The Orlando Serrell case prompts me to question whether memory is potentially Infinite, and that our brain's ability to access to past memories could be infinitesimal with the right set of DNA keys. It seems memory & instinct from previous generations is embedded in genetic coding, with the strangest examples occurring in metamorphosis, with such as the life cycles of Monarch butterflies, dragonflies. The idea of hypnotic regression to past lives tinkers with such concepts, & in this area of study there are confounding unexplainables. Perhaps SW could address this theme ?
My 6 yr old nephew is autistic and has a savant skill called hyperlexia. He can read, write and count without ever being taught, he can also pick up other languages very easily. He taught himself Russian when he was 2 by watching TH-cam videos of a Russian family. He often starts singing strange songs in a range of languages that he learns online, for about 6 months now he's been obsessed with Asian cultures and knows a lot of japanese, korean, mandaran and cantonese. While he never had a brain injury (as far as we know) he does have autism, ADHD and was born with foetal alcohol syndrom to drug addict\ alcoholic parents. He spent the first few years of his life in a crack den (we didn't know he existed and had been no contact with his parents for years at this point.) When he was finally removed from his parents my parents got custody and we learned that his 'nonsensical babbling' was actually him speaking Russian after a Ukrainian neighbour heard him and translated the words to a song. He is a very intelligent little boy but has a lot of issues due to his disabilities such as having no sense of danger and constantly trying to 'escape' so trying to keep him safe is a constant battle!
Aww, the poor thing is probably lonely not being able to chat with others in those different languages. Could you arrange to help him get online and speak with / practice speaking with people in different languages?
I'm sorry to hear his journey started out a little rough, but that is an amazing skill! I wonder if watching all of the online polyglots (xiaomanyc, wouter corduwener, etc) will be of interest to him.
He watches some polyglots online and me and his other aunts have a lot of friends who speak other languages, (mainly Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Mandarin, Russian, Polish and Ukrainian) he also has a few Asian staff members at his school so he does get lots of practice with them. We're trying to get him into a local Gaelic school so he can learn his native language. There's been a huge push in scotland in recent years to prevent the language dying out so there are a few Gaelic schools in our city but they are difficult to get into and don't have much support for kids with additional needs. He watches a lot of Gaelic shows and can speak it a little so I'd love to encourage that.
I went the other way, lost all my math knowledge after a head injury. I was studying advanced maths, physics and chemistry when I had the accident and after it i couldn't for the life of me understand anything of it. So I had to completely change direction, much to my dismay. 30 years later I still think about it, my dream was to study astronomy.
similar situation here, I was a computer science genius (atleast acc to my teachers at my age) and i partly agree too, it just seemed to click easy for me. then I had dengue and post that, I had terrible memory loss. I work in a faang company today so all okay, but that's the issue, it's just okay. too many mental health problems now. I often wonder how life would be different today. it's very very heart breaking
That unfortunately is very common. I am a 2x brain cancer survivor and I used to be able to do complex math problems just by looking that them. Since having brain surgery which causes an acquired brain injury I need a calculator just for simple math. I have a lot of brain tumor friends and they also seem to have the same issue with math.
So you mean to tell me that my brain is perfectly capable of comprehending incredibly complicated maths with little effort... it just doesn't want to. I've never hated my brain more.
Worse; it currently does all the complicated maths internally for things like hand-eye coordination and moving in 3d space, it just never rises above subconscious. Our brains are fantastic computation engines, it's just that most of the power is already in use just perceiving and existing in reality without bumping into things or missing thrown balls.
He’d be so shocked to have seen Jason ripping worms in half this last summer, and pulling fish off hooks for your sisters lol. His OCD has come a longggg way.
If it worked like that, Mike Tyson and his fellow boxers would be running the world or playing in an orchestra, doing mass sculptures of groups of people etc., etc.,.
How did it take so long for someone to realise the sculptor could make a living as a sculptor? He can sculpt incredible lifelike and detailed animals in minutes and he was working as a janitor. I feel like he was surrounded by people who needed their heads knocked together. Animal sculptures are the most marketable sculptures there are as they are inoffensive and everyone loves animals. Even pre-internet he could have just walked into a gallery.
The least surprising thing in this whole video is that an American hospital discharged someone without noticing they had a cracked skull and brain damage...
Eh, american healthcare does love to make sure they know if they can treat you and thus charge you more. Being in the military, though... "Here's two ibuprofen, you'll walk it off tough guy." "Uh, doc... I have a bullet in my intestine." "I said walk it off, _tough guy!"_
Hospital reluctantly did chest xray on wife when she had bad asthma, after sending her home they rang to say she had enlarged heart. Same hospital I believe Kid got sticking plaster on broken leg Man died spinal infection after sheep dipping
My dad had a bad fall at work and was sent home with a cracked skull. The hospital called 7 hours later and told him to come back immediately and not go to sleep. The phone call woke him up.....
Sort of a related story. Had an ambulance call for a self inflicted gun shot wound. Expected the guy to be dead. He wasn't though. He had a long history of severe depression and was kind of a ne'er do well with a drug habit and a bad relationship. He decided he was tired of it one day and decided to end his life. He had placed the gun into his mouth and shot mostly upwards. The bullet exited the top of his skull and when we arrived there were little pieces of brain around the exit in his hair. He was awake but not able to really make sense of what happened as he wasn't sure what was going on and how he had been shot. Doctors at the hospital did what little they could do to help and he was in the hospital for a couple of weeks before being released with his life completely changed for the better. He was no longer depressed, had no desire for drugs and actually worked to repair the relationship he was in. When he was able he got a job, went back to school and became a successful person. The doctors said the bullet had destroyed that part of his brain which was causing problems and left him with minimal neurological issues, he couldn't remember the couple of weeks before he shot himself and had no idea why he would want to end his own life and he was prone to sinus infections as the gunshot had done significant damage due to the massive pressure of the expanding gases. Other than that he was just a regular guy afterwards. I would make no recommendation on trying to cure yourself in this fashion but it worked for him.
Listen, I already had a genius level IQ and then I surgery for a cancerous brain tumor in my right frontal lobe leaving me with an acquired brain injury. I had to have neuropsych testing because the damage in my right frontal lobe gave me frontal lobe syndrome. My IQ actually dropped about 30 points and I was just bawling. My neuropsychiatrist told me to just give it time and my brain wouldn’t even begin to heal until a year after surgery. I am tested every year and by the third my IQ had settled into its new normal which is 5 points lower than before. I never complain or cry about it anymore. That happened in 2005 and they gave me 2 years. Then in 2012 I had a recurrence but we didn’t do surgery again due to frontal lobe damage I had. I did 19 months of 4 different chemos instead and I finished in December of 2013. I’ve been tumor free since.
Imagine the other Savants getting the ability to make beautiful music out of thin air or do incredibly complex mathematics, and all you get is yesterday's weather
At 12:53 The sculptor.... I remember a television series about people who suffered injuries. I think the name of it was "Impact".... Anyway, one episode detailed a man that was a mechanic on airplanes. One day he was doing some work on an airplane and had an accident, the propeller swung around and hit him in the head sending pieces of his skull into his brain. He can no longer work as a mechanic, he is also not able to be a pilot like he was before the accident. He also has a hard time speaking. He can however sculpt....he add sold some of his works for a great amount of money. I think he also did woodcarving if I remember correctly....
I don’t know if anybody has heard of this man called Liam Gallagher??? He got attacked and hit over the head with a hammer, after this he started to sing and completely out of character joined his brother Noel’s band, they renamed it and the band became known as Oasis…..
I've asked a few times across his channels. I'm just getting into audio production and the most important lesson I've learned is make sure every part sounds good on most speakers/headphones.
I got bonked in the temple with a sizable steel bearing as a kid. As far as I can tell the only consequence was hearing loss on the bonked side. Did Alonzo by any chance sculpt with mashed potatos?
"I lost my math visions, but gained the ability to go outside, talk to people, make friends, enjoy life thoroughly, and not have OCD? I'm... normal!" Honestly, for most of them it would probably be a miracle, especially since many of them are severely autistic. But savants really are a gift to the world as they are, I wish they were given more attention.
Some children can grow out of their savant skills. My 6yr old nephew has a savant skill called hyperlexia, basically he can read, write, count and learn lanuages without needing to be taught how, he just knows how to do it instinctively. (he teaches himself languages by watcing foreign movies\ online videos with subtitles) A lot of kids with this skill will outgrow it by the time they're around 5\6 and will often need to completely relearn how to do things that used to just come so easily to them.
I received a TBI on the vision part of my brain. Couldn't focus my eyes for almost two weeks. I'm glad to see that these people got neat abilities, I also hope they're genuinely happy.
These stories always make me hyped to go out and get some brain damage! Minicoma, chronic pains, chronic dizziness, memory loss, hearing and vision loss, and slurred speech, here I come!
I want a point out that in the last story, his drug addiction could have been caused by his brain injury. People with ADHD often have up to 60% of their frontal lobe “asleep” without medication, according to an article I read… or a seminar I watched. It’s possible that his brain injury caused him to have some sort of issue his brain is driving him to “self medicate”. I think it would be interesting to see what a study on his brain would show. I wish we had more research on these types of things and less on bizarre unhelpful things.
My neighbor has ADHD and told me he was a gangmember as a teen. Cocaine was very accessible to him so he basically self medicated with it, he told me it felt like his brain would slow down and he could actually feel a sense of calm when using! Today he only uses weed and he is even trying to put that down too now. But yea, people with especially ADHD have a much higher risk of drug use because they feel like self medicating to calm the mind, whereas other people will feel the rush effect. I have autism, and i was given antipsychotic medicine for a time, as i was misdiagnosed, but the new medicine they gave that "worked so well and had almoat no side effects" gave me a TON of side effects! Its main thing was it wouldnt make you tired - i almost couldn't move or speak on it it felt horrible.. They tried an old medicine most people got tired from and it had a bunch of side effects - i had nothing but one side effect, that unfortunate ment i had to get off it quick, but it at least didnt tire me like all the other medicines did.. This is my best examples but yea a lot of medicine have the opposite effect on me and my neighbor and others i know that are neuro diverse 👍 Self medication is very common
I want point out what a remarkably refreshing and enlightened your comment is. You successfully contributed to normalizing the conversation of self medication and drug use, without making excuses for addiction. I majored in psychology with a focus on addiction studies. I'm going to make a bold assumption here and thank you for being a good person with compassion.
10:32 I’m a little confused. If his memory was that stellar, you’d think he’d remember everything he’s ever read, making school a breeze for him. I’m just wondering what exactly the parameters of his memory are.
It's like a specific type of photographic memory he remembers dates times and activities it's sounds like and other things would be remembered in a more normal amount although focus outside of his specific gift can usually be an problem for ppl suffering with these kinda very complex issues Hope that helps a bit
Wait, aren't we talking about this awesome surf skateboard any more? Just one sentence? That is a project in itself deserving attention! Maybe a topic for a video, futuristic devices of individual transportation (except boring old cars, of course).
Strange ive recently been experiencing my symptoms from my tbi, with 2 skull fractures and a sever brain hemmorage from a sucker punch in august. Just weird this was posted.
I used t be able to, with in 3 or 4 seconds of being asked, state any Inch Decimal Equivalent for any common fraction between 1/32 and 1 inch by 32nds to 5 decimal places, but it was just because I used them alot, now I only know them by 16ths
I had a stroke a couple of months ago, and since had *no* reactions to what was developing into a severe gastric problem that caused my throat to constrict. Severe enough to carry an Epi-pen. Again, after the stroke, all this disappeared. All my doctors are puzzled about this, but I'll take it. On the other hand, I also have severe ADHD, and now I can't take any stimulant medications. This is fast becoming a personal disaster, and I hate it, but here we are.
I said I was going to beat my head against a wall to forget everything I saw in the last Sideprojects video... now I'm thinking that might not have been a bad idea. Scratch that, would still have been a bad idea.
Hearing Simon say Sioux Falls, South Dakota made me do a double take lol Congratulations, you can say our town name better than Google maps 🤣 but seriously, kudos on not slaughtering the pronunciation like most people do
I’ve seen the black and white squares. Everyone receives them into their temples and other areas of their brain but don’t see them. They are thoughts being channeled.
That was very 1970s. Major head injury and he didnt tell anyone, cuz unless your arm is hanging on by a thread and you are bleeding out, parents didnt want to hear about it. Get up, shake it off, get a drink from the hose😁.
Hey man id love to see an analysis of yours about some of the concepts from the 3 Body Problem. The books are incredible and the show was pretty good tbh given a very difficult set of events to visually interpret. Particularly the alien's 11 dimensional sentient computer: The Sophon. It's quantum entangled. I understand that much LOL - so they can control it from 4 lightyears away while their fleet travels for 400 years to earth they use it to disrupt particle accelerators and cause mass hallucinations and stuff. It's printed on the surface of proton. Is that possible?
The fact that brain damaged people seem to acquire these special abilities, makes me wonder if undamaged brains also have these capacities that are just not normally developed; could they be developed in anybody? One sees videos like “limitless”, or “Lucy” ankd got to wonder what other talents are masked by normal behaviours or expectations
11:46 Why wasn’t he working independently as a sculpture? Even if he can only sculpt what he’s seen, you’d think there’d be a market for that. Edit: Ok, I guess he did become an artist. I thought he’d just remained a custodian
Know I have found my self more fascinated by nature and very good at things that were almost impossible to me before I got a concussion while ice skating
I don't remember learning math. Well, arithmetic. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. I just remember knowing it. I knew my multiplication tables the day i walked into kindergarten. I have a SUPER vague fuzzy memory of learning long division, but i don't remember how old i was. It turned out my cousin and parents started trying to teach me math literally as a baby. And it took. As an adult i became a bartender, and it used to throw folks for a loop when they'd come up and order half a dozen drinks and i would just instantly give them an exact total (no sales tax to compute in that state, but even that wouldn't have mattered). So i may not have it quite as vividly as some savants do, but i totally can identify with the idea of "seeing math". I've also had four concussions. All fairly minor, but they didn't seem to affect it in any way. But now I'm 40 and still math feels like a part of me.
Just shows what our brain is capable of and what our brain deliberately locks away to make us better at functioning in the natural mission for survival. No doubt as neurological science improves and the technology to unlock brain potential is developed these abilities will be accessible without severe head injuries or congenital defects.
Imagine when science allows for the entirety of the population to be born with the benefits of savant syndrome without the disabilities. We already see exponential growth in technology just because of the nature of innovation, but imagine a Renaissance level event on top of that.
Although interesting , you failed to mention “Daniel Tammet”’, there is an excellent documentary on TH-cam called, The man with the incredible brain. To anyone who reads this comment , I would highly recommend it.
What if ancient humans also had this? Many ancient skulls show trauma. What if these individuals started painting cave walls or planting seeds. Is the advent of technology due to head injuries from thousands of years ago?
Do i think nique did her sneak sneak for the views YES. King called momma ol girl (no dr) didn't speak to her from what SHE said. Lastly thats King child whether or not the boy shows he should still have his own space and items at his father's house. My thoughts 🤷🏿♀️
The plurality of genius, is genius. "Geniuses" is a derogatory issuance of the term. It's amazing that it takes a tism to get through to people. If I am successful this time, that is... 🙄😒
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The Orlando Serrell case prompts me to question whether memory is potentially Infinite, and that our brain's ability to access to past memories could be infinitesimal with the right set of DNA keys. It seems memory & instinct from previous generations is embedded in genetic coding, with the strangest examples occurring in metamorphosis, with such as the life cycles of Monarch butterflies, dragonflies.
The idea of hypnotic regression to past lives tinkers with such concepts, & in this area of study there are confounding unexplainables. Perhaps SW could address this theme ?
My 6 yr old nephew is autistic and has a savant skill called hyperlexia. He can read, write and count without ever being taught, he can also pick up other languages very easily. He taught himself Russian when he was 2 by watching TH-cam videos of a Russian family. He often starts singing strange songs in a range of languages that he learns online, for about 6 months now he's been obsessed with Asian cultures and knows a lot of japanese, korean, mandaran and cantonese.
While he never had a brain injury (as far as we know) he does have autism, ADHD and was born with foetal alcohol syndrom to drug addict\ alcoholic parents. He spent the first few years of his life in a crack den (we didn't know he existed and had been no contact with his parents for years at this point.) When he was finally removed from his parents my parents got custody and we learned that his 'nonsensical babbling' was actually him speaking Russian after a Ukrainian neighbour heard him and translated the words to a song.
He is a very intelligent little boy but has a lot of issues due to his disabilities such as having no sense of danger and constantly trying to 'escape' so trying to keep him safe is a constant battle!
Aww, the poor thing is probably lonely not being able to chat with others in those different languages. Could you arrange to help him get online and speak with / practice speaking with people in different languages?
This is unbelievably cool, and what must be horribly frustrating. I'll admit though, I'm pretty jealous about his language ability.
That is a hell of a life story for someone so young.
I'm sorry to hear his journey started out a little rough, but that is an amazing skill! I wonder if watching all of the online polyglots (xiaomanyc, wouter corduwener, etc) will be of interest to him.
He watches some polyglots online and me and his other aunts have a lot of friends who speak other languages, (mainly Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Mandarin, Russian, Polish and Ukrainian) he also has a few Asian staff members at his school so he does get lots of practice with them.
We're trying to get him into a local Gaelic school so he can learn his native language. There's been a huge push in scotland in recent years to prevent the language dying out so there are a few Gaelic schools in our city but they are difficult to get into and don't have much support for kids with additional needs. He watches a lot of Gaelic shows and can speak it a little so I'd love to encourage that.
I went the other way, lost all my math knowledge after a head injury. I was studying advanced maths, physics and chemistry when I had the accident and after it i couldn't for the life of me understand anything of it. So I had to completely change direction, much to my dismay. 30 years later I still think about it, my dream was to study astronomy.
How traumatic!
That is desperately sad. What did you do instead?
similar situation here, I was a computer science genius (atleast acc to my teachers at my age) and i partly agree too, it just seemed to click easy for me. then I had dengue and post that, I had terrible memory loss. I work in a faang company today so all okay, but that's the issue, it's just okay. too many mental health problems now. I often wonder how life would be different today. it's very very heart breaking
That unfortunately is very common. I am a 2x brain cancer survivor and I used to be able to do complex math problems just by looking that them. Since having brain surgery which causes an acquired brain injury I need a calculator just for simple math. I have a lot of brain tumor friends and they also seem to have the same issue with math.
Ha. Me too. I forgot what I didn't know. (3 weeks in a coma)
So you mean to tell me that my brain is perfectly capable of comprehending incredibly complicated maths with little effort... it just doesn't want to. I've never hated my brain more.
Worse; it currently does all the complicated maths internally for things like hand-eye coordination and moving in 3d space, it just never rises above subconscious.
Our brains are fantastic computation engines, it's just that most of the power is already in use just perceiving and existing in reality without bumping into things or missing thrown balls.
@@korstmahler Proprioception is the phenomenon you speak of
I want a refund. My brain injury didn't turn me into a genius.
We can smell our own, and I'm not talking about our underwear
Or have you simply not found your hidden talent? You might have to lick every thing on the planet to find out.
Mine didn't either. Only thing I got was headaches.
I have a TBI all I got were seizures and hopefully a nice settlement
Same. I skied into a tree. Got nothing.
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You are one of my favorite TH-camrs and Jason Padgett is my dad!! I am absolutely ECSTATIC that he made one of your videos!
He’d be so shocked to have seen Jason ripping worms in half this last summer, and pulling fish off hooks for your sisters lol. His OCD has come a longggg way.
I've often been called an idiot savant. No, wait, it's an idiot I get called.
The word idiot is thrown around so casually.
You must be a one in a million savant in your particular brand of idiocy!
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
at last, i'm not alone.
I just get called dumb
:D
I've had my bell rung so many times, the genius probably got knocked in and out several times. Maybe I'll get lucky the next time!
You are just getting brain damage at this point
Me too.
If it worked like that, Mike Tyson and his fellow boxers would be running the world or playing in an orchestra, doing mass sculptures of groups of people etc., etc.,.
How did it take so long for someone to realise the sculptor could make a living as a sculptor? He can sculpt incredible lifelike and detailed animals in minutes and he was working as a janitor. I feel like he was surrounded by people who needed their heads knocked together. Animal sculptures are the most marketable sculptures there are as they are inoffensive and everyone loves animals. Even pre-internet he could have just walked into a gallery.
The least surprising thing in this whole video is that an American hospital discharged someone without noticing they had a cracked skull and brain damage...
I was like WHAT?! Wasn’t it a 400lb weight that hit him? How do they not thoroughly check his fucking head for every injury possible!!😳🙄😳🙄😳🙄😳
Eh, american healthcare does love to make sure they know if they can treat you and thus charge you more.
Being in the military, though... "Here's two ibuprofen, you'll walk it off tough guy." "Uh, doc... I have a bullet in my intestine." "I said walk it off, _tough guy!"_
Hospital reluctantly did chest xray on wife when she had bad asthma, after sending her home they rang to say she had enlarged heart.
Same hospital I believe
Kid got sticking plaster on broken leg
Man died spinal infection after sheep dipping
My dad had a bad fall at work and was sent home with a cracked skull. The hospital called 7 hours later and told him to come back immediately and not go to sleep. The phone call woke him up.....
@@brandonford8092 hope he is on the mend and fighting fit
Sort of a related story. Had an ambulance call for a self inflicted gun shot wound. Expected the guy to be dead. He wasn't though. He had a long history of severe depression and was kind of a ne'er do well with a drug habit and a bad relationship. He decided he was tired of it one day and decided to end his life. He had placed the gun into his mouth and shot mostly upwards. The bullet exited the top of his skull and when we arrived there were little pieces of brain around the exit in his hair. He was awake but not able to really make sense of what happened as he wasn't sure what was going on and how he had been shot.
Doctors at the hospital did what little they could do to help and he was in the hospital for a couple of weeks before being released with his life completely changed for the better. He was no longer depressed, had no desire for drugs and actually worked to repair the relationship he was in. When he was able he got a job, went back to school and became a successful person. The doctors said the bullet had destroyed that part of his brain which was causing problems and left him with minimal neurological issues, he couldn't remember the couple of weeks before he shot himself and had no idea why he would want to end his own life and he was prone to sinus infections as the gunshot had done significant damage due to the massive pressure of the expanding gases. Other than that he was just a regular guy afterwards. I would make no recommendation on trying to cure yourself in this fashion but it worked for him.
Amazing!
Listen, I already had a genius level IQ and then I surgery for a cancerous brain tumor in my right frontal lobe leaving me with an acquired brain injury. I had to have neuropsych testing because the damage in my right frontal lobe gave me frontal lobe syndrome. My IQ actually dropped about 30 points and I was just bawling. My neuropsychiatrist told me to just give it time and my brain wouldn’t even begin to heal until a year after surgery. I am tested every year and by the third my IQ had settled into its new normal which is 5 points lower than before. I never complain or cry about it anymore. That happened in 2005 and they gave me 2 years. Then in 2012 I had a recurrence but we didn’t do surgery again due to frontal lobe damage I had. I did 19 months of 4 different chemos instead and I finished in December of 2013. I’ve been tumor free since.
I hope you're OK now. Best wishes.
Imagine the other Savants getting the ability to make beautiful music out of thin air or do incredibly complex mathematics, and all you get is yesterday's weather
Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of professional basketball before an ankle injury diverted him into science.
At 12:53
The sculptor....
I remember a television series about people who suffered injuries. I think the name of it was "Impact"....
Anyway, one episode detailed a man that was a mechanic on airplanes. One day he was doing some work on an airplane and had an accident, the propeller swung around and hit him in the head sending pieces of his skull into his brain. He can no longer work as a mechanic, he is also not able to be a pilot like he was before the accident. He also has a hard time speaking. He can however sculpt....he add sold some of his works for a great amount of money. I think he also did woodcarving if I remember correctly....
I kinda feel like the music in this video was louder than necessary. Did anyone else get those vibes?
It was real bad this one.
I don’t know if anybody has heard of this man called Liam Gallagher??? He got attacked and hit over the head with a hammer, after this he started to sing and completely out of character joined his brother Noel’s band, they renamed it and the band became known as Oasis…..
..with an IQ of 40, crippling cocaine addiction, and trying to describe Spacetime with quantum black holes.
I kid, I kid
😅 Liam is not a genius, he's a scumbag.
He recovered pretty well then, I guess that's why he doesn't look back in anger
@@JK_Clark to be fair he started his recovery by slowly walking down the hall……
Why isnt the audio normalised? Quiet simon vs loud outro and text slides
I've asked a few times across his channels. I'm just getting into audio production and the most important lesson I've learned is make sure every part sounds good on most speakers/headphones.
It was particularly brutal on this one. I guess they just don't care about our ears.
I've always thought that the band Tool is a meeting of 4 musical savants.
This was great! Id love a part 2!!
Me, always being called arse-brained by my friends, sitting in A&E for severe rectal bleeding : MY TIME HAS COME
I got bonked in the temple with a sizable steel bearing as a kid. As far as I can tell the only consequence was hearing loss on the bonked side.
Did Alonzo by any chance sculpt with mashed potatos?
Would be interesting if a born savant got an injury and lost the savant-ness
"I lost my math visions, but gained the ability to go outside, talk to people, make friends, enjoy life thoroughly, and not have OCD? I'm... normal!"
Honestly, for most of them it would probably be a miracle, especially since many of them are severely autistic. But savants really are a gift to the world as they are, I wish they were given more attention.
Some children can grow out of their savant skills. My 6yr old nephew has a savant skill called hyperlexia, basically he can read, write, count and learn lanuages without needing to be taught how, he just knows how to do it instinctively. (he teaches himself languages by watcing foreign movies\ online videos with subtitles)
A lot of kids with this skill will outgrow it by the time they're around 5\6 and will often need to completely relearn how to do things that used to just come so easily to them.
And yet when I twisted my ankle really bad playing volleyball, I didn't become an olympic runner.
Some people have all the luck.
I received a TBI on the vision part of my brain. Couldn't focus my eyes for almost two weeks. I'm glad to see that these people got neat abilities, I also hope they're genuinely happy.
These stories always make me hyped to go out and get some brain damage!
Minicoma, chronic pains, chronic dizziness, memory loss, hearing and vision loss, and slurred speech, here I come!
I want a point out that in the last story, his drug addiction could have been caused by his brain injury. People with ADHD often have up to 60% of their frontal lobe “asleep” without medication, according to an article I read… or a seminar I watched. It’s possible that his brain injury caused him to have some sort of issue his brain is driving him to “self medicate”. I think it would be interesting to see what a study on his brain would show. I wish we had more research on these types of things and less on bizarre unhelpful things.
My neighbor has ADHD and told me he was a gangmember as a teen.
Cocaine was very accessible to him so he basically self medicated with it, he told me it felt like his brain would slow down and he could actually feel a sense of calm when using!
Today he only uses weed and he is even trying to put that down too now.
But yea, people with especially ADHD have a much higher risk of drug use because they feel like self medicating to calm the mind, whereas other people will feel the rush effect.
I have autism, and i was given antipsychotic medicine for a time, as i was misdiagnosed, but the new medicine they gave that "worked so well and had almoat no side effects" gave me a TON of side effects! Its main thing was it wouldnt make you tired - i almost couldn't move or speak on it it felt horrible..
They tried an old medicine most people got tired from and it had a bunch of side effects - i had nothing but one side effect, that unfortunate ment i had to get off it quick, but it at least didnt tire me like all the other medicines did..
This is my best examples but yea a lot of medicine have the opposite effect on me and my neighbor and others i know that are neuro diverse 👍
Self medication is very common
I want point out what a remarkably refreshing and enlightened your comment is. You successfully contributed to normalizing the conversation of self medication and drug use, without making excuses for addiction. I majored in psychology with a focus on addiction studies. I'm going to make a bold assumption here and thank you for being a good person with compassion.
After my brain haemorrhage, I woke up in this twilight zone
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@@AP-nj1mr the best bit was when I developed a taste for crayons 🖍 😋 red ones are bestest 😂
Its great that these folks manage to live a full life and fulfill some outstanding accomplishments 🤗🤗 ...
Love this, thank you Simon
ty simon i just run into wal realy hard and now i feel supr smart
Shout out from Edinburgh Dude 🤘
Love how your beginning to show a bit of dark humor in ur content lately 😂
Keep the videos comin 🤘😝🤘
Brain Blaze creeping into the other channels
10:32 I’m a little confused. If his memory was that stellar, you’d think he’d remember everything he’s ever read, making school a breeze for him. I’m just wondering what exactly the parameters of his memory are.
It's like a specific type of photographic memory he remembers dates times and activities it's sounds like and other things would be remembered in a more normal amount although focus outside of his specific gift can usually be an problem for ppl suffering with these kinda very complex issues
Hope that helps a bit
Damnit, I’ve been concussed 5 times in my life, where’s my acquired savant syndrome?
What are you doing with your life that you got 5 concussions? lol
@@chuckmaddox6725 knocked down by a car, playing ice hockey, bar fight, falling down stairs, car accident.
In other words you have lived...unlike me
@@kirdot2011 you could look at that way. I look at it as I survived.
@@QVUTDN trying to get acquired savant syndrome isn’t worth the hospital bill.
Suddenly, a tragic injury happens and their lives completely changed in a pleasant more beneficial direction. Fascinating stories thats for sure.
Nice episode, really interesting. Thanks Kevin
Wait, aren't we talking about this awesome surf skateboard any more? Just one sentence? That is a project in itself deserving attention!
Maybe a topic for a video, futuristic devices of individual transportation (except boring old cars, of course).
My brother got a big brain tumour, it just made him act crazy for three years, then die.
Strange ive recently been experiencing my symptoms from my tbi, with 2 skull fractures and a sever brain hemmorage from a sucker punch in august. Just weird this was posted.
I don't drink anymore now. So that's good I guess
13:45
The Defenition of Ironic: "Being hit on the head by Bands equipment aptly named "Orchestral Maneuvers in the dark" 😄😂
I used t be able to, with in 3 or 4 seconds of being asked, state any Inch Decimal Equivalent for any common fraction between 1/32 and 1 inch by 32nds to 5 decimal places, but it was just because I used them alot, now I only know them by 16ths
A friend of mine was an athlete and then had a brain injury and immediately became an extremely talented artist. It definitely happens!
I hit my head extremely hard, and woke up still knowing what a woman is. No experience with them, but still
Not me diving head first off my balcony so I can become a best selling genius author!
I had a stroke a couple of months ago, and since had *no* reactions to what was developing into a severe gastric problem that caused my throat to constrict. Severe enough to carry an Epi-pen. Again, after the stroke, all this disappeared. All my doctors are puzzled about this, but I'll take it.
On the other hand, I also have severe ADHD, and now I can't take any stimulant medications. This is fast becoming a personal disaster, and I hate it, but here we are.
I said I was going to beat my head against a wall to forget everything I saw in the last Sideprojects video... now I'm thinking that might not have been a bad idea.
Scratch that, would still have been a bad idea.
Hearing Simon say Sioux Falls, South Dakota made me do a double take lol Congratulations, you can say our town name better than Google maps 🤣 but seriously, kudos on not slaughtering the pronunciation like most people do
I lived in Sioux Falls from 1997-2001 while I attended Augustana, & I had the same reaction!
I’ve seen the black and white squares. Everyone receives them into their temples and other areas of their brain but don’t see them. They are thoughts being channeled.
Wow I loved so great these people can come back from such horrible stuff happening to them!!,anyway you should do more videos about geniuses.
I believe i might be a savant, my parents always told me i was a product of an accident.
Calendrical savant seems so.... specific
That was very 1970s. Major head injury and he didnt tell anyone, cuz unless your arm is hanging on by a thread and you are bleeding out, parents didnt want to hear about it. Get up, shake it off, get a drink from the hose😁.
Hey man id love to see an analysis of yours about some of the concepts from the 3 Body Problem. The books are incredible and the show was pretty good tbh given a very difficult set of events to visually interpret.
Particularly the alien's 11 dimensional sentient computer: The Sophon. It's quantum entangled. I understand that much LOL - so they can control it from 4 lightyears away while their fleet travels for 400 years to earth they use it to disrupt particle accelerators and cause mass hallucinations and stuff. It's printed on the surface of proton. Is that possible?
How many times should I hit myself in the head to get genius level? Or should I experiment on vr NPCs?
All the concussions ive caught didnt give me any ability accept to accurately tell when im concussed...
where i buy a roller surf?
The fact that brain damaged people seem to acquire these special abilities, makes me wonder if undamaged brains also have these capacities that are just not normally developed; could they be developed in anybody? One sees videos like “limitless”, or “Lucy” ankd got to wonder what other talents are masked by normal behaviours or expectations
11:46 Why wasn’t he working independently as a sculpture?
Even if he can only sculpt what he’s seen, you’d think there’d be a market for that.
Edit:
Ok, I guess he did become an artist. I thought he’d just remained a custodian
Know I have found my self more fascinated by nature and very good at things that were almost impossible to me before I got a concussion while ice skating
Wow, view number 8. I must have an unhealthy obsession with my bald boi
This kind of accident must have really seemed like magic back in the day.
Are there no cases of acquired savant syndrome outside the US??
I got my thumb stuck in the electric window of my dads Renault Fuego. Nothing happened to my genius. Im gutted.
Wow. Just wow.
"I know what I must do but I don't know if I have the strength to do it."
We got to see some of the sculptures by we needed examples of the other talents.
"but" we needed...
My brain injury just gave me recurrent migraines for the rest of my life, short term memory problems, and gaps in long term memory 🥴
A thrilled watching video
you missed the guy who woke up from coma speaking japanese and the other fella who.... ah geez my singular brain cell stopped working
It’s always Odd hearing Simon speak about TCC and Tacoma lmao
Brb, hammer time 😎🔨
I don't remember learning math. Well, arithmetic. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. I just remember knowing it. I knew my multiplication tables the day i walked into kindergarten. I have a SUPER vague fuzzy memory of learning long division, but i don't remember how old i was. It turned out my cousin and parents started trying to teach me math literally as a baby. And it took. As an adult i became a bartender, and it used to throw folks for a loop when they'd come up and order half a dozen drinks and i would just instantly give them an exact total (no sales tax to compute in that state, but even that wouldn't have mattered). So i may not have it quite as vividly as some savants do, but i totally can identify with the idea of "seeing math". I've also had four concussions. All fairly minor, but they didn't seem to affect it in any way. But now I'm 40 and still math feels like a part of me.
Remove the word 'literally' . It literally does nothing.
@@zufalllx I agree. I will not, however, change it.
Why are the title and end credits so loud??!?! Simon's voice is lovely then I get jump scared.
I got hit in the eye socket with a cricket ball and got diddly squat!!
I feel normal bordering genius. Don't argue with idiots aka 98.65% of people.
Ouch! I can actually hear the noise that must have made!! Cricket balls are like fucking concrete!!!!
I couldn't help notice that Simon's camera was focused on the background instead of his face for the whole video. It's really annoying.
Now I can’t unsee that.
@@oreotookie you're welcome.
Just shows what our brain is capable of and what our brain deliberately locks away to make us better at functioning in the natural mission for survival. No doubt as neurological science improves and the technology to unlock brain potential is developed these abilities will be accessible without severe head injuries or congenital defects.
Imagine when science allows for the entirety of the population to be born with the benefits of savant syndrome without the disabilities. We already see exponential growth in technology just because of the nature of innovation, but imagine a Renaissance level event on top of that.
I thought this only happened in comic books. Guess there is some truth to it, albeit with severe side effects in most cases.
My brother was functionally impaired as a kid. Gotta bunch of concussions and now he's normal 🤔
David Helfgott
wait what?!?> was that rotosurf!!!
You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.
I was born in the 70s. In the 70,80, early 90s we were fine. Now humanity has grown to heartlessness.
Although interesting , you failed to mention “Daniel Tammet”’, there is an excellent documentary on TH-cam called, The man with the incredible brain.
To anyone who reads this comment , I would highly recommend it.
What if ancient humans also had this? Many ancient skulls show trauma. What if these individuals started painting cave walls or planting seeds. Is the advent of technology due to head injuries from thousands of years ago?
Without background music the video would be better.
MUCH better
Tapping into our shared consciousness
And we wonder why they did trepanning? Duh, they were hoping to create a new genius to help them.
1:09 I think you might have meant to say the SIX people who are now geniuses. I must have just missed your email...
Weird how evolution gave our brains built-in abilities that our ancestors didn't have any particular use for.
I think I just lost my last brain cell trying this technic that doctors supposedly hate...
After my brain injury my memory has improved. It’s kinda weird
Do i think nique did her sneak sneak for the views YES. King called momma ol girl (no dr) didn't speak to her from what SHE said. Lastly thats King child whether or not the boy shows he should still have his own space and items at his father's house. My thoughts 🤷🏿♀️
Jason was sent home with internal bleeding?
A.S.S.? Seriously? NOT developed by either a genius or a savant.
It was the Injection!
The plurality of genius, is genius. "Geniuses" is a derogatory issuance of the term.
It's amazing that it takes a tism to get through to people.
If I am successful this time, that is... 🙄😒
I ripped some mush, and my ability to learn took a big jump.
IT'S CALLED A TAP
These are amazing, but after working in neuro icu for 30 years, they are extremely rare!
Genius borders insanity .