risk is just stupid and will be punished by karma. I am happy being in awe of these brainiac super brains and happy to find ultimate prolific ness in a large variety of sports and knowledge. These people are an inspiration and I find it awesome that they are incredibly exceptional.
I swear to god, if I ever receive a head injury and wake up knowing dates on a calendar I am going to be so pissed. At least let me wake up knowing how much of a tip I have to leave.
I've got AS, but I'm no savant. I do have a generalized high IQ though, with the exception of social interactions. Whether it's painting, singing, learning instruments, physics, math, other logical fields or learning languages.. I do it faster than most others. When it comes to logic based IQ tests I'm over 160. Sometimes I wonder if the brain injury I had at birth allowed me to become stronger in other fields, but suffer socially, or if the injury simply robbed me of the ability to tie it all together and communicate what I learn better.
When I was kid, I knew someone in the neighborhood hit by a baseball. He was known as a kid with a few missing screws. After he got hit, he missed more screws ended up being schizophrenic.
Hey! I used the following studies for the last segment: "Brain stimulation enables the solution of an inherently difficult problem" "The savant syndrome: an extraordinary condition. A synopsis: past, present, future" "Savant-like Numerosity Skills Revealed in Normal People by Magnetic Pulses" The first and the third study were both approved by the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committe (the second is a general review of Savant syndrome). Hope that answers your question!
As someone who struggles with multiple mental illnesses/disorders including ASD, and whose parents claim that, when I was very young, my mom accidentally hit my head slightly against the rear view mirror in the car (even though that probably doesn't have anything to do with it, but still), and who has been told (and partially agrees) that he has a big musical talent/gift, AND plays piano by ear, AND has perfect pitch...! (a.k.a., literally all of what he stated in the video), I can't help but wonder if I might have Savant Syndrome? But enough about me. Thank you for making this video. It was a very cool video and brought a lot of awareness to people like me who have never even heard of this before!
When I was in 5 grade, My Hindi Teacher beat me like hell in front of whole class (because of some misconception between me and the other student) she hit me with everything she could find, even i got Bruises all over my body. And guess what - After that i TOPPED in HINDI 😂, i was so scared that i lost in the subject and topped the whole class even surpassed the Class Topper 🤣
But didn't most of us former kids in little league baseball (and all ball sports, I suppose) get hit by a ball in the head, at one time or another ?? This has made me to consider perhaps childrens baseball was the secret behind last century's American success upon the World scene, for at the different times we emergered, we were a moral nation playing National ball games, as a pastime; not playing the Nation's streets as gunners with a grudge. ... ... As for Savant syndrom, sure makes sense.
I surely cannot have SS, but I have Asperger's disease, and I have learned 9 foreign languages, although I only speak 4 of them (English, Sweidhs, german, Japanese; my mother tongue being Hungarian, i.e. helping f**k-all with any other language) fluently/conversationally. I've never had ANY family members being interested in/good at languages; so my mother, who is also a psychiatrist, proposed that this might be because of my mild Aperger's. I've never boasted about this ability of mine, nor do I think I'm more (or less, for that matter) than others, but since you've made this video, I thought I'd share it. Nevertheless, I'm proud of my achievements, since I'm woking (and have worked) hard on learning these languages and I enjoy being creative with them :D I don't just "learn" them by hearing grammar rules once or sg. like that, I actually have to put effort into them, but for me it's just fun to do so.
@@Tribuneoftheplebs French just never piqued my interest, to be honest, I've never found it that interesting and never really liked the sound of it, so I just never learned it. But since I've already learned Spanish, it wouldn't be too hard for me to get into, should I decide to learn it :D
@@domonicsdaniel4497 if you have learnt Spanish im sure you can also learn portuguese. They have a similar vocabulary (because they are literally next to each other and Portugal separated from Spain way back in 1143.)
If only the kids at my school were this fortunate. Unfortunately the most their brains can process is human reproduction and how everything relates to Among Us for some unknown reason.
Somehow I doubt this was caused by the injury. But you see, what happens when we go through notable experiences to us, is our self-awareness grows and we learn something about ourselves. Going through temporary or permanent life changes, sensations, experiences we have to overcome, we undergo personal growth through adersity - that can unlock all kinds of un ventured avenues of our brains, and we come to realize we were capable of things we never even thought about - because we had been too focused on one thing or ability, to realize we've grown in other areas. This is basically the whole premise of flicks like The Karate Kid, at least it used to be. I don't think getting your brain scrambled, makes you smarter because of the injury - Actually I think that's just a silly take. The brain is scientifically poorly understood, even with all the things we know today - sciences is guess work, estimations, approximations backed up by fractions of proof gathered through research - but that doesn't mean we know conclusively how it works still, and we probably never will quite understand the way the brain works, the mind and our conscience. But it's more likely for that boy to have learned he had this innate talent after a bout of trauma, than it is for the trauma to have suddenly awakened this Savant Syndrome.... Maybe, to some extent - it s the same thing.
My brother has high functioning autism and the first year when he joined robotics, he did all of the programming on the robot and made it to worlds. He is very smart and I am insanely proud of him. He plans to go to worlds 4 years
To amarug, many things about what you said happened to me, also in my school a few weeks ago I finished the I-Ready math diagnostic and got pretty much the highest score in my grade which is 4th grade, I was the 1st person to get a score higher than my grade in 4th grade (it happened in 3rd too) and I later found out that I was the first to do it in 20+ YEARS
No wonder we feel the need to smash our heads to walls out of frustration when we can't seem to understand or study something.
time to fix a magnet on the left and right of your head..
Yo! That was a brilliant correlation
yeah, we're trying to course correct
ROFLMAO lol nice 👌 👍 👏 😄
ahhahahahah
Had the same accident but I became even dummier than I was before.
Same bro
you can order neodymium magnets and fit one on your left head
life is unfair lol
@@fidelcatsro6948 I'm going to try. Thanks.
*dumber
Sorry dude/girl 😂😂
I got punched in the head once and woke up and became smarter too. The next time I ducked
Holy crap! I’ve never gotten over 30 likes on a comment let alone current 2.4k thanks!! Haha that punch to the head really did me some good
hahahahaha
It’s not funny
@@kristymay1342 Yes it is
O man that's funny .
I hauled off and punched this guy charging me. He was chubs when I hit him square in the face it felt like I punched a bag of marshmallows! I gasped...then keyed in on his forehead! LoL...I've never been hit that hard before. I'm surprised I didn't drop .but he hit me pretty square about 3 times I could feel my brain bouncing back in forth in my skull....I'm a little smarter too!
Ha ha ha....it was over a cigarette! The next day I ran across him offered him a cigarette .. we laughed. Jimbo ( 250lbs) took off his hat and said...look what you did to me...you kicked my butt.. I felt lucky to walk away from that! Anyway...his whole forehead was one big scab! LoL....I only weigh a buck fifty
@@kristymay1342 haha you stopped by to type “it’s not funny?” now that’s funny Karen
Bro really got some sense knocked into his head. 😂
My son is 11 now and is on the autism spectrum, he knew his numbers 1 through 50 and could count to 25 in Spanish and knew his letters before he was 2 but he had the most trouble with simple things. Now at his age he’s in the top 3 percent of his middle school in math and is part of an academically intellectually gifted program for math, can solve a scrambled Rubin cube and put a mario Lego square together in 6 hours but can’t tie his shoe. It really amazing how the brain functions
Solving rubiks isnt anything fancy tho lol, you can solve it with repeating only one algorithm without any fancy knowledge.
@@JEsterCWit's not just about the cube. And just because you know there's an algorithm to solve a rubiks cube, most people don't even know what an algorithm is.
I completely understand. As a child, I excelled in specific areas (mainly mechanics, physics, etc.), but always was the odd one out. Never fit in. I was different, but they couldn't pinpoint what. They took me to therapists who said I had adhd. And autism wasn't a thing back in the 80's or 90's (at least the awareness of it). I mean, I maxed out the Gt (general technical) sub section of the military asvab at 17. More than people with a bachelor's in mechanical engineering. At 18 I was rebuilding hmmwv engines without any trouble. So it was clear I was different.
Now at 38 with a 12 year old officially diagnosed with autism, I see everything in him that I was. I think maybe I subconsciously copied others to fit in and that's who I've become now. That's the only way I was able to fool people into stop treating me like a child. After realizing I might be autistic, I obsessively took test after test to confirm, and sure as shit, all the websites said I raised all the red flags and should seek professional help. But I'm too scared. The closure. And I don't see what benefits it would do for me now. But just know as your son grows, hell find ways to adapt. Like I did. And my son will.
@@JEsterCW lets take a step back. 6 hours is a long time to solve a rubiks cube. If you memorize a simple algorithm, it would take
@@charlestannehill7537 They do know cause they do attend to a school *(just joke, i know watcha mean)*
It's amazing how something like dementia can actually lead to greater abilities in other areas
It makes sense, with autism too. Damage or other reasons causing different parts of the brain that normally have good connections, to be weak. So, the brain compensates and makes strong connections within that specific area of the brain. Resulting in specialization, while most people's brains are general use tools.
monkey cheeseburger pie Venice hoodie beach ice cream chair hickory spider lambo Michael Knight kool aid swing set river cat ungowa click boom pop truck guitar. That is what is in my brain. 😵💫🥴t
@@Aubatronwe see this in adhd and working memory deficits too. both groups compensate with genuine higher levels of creativity
This video is very well made... I could definitely see this channel blowing up. Good Luck Man!
Did anyone else manage to connect the 9 dots with 4 lines? I also figured out that it's possible to connect all 9 dots with just 3 straight lines (since I wasn't sure wether the lines are allowed to cross, so i came up with 2 solutions). I don't have savant syndrome but diagnosed ADHD and probably undiagnosed Aspbergers
I think Savant only really happens if you connect the dots in the right way. There is no guarantee that bloking or changing neural paths will make you smarter but it will likely change you regardless. I think we can learn a lot on how to make our neural paths more efficient through these changes. I'm on the spectrum and I ended up being good at the unimportant things.
Like rythm games?
@@pedrov.8087 Good answer, but I will never put in enough time to be considered ok where there are people who can play "through the fire and the flames" on 2x speed.
How does anything make sense what u said..
@@mitaskeledzija6269 I misspelled blocking, I don't think making sense of my ramblings is worth everyone's time.
@@benji-menji hmm.. ok ig
My mom works with adults with developmental disabilities (autism, down syndrome, etc.) and the prevalence of savants is astounding. When you lose one gift you really do fain another tenfold
indeed
How come?
@@sudokuacrobatics I mean I guess it’s your brain compensating for what you lost. Kind of how when someone loses one sense your others become heightened
@@Yasuk3 that isn't true
@@sudokuacrobatics what isn’t?
It took me a while to harness what had happened and turned it into an ability instead of a disability, 8 years ago I was blindsided in my right temple with a hammer fist. Nerve damage to my nose upper lip right Temple, sigmatic fracture with a broken eye socket hairline fracture to my jaw and six broken teeth on one side. My right eyeball was popping out of its socket and they monitored me for almost 12 hours. I'm literally way more articulate and analytical than I was before along with mushrooms has helped reconnect my synapses and strengthen those connections in my brain. I learn about neurology biology and physics for fun and half the time don't remember it just so I have to watch it again, I forget or remember at will now, nobody I know does that or cares. I remember things like a computer sometimes besides numbers cuz I hate numbers; give me enough time to study one subject and I'll tell you everything about it to a T. The only thing I hate is how angry I get now because of it. These things happen and it is a miracle.
This is just a bunch of rationalist nonsense. Not to mention the complete unreliability of self-report and self-evaluation when it comes to psychology. Like humans are literally biologically incapable of self-evaluation accurately
Bro you trollin
Bro contracted ADHD or something
I think bro got hit too hard💀
@@aljon5947😂😂😂😂
One day we will figure out how to accurately execute these things in our brains and fully unlock them
Paradoxical that brain damage can lead to excellence in certain fields! I remember reading about an average man who had an accident involving a blow to his head who afterwards became mathematically gifted.
More terrifyingly. There have been cases of brain cancer that turned people into pedophiles.
The case I am thinking about, he had near uncontrollable urges that vanished with the removal of the brain cancer, but came back as the cancer recurred.
It's called Jason Padgett
@@TheActualCorrectOpinion Thanks!
the other side of brain compensate and form new connections,
reminds me of the case of a girl have surgery to remove half of her damaged brain because a disease
but after recovery she live a completely normal life and even graduated university
apparently the other half of the brain compensate the missing part
Ayo!, saw the same video
I’m no savant but when I was 9 years old in fourth grade gym class I accidentally ran into the corner of the gym wall full speed smashing my head pretty bad and leaving me very concussed. Before that I was a terrible student, super hyperactive, not caring about school or sports or anything apart from videogames and regular kid stuff. A few months after that knock on the head in the summer before grade 5 something inside of me changed, like I suddenly felt motivated to change myself, get good grades, become faster/stronger/more athletic, smarter, basically improve every aspect of myself and become confident in my abilities. I used to be the slowest kid in my grade and made it my goal to succeed in the yearly track and field meet the next year, and would practice sprinting up and down my backyard and being more involved with sports during the school year.I was a C student before and I quickly applied myself and wouldn’t settle for anything less than an A. I changed what I wore and cut my hair differently. I noticed I just could understand things and my teachers+peers considered me a gifted student, whereas the year before I was a completely unathletic idiot. I have no clue if my new outlook in life was due to the head trauma or just being fed up with who I was at the time, but my personality changed so profoundly it’s crazy not to think it had something to do with it.
Good story, about to run into the wall full speed, I’ll keep you updated
I hit something too, when I was young. and it changed every aspect of my life
it was puberty
Maybe the stronger the head trauma the bigger the benefit
Brb im gonna grab a hammer
Update: gahhavebfhchsmwbrjfjsnwn🤤
Found a plane to jump off of with my head down, I'll keep you updated
When a baseball hits a hard surface, the baseball bends and “goes along” due to the elasticity properties of it, same would work with certain sneakers ( the bending property), a man was assaulted outside of a bar and he got kicked in the head and acquired Savants, I wonder if this “elastic” impact that goes along with the “original” trauma is the one responsible for the damage and “repair order” of the neurons allowing them to cause savants instead of just amnesia, I know it’s a long shot but iam pretty sure everyone who has read about acquired savant would think about.
Would just like to point out that most brain damage doesn't result in amnesia. The effects can vary wildly depending on the region damaged, and amnesia only occurs if memory regions like the hippocampus are damaged. If you don't get damage there, it's not going to cause amnesia whether you get savant syndrome or not...
When I first started reading your post. I was skeptical. I think your theory is as good as all the ones I have heard.
Maybe an huge rubber dildo do the trick
Not every illness is seen as a curse. Some illnesses such the one that’s being discussed in this video actually could be a blessing. Sure living could be different before getting an illness, but almost every person has a unique experience with living and coping with an illness or disability/disabilities.
As a Teen who actually has savant syndrome, when I was 9 I was interested in physics and how things work, my native language is NOT English but somehow I never learnt English in the first place I still don't know what happened to me at the age of 9, I was interested music and art, now I'm 15 and I already know calculus 3, Idk how it's happened to me, I hope you'll read it, Thx!
Try to make alien technology
Had a friend that received surgery for a tumor on the back of his brain. He lost some body stability functions but gained a photographic memory. Simple quick glance at any page of text and he could recite it all back
A kid down the street from me with autism was a math whiz. Something like 6 years younger than me and like 1 year behind me in math. And it’s not like I was bad at math, I was taking math 2 years ahead and this kid was basically right behind me and acing it!
He's probably ahead of you now.
If both an autistic and neurotypical person hit their head in the same place, I wonder if the autistic person is more likely to develop savant syndrome or not. I also wonder how this works for other neurodivergences.
I had heard it's possible for a TBI to cause autism, sounds like what may be going on here
@@recoveringsoul755 I don't think it causes autism, just similar symptoms in some cases (which wouldn't even necessarily be savant syndrome). I'm just wondering how this works if the person hitting their head is autistic to begin with.
The condition to replicate the baseball incident would be complex. Like the area, pressure, impact length, condition on the brain etc
Lets test it
@@sparrow_solas ill volenteer
I can remember an episode of distinct, powerful awareness of self-awareness as a toddler. Possibly even pre toddler. I was crawling on the living room or dining room floor and happened upon a tasty looking electrical cord (I believe it was to a lamp). Adults were just around corner in kitchen. And then I hit pay dirt. And that shock ignited my inner self. Lots of inner dialog, super heightened awareness, with powerful sensibilities of me being an agent (a self) in a cause and effect world. And being in awe of the mental change…totally aware that the shock decidedly established a distinct before and after. I would later in childhood experience two more such jumps. Didn’t result in any savantism. But maybe it shocked me out of a path that had me slated to be a complete stone cold idiot. Or yes…funny guy…shocked me up to that level. 🤫
bro got updated
software update
It's interesting. As I was a little baby, my mother let me fell down from her arms to the steps, that hurt my head and I had to stay for that traumatism at the hospital for several weeks.i remember very some events of m'y early yeaes, as I was less than three and even less than 2,5 ( my sister was born.when I was 2,5). At the babies garden, I remember how I solved remote a kind of puzzle and was shocked.another baby failed, while another succède but manipulating it. At 3, I was able to name every car model. Then I décidéd once to remember everything in my life but realieed I had to spend my recalling a pyramidal amount of facts and telling myself it in sentences. Then I learned to read by myself begore school. But I hated school. I was fond of numbers and after a yeae suddenly brilliant in solfege. However, I could not be at all considered a genius. In logics, I beated everyone, but not in maths : I was only able to succeed in "my""things, I needed to understand by myself and not to listen everybodu else. At the end, I studied maths, but my approach kept différent than the one of other students. The lecture seemed easy to me, but I was not really good at the exams.
I always wondered if that early traumatism has playef a role in my special intelligence...
Sounds like a great origin story for a super hero 😂
Can relate man, I have memories from like when I was a toddler as well around the ages of 2-3, I remember going on a vacation to Florida in like 2006-2007, It was around the fourth of july, and I remember vividly sitting at the beach looking at fireworks in the sky & seeing my dad fish and caught some huge red fish, then going to the grocery store couple days after & at the time this was out called "fruit loops cereal straws" i was obbessed with eating them when I was on that vacation, I was around 2-3 mind you & I just looked up recently to see if they brought them back & they did, and I was so happy, I also have another memory of running around in my diaper at like age 2 going up & down stairs.
yes, i fell backwards and hit my head on concrete when i was a kit. after that accident i became introverted where before i was extroverted. I noticed that i started to filter my thoughts before i said them aloud. even people around me noticed it that i wasnt talking much like i use to. Today, im known by some for my work that involves art, creativity and engineering.
Same with me, i also hit my head while jumping, only to hit my head on ceiling and fall down. After then i became introverted lacked all the social skills, no physically talents on sports. But now, i am good at nothing🙂
I had a concussion as a toddler. Not sure what I was like before then, or after really. At 14 I had a seizure and was diagnosed with epilepsy. Now almost 50 years later I am realizing I am probably autistic.
Just sound like normal side effects of getting older
@@shibuki_anime I also hit my head and don't brain good.
@@MyLegsAreKindaLong exactly
Something I think that needs to be made clear is that savant syndrome does NOT make you smarter. U just earn a new ability, but it can also very likely come with side affects such as having hard time socialising and multiple physical disabilities. A guy in Got Talent read a whole book in a few minutes on stage, reading two pages at the same time and then he told the entire book word by word. It’s cool and all but he also couldn’t walk and he felt very lonely due to his lack of socialising skills. So in conclusion, having savant syndrome is actually not just cool. It can be very bad too.
Yeah, it's a double edged sword.
I'd rather be a savant and non social than being both dumb and non social.
Except if ur a savant u might not be able to walk, or control your body well
Take any matter, smash it and get new physical connections. If people were able to unfold the brain we would have a very large flat piece of grey matter with lots of surface area. Our brains function by connecting neurons. The more surface area the more connections. The more connections the smarter we are. These particular people in this story were very fortunate that new connections were made. We more often die from these types of blows.
As a boy, I had a very difficult time in Grade School. I flunked 5th grade twice. As I look back, I think I had something called absentseizures. (I learned about absentseizures on TH-cam. )
I would be sitting in class and everything would get blurry for a few minutes, and then I would snap out of it.
I flunked 5th grade twice, as a matter of fact I did very poorly in the other 4 grades.
One day, I landed on my head. I was walking home from a Boy Scout Meeting with my Boy Scout Patrol.
We were walking down a hill. It was dirk. One of my friends yelled "TIRES".
I remember dodging one tire, then I ran to get off the street. The lat thing I remember is sticking my left foot into a tire speeding down the hill. (I flew up into the air and landed on my head, although I don't remember that)
The next thing I know, I was laying on these people's couch with an ice pack on my head.
My mother was there, and she drove me home. I went to bed, woke up and went to school.
In those day, you didn't go to the emergency room, unless you need stitches or had a bone broken.
After that the absentseizures weren't as bad. My wife notices my mind drifting off, and she jokes me about.
After the hit on the head, I became a solid C student, graduated from high school (never flanking a class) and graduated from College.
The absentseizures have never been as bad as grade school. Althoug when I concentrate on a problem, I will go into a trance like state. I work as an Electrician. I sometimes work up on a 40 ft. ladder. I will go into a deep concentrated state, that I start to enjoy it.
Note: when I landed on my head. I hit the right side of my head above my ear, but below the top of my head.
Now that I've read your story I think I've absent seizures too, i never knew it's abnormal for people to have these
@@marchbelongee I found out the same way, sort of.
It hurt me in grade school, but school was boring.
I don't consider it a handicap now, because I can go into intense concentration.
@@jamesmooney8933 bad part is that sometimes I'm even riding my bike and cycling unconsciously and then suddenly I snap out of it, but it's always on my daily route so it's like a reflex of mine to dodge anything that comes in my way.
@@marchbelongee I was a truck driver. Sometimes after a long run, I wonder how I got to where I was.
I was in the right place, but couldn't recall about 10 miles back. Did I stop at all the red lights? I was on automatic pilot
Depending on whose data you read, between 20 & 40% of males with aspergers syndrome also have ambliopia.
It's nearly always the left eye that is called lazy.
Nothing wrong with the eye but the neural network that operates it.
Except Aspergers is an outdated term and no longer used in the medical field. It is now high functioning autism
@@co-null5599 and high functioning autism is distinctly characterised by childhood verbal development issues that aspergers does not and the proponents of 'outdating' the term fail to make that distinction.
100% of medical and psyche ' professionals' I've consulted are completely unaware of the fact in my original comment - as were you.
That's why you tried to nitpic nomenclature to seem superior...
lol okay so I might have that then, because I do have a lazy left eye and undiagnosed adhd, which I heard is similar to autism/aspergers
Fascinating. I'm a woman diagnosed with ASD and have a left eye that is lazy 🤔
Wow! I mean i have aspergers and have a lazy left when tired, amazing how that works!
Why did the baseball player become a genius after getting hit in the head?
Because it knocked some sense into him!
Mike Tyson made quite few men to be savants.
I could still vividly remember that fateful day when my brother-in-law hit me in the head with a bat so hard it knocked me out for 5 hours. Afterwards, when I woke up, I felt my head was foggy and fuzzy. This was probably the result of sleeping for so long in the middle of the day, or so I thought. Although my brain was foggy, all my other senses were heightened. I felt like I could perceive everything at once. In a way, it felt counter-intuitive, I was experiencing everything but at the same time my brain was still blank. It was almost like my brain capacity had increased so much that such trivialities couldn’t hold it back anymore. I could do maths in seconds now. I could see scenarios playing out in my head before they happen. It was a life-changing moment.
Yeah no I made this whole thing up 💀💀
@@CrestalusI’m crying bro 😭😭😂😂
@@Crestalus based.
Well, it also comes with downsides, there was a man who was capable of drawing entire cities from memory, but he couldnt tie his shoelaces and couldnt wear suits with buttons
Do you mean Stephen Wiltshire?
But this one I believe can tie his own shoelaces and often wears suits with buttons.
They’re called idiot savants
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Still smarter than others in certain things but of course you feel the need to insult people with syndromes in order to make yourself feel better. What a thing to be proud of.
@@Vik1919 I'm not sure that was necessarily supposed to be an insult, that's the original name of it, and it was later changed because the connotation of the word "idiot" had changed
@@Vik1919That was the actual term for it at one point
Video on either of these topics please: Will neural implants/BCIs replace smartphones & smartglasses in the future? Or Will rejuvenation therapies & gene editing be able to successfully cure aging?
I'll be back in a minute I'll just tape a magnet to my head first 🧲
6:41 the puzzle is intentionally made to be unsolvable with trickery (imprecise rules). So, the possibility of drawing outside the box isn't presented, as the background is too small and you wouldn't consider it to be allowed to draw outside, as you'd reach the borders. I even found multiple solutions to the puzzle when drawing outside the area.
Baseball: I'm about to start this man's whole career.
I smashed my head quite badly on a marble top table when I was about 5 years old, I work in the fields of science, art and music but I am not certain this is a result of that accident but it is a possibility my skills were intensified due to the injury.
or you culda been a genius but it limited you lol
@@iloveappleslalala I don't feel limited. 😊
I have the reverse-savant syndrome😒
So if you're going to get hit in the head, better to get hit on the left than the right I suppose. All my head injuries as a child were located centrally. Damn.
I was in a similar situation as this guy, I was once injured after being caught in a stampede. After getting discharged from the hospital I was able to understand everything better!
And then I woke up.
I had a brain haemorrhage many years ago and underwent almost 8 hours brain surgery, was paralysed, hemiplegic for around two years. I'm not saying I have savant syndrome but (on the good side), I certainly seem to have an ability that I guess is a bit unusual. Sometimes Memories (old and new), play in my head like video recordings. If I have a conversation with a friend or friends, Weeks later I will remember the conversation... that's normal I guess but where it becomes Unusual is I will remember 'What was said', 'Who said what', 'Where we were', Where we were standing', even what clothes we were All waring when we had the conversation... There is a Lot more to it than that but I'm pretty sure that's Not 'Normal', so to speak. But on the Bad side of things I still have a host of problems.
that's cool man! glad you're feeling better
Sorry to say, but I also have this type of memory and I have never suffered anything to my head.
@@User-jr7vf Don't be 'Sorry to say it', we all think in different ways. Besides, I'm sure your fine.
For me personally, however, that 'video tape' type memory is the least of my problems, I have others that can be very confusing and distressing and some others which, sadly, are very serious.
Isn't this normal? I've always lived like this
that's called hyperthymesia~ There is a china guy called 水哥 (王昱珩) who has that too from birth. To this day he remembers the exact seating positions of every kid on the first day of his toddler class at 3 years old. He has more abilities than just this memory thing, he has super micro observational ability where he can difference water out of 500 cups super fast
I've been knocked out a couple times and I'm pretty sure I just get dumber each time. Plus I get headaches often. Good times.
I wonder if there is some way we could figure out how to induce savant syndrome effectively.
there is going to be a way in the future---a safe, medical procedure that induces it.
"Here we demonstrate that after ~5 minutes of visual deprivation, sounds can evoke synesthesia-like percepts (vivid colors and Klüver form-constants) in ~50% of non-synesthetes."
"Participants (N = 103) were exposed to mathematical problems without knowing that a hidden rule allowed solving them almost instantly. We found that spending at least 15 s in N1 during a resting period tripled the chance to discover the hidden rule (83% versus 30% when participants remained awake), and this effect vanished if subjects reached deeper sleep."
"LSD produces synesthesia by selectively activating serotonin 5-HT2A receptors."
My hypothesis is that the left ATL inhibits synesthesia also, as cathodal stimulation left ATL, while it has benefits, has been shown to eliminate cross-category advantage in the color-word stroop test, possibly suggesting that the left ATL separated the text and color information as distinct information, in order to perform the stroop test better. This is further proven by cathodal stimulation of the left ATL inducing savantism, which is often the result of integration of sensory information and lack of distinction between different sensory stimuli. I'm not a neuroscientist, so I could just be completely wrong... Anyways, you should learn about V. S. Ramachandran who know a lot about these kind of subjects. I wish I could meet him.
You make some really good intuitive conclusions/hypotheses on the videos I’ve seen so far! Great stuff!
the "hyperactive behavior" part is ADHD, smth that unfortunately tends to get confused w/ being on the Austim Spectrum cause, although that's not to say that you can't have ADHD as an accompanying disorder
when you have autism you are often very hyperactive and it's not always adhd. for example talking to autistic children they would often avoid eye contact at all costs and run around while fiddling with stuff and you'd have to often often tell them to try and focus. that's my experience helping out
After realizing how simple the dot problem was: I wonder if it’s just because we are conditioned to think a certain way, and when the “wiring in the brain “ gets changed to make the creative side compensate for the logical side of the brain, it allows a person to “think outside the box”…..literally
When I was 18 my dad tied me up with rope and kicked me in me on the left side of my head and my left ear drum bursted and spewed blood to his amazement. I feel there is no exam I cannot pass unless there are trick question and may God bless my head.
amen
ill drink to that
Hoping you heal and get away from toxic people in your life 🙏
I just saw a video that if you can solve wave particle duality, you become the Einstein of our age
I'm autistic and I have a supernatural ability to build and put things together, I also have the abnormal ability to create and visualize things (drawing, painting, sculpting, photography, etc). Right now the biggest interference with creating is money. I want to do woodworking, because it's a extremely creative feild, but I have a hard time with school. I think I'm just going to find a job as a helper and work my way up to being an apprentice. Idk I'll figure it out.
This is literally a real life superhero origin story
You can use 3 straight lines to connect the dots. You can make an N shape but slightly angle the lines so that they touch each dot, but not necessarily go through the middle of them.
I busted the back of my head from falling while in elementary school. Knocked me out for 10 or so seconds while my teacher and other students watched me. Apparently I was convulsing as well.
When I woke up, it started what I can only describe as my stream of consciousness, or that self aware part that continues through time. Kickstarted might be a better term... I'm sure I'd have it regardless. But the growth that same year in becoming self aware was staggering.
From that point on I never felt on the same wavelength as my peers. Felt like I wasn't a kid anymore in a strange way I cannot explain.
Maybe unrelated. But one of the deep truths I know but can't ever prove.
When I was 10 I wrote my first book in my language (not English) and although I didn't hit my head anywhere I hit a new level of consciousness too. I have such a great understanding that ONLY those classified as brilliant among adults were able to understand me. For the regular adults, most of what I say go over their heads and I have to repeat myself. Although not a genius, I'm autistic and female. Double strength. Wali LLAHi l hamd.
@@wowk7140yeah, 5th grade was the same age I learned a lot of awareness. Maybe 10 is a special age of brain development
imagine getting dropped off as a child and your parents send you this after letting you know
With great powers comes great issues too
Well stated
And very great responsibility
Yo u alive??
That's probably the reason why we become so creative when we are drunk 😂😂😂
if i could control time and I was immortal I could just keep hitting spots on my brain until I find the correct spot
I had a car accident In which I smashed my head into the steering wheel but forgot it had happened for 8 months. I had some personality issues that took a long time to get over (namely having more than 1) but besides that I had an extrodinary spiritual awakening and saw and felt things that have been described across many religions and by many spiritual leaders. My experiences are so extrodinary that describing them to most people will come off as me having gone temporarily insane. But I believe it was more akin to me seeing the true nature of reality. (A side note, I never believed in any sort of higher power, nor was I religous and had never studied any religious text before my experiences)
So this must be what Patrick had in the episode called Patrick Smartpants where he became super smart by hitting his head down a cliff
I have had so many head injurys.
But my gift is different .
Savant syndrome could seemingly also be a symptom/trait in people on the autism spectrum are born with however not everyone on the spectrum will have this trait due to how each individual on the spectrum has their own unique set of traits! :)
wow!! great insight!! maybe you have savant syndrome because of how intelligent you are!! jesus christ, mfs just be stating the obvious lmao. people are different? wow! who knew!
When I did the puzzle I came to a solution using only 3 lines.
I can see this channel blowing up
The solution to the 9 dot problem can be solved easily without going outside the lines unless the original rules state that the line must be with one beginning and one end. Straight line across any side and three perpendicular lines.
In other words, we must lose a function or ability, to gain a new one.
I took a PET scan and my left side of the brain specifically temporal frontal cortex had very little activation. Im pretty smart snd academicamly succesful so i wasnt expecting such an unlit brain.
This has happened to me as well. In 2017 I had a grand mal seizure while standing up and landed on the back of my head spliting the back of my head open. Weeks later after recovering I started noticing how fast I could process information and how calculate things. It goes much deeper than that but yes, this is a real thing.
If the idea is straight lines, you could do this in 3 moves, just a straight but angled line that goes through all 3 rows, 1 line at a time. Doesn't have to go outside the shaded box.
Your videos are absolutely amazing man!
I can remember car plate numbers that I saw in 2005 up to date so easily... Back in primary school my mates used to be astonished how easy I would do that.
great video
not sure if it counts as savant syndrome, since that could just be related to autism in general
but I always had a talent for anything related to math and logic
Nebenbei, wie gehts denn so?
hey,
ich glaube das hängt nur mit Autismus zusammen, denn ich bin auch gut in Mathe und ich bin sehr gut in Biologie und vor allem Chemie. Ich denke das hängt damit zusammen, dass Autisten (oder Menschen mit Autismus) ein gutes Logikverständnis haben und mit Fakten besser umgehen können als mit Dingen bei denen man verschiedene Sachen interpretieren kann.
LG
@@maestro3887 Ja das hab ich mir eigentlich schon gedacht
Hab auserdem vergessen Biologie und Chemie zu erwähnen
(obwohl ich meine Ausbildung darin hab)
nothing to do with savant syndrome, you just have a natural aptitude to learn math and logic, same as everyone who are prone to learn easier in other areas as well. savant syndrome is much more accentuated in regard that they specialize in a area of being almost a genius.
Being gifted and being savant are quite different. A savant doesn't even need to try. A gifted person only start better than the others in his skills and will improve faster than the others.
You sound more like a gifted person than a savant.
"HEY i want to be a genius!"
BONK
"NO REGRETS!!!!"
Such people are really lucky, i mean they would become such great doctors with so much ease.
This man is telling to risk my life to play cricket. I got hit in the head and I was bleeding out and I only changed my personality, now I am from the one that is always frustrated to the most chilled person
Does it work if i jump of the 2nd floor of a building
This could change my way of studying
No wonder my dad used to hit me in the back of my head everytime I did something wrong.
It's like a second hand machine being slapped when it stops working😂😂
Remembrance is good, but what you can do with knowledge is excellent 👌
I wouldn’t force fate to become a savant that risk is just stupid and will be punished by karma. I am happy being in awe of these brainiac super brains and happy to find ultimate prolific ness in a large variety of sports and knowledge. These people are an inspiration and I find it awesome that they are incredibly exceptional.
@Moonlight Gamers You don't know that. And if he wants to beliefs in karma, let him. Mind your own business
The awful grammar I'm seeing right now hurts my eyes.
@@seekerlemm875 Are you talking about me? 🧐
I swear to god, if I ever receive a head injury and wake up knowing dates on a calendar I am going to be so pissed. At least let me wake up knowing how much of a tip I have to leave.
@Madchinaa no he wasn't
I've got AS, but I'm no savant. I do have a generalized high IQ though, with the exception of social interactions. Whether it's painting, singing, learning instruments, physics, math, other logical fields or learning languages.. I do it faster than most others. When it comes to logic based IQ tests I'm over 160. Sometimes I wonder if the brain injury I had at birth allowed me to become stronger in other fields, but suffer socially, or if the injury simply robbed me of the ability to tie it all together and communicate what I learn better.
my head has been hit a few times and I have no special powers but also it did not efffffffffffect me.
When I was kid, I knew someone in the neighborhood hit by a baseball. He was known as a kid with a few missing screws. After he got hit, he missed more screws ended up being schizophrenic.
😭
Which center of investigation was the responsible of the study in the last segment of the video?
Hey! I used the following studies for the last segment:
"Brain stimulation enables the solution of an inherently difficult problem"
"The savant syndrome: an extraordinary condition. A synopsis: past, present, future"
"Savant-like Numerosity Skills Revealed in Normal People by Magnetic Pulses"
The first and the third study were both approved by the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committe (the second is a general review of Savant syndrome). Hope that answers your question!
@@Sciencerely thank you so much! It’s for an high school worksheet :)
As someone who struggles with multiple mental illnesses/disorders including ASD, and whose parents claim that, when I was very young, my mom accidentally hit my head slightly against the rear view mirror in the car (even though that probably doesn't have anything to do with it, but still), and who has been told (and partially agrees) that he has a big musical talent/gift, AND plays piano by ear, AND has perfect pitch...! (a.k.a., literally all of what he stated in the video), I can't help but wonder if I might have Savant Syndrome? But enough about me. Thank you for making this video. It was a very cool video and brought a lot of awareness to people like me who have never even heard of this before!
When I was in 5 grade, My Hindi Teacher beat me like hell in front of whole class (because of some misconception between me and the other student) she hit me with everything she could find, even i got Bruises all over my body. And guess what - After that i TOPPED in HINDI 😂, i was so scared that i lost in the subject and topped the whole class even surpassed the Class Topper 🤣
What the fuck
Holy shit she traumatized you lol
@@nathente5826 yeah, that's why i still remember the incident......
Damn y’all foreigners got it rough I’m lucky I didn’t have to go through what you did. Hope you heal from those traumatic experience’s 🙏
6:53 this is literally thinking outside the box 😂
No matter how much head slaps I got as a kid I am not close to being a genius.
Ikr
I have autism spectrum disorder and have Asperger’s syndrome and have the social skills of a 1st grader.
Just waiting for the day a Savant figures out how to make other Savants intentionally.
would you undergo the procedure?
depends.
I would lmao
I definitely would
Today my birthday I didn’t even expect to watch this video but I enjoy it Thanks For sharing on this video
But didn't most of us former kids in little league baseball (and all ball sports, I suppose) get hit by a ball in the head, at one time or another ?? This has made me to consider perhaps childrens baseball was the secret behind last century's American success upon the World scene, for at the different times we emergered, we were a moral nation playing National ball games, as a pastime; not playing the Nation's streets as gunners with a grudge. ... ... As for Savant syndrom, sure makes sense.
Finally a good competitor for Magnus
Immediately after see the heading, I hit my head with a hammer, nothing is happening yet, I am eager to see what will happen ahead. 😊
Are you still alive?
I’m glad u said “don’t go out n get hit by a baseball” because I was just going to do it 😂😂😂
I surely cannot have SS, but I have Asperger's disease, and I have learned 9 foreign languages, although I only speak 4 of them (English, Sweidhs, german, Japanese; my mother tongue being Hungarian, i.e. helping f**k-all with any other language) fluently/conversationally. I've never had ANY family members being interested in/good at languages; so my mother, who is also a psychiatrist, proposed that this might be because of my mild Aperger's. I've never boasted about this ability of mine, nor do I think I'm more (or less, for that matter) than others, but since you've made this video, I thought I'd share it. Nevertheless, I'm proud of my achievements, since I'm woking (and have worked) hard on learning these languages and I enjoy being creative with them :D I don't just "learn" them by hearing grammar rules once or sg. like that, I actually have to put effort into them, but for me it's just fun to do so.
Interesting. Why no French? That's what i am trying to learn
@@Tribuneoftheplebs French just never piqued my interest, to be honest, I've never found it that interesting and never really liked the sound of it, so I just never learned it. But since I've already learned Spanish, it wouldn't be too hard for me to get into, should I decide to learn it :D
@@domonicsdaniel4497 if you have learnt Spanish im sure you can also learn portuguese. They have a similar vocabulary (because they are literally next to each other and Portugal separated from Spain way back in 1143.)
That sounds like a gift, not like savant syndrome.
@@alicesacco9329 either way, it makes me so happy
Me and the boys hitting each other in the head with metal pipes trying to get the ability to remember the questions before the final.
If only the kids at my school were this fortunate. Unfortunately the most their brains can process is human reproduction and how everything relates to Among Us for some unknown reason.
Damnnn
Good one 😂
Every time your dad would smack your head when you messed up definitely smartens you up!
Somehow I doubt this was caused by the injury.
But you see, what happens when we go through notable experiences to us, is our self-awareness grows and we learn something about ourselves.
Going through temporary or permanent life changes, sensations, experiences we have to overcome, we undergo personal growth through adersity - that can unlock all kinds of un ventured avenues of our brains, and we come to realize we were capable of things we never even thought about - because we had been too focused on one thing or ability, to realize we've grown in other areas.
This is basically the whole premise of flicks like The Karate Kid, at least it used to be.
I don't think getting your brain scrambled, makes you smarter because of the injury - Actually I think that's just a silly take.
The brain is scientifically poorly understood, even with all the things we know today - sciences is guess work, estimations, approximations backed up by fractions of proof gathered through research - but that doesn't mean we know conclusively how it works still, and we probably never will quite understand the way the brain works, the mind and our conscience.
But it's more likely for that boy to have learned he had this innate talent after a bout of trauma, than it is for the trauma to have suddenly awakened this Savant Syndrome.... Maybe, to some extent - it s the same thing.
My brother has high functioning autism and the first year when he joined robotics, he did all of the programming on the robot and made it to worlds. He is very smart and I am insanely proud of him. He plans to go to worlds 4 years
Can you be specific which point of the head the baseball should hit ?
Literally my question
To amarug, many things about what you said happened to me, also in my school a few weeks ago I finished the I-Ready math diagnostic and got pretty much the highest score in my grade which is 4th grade, I was the 1st person to get a score higher than my grade in 4th grade (it happened in 3rd too) and I later found out that I was the first to do it in 20+ YEARS
Me bouta get my nearest bat
The jackass joke hit me with a deep belly laugh
You’re really good at explaining this subject in a entertaining manner. Thank you for your work.
The boy lived "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."