He also mentions alternative labels: talented imbecile, parament, talented ament, retarded savant, schizophrenic savant, autisticsavant.
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Hoffman's character in the 1988 film is an autisticsavant with exceptional mental abilities but difficulty relating to other people.
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THE popular 1988 film, Rain Man, stars Dustin Hoffman as an autisticsavant, and Tom Cruise as Hoffman's younger, materialistic and cynical brother.
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He has written several definitive books on the topic, and was a consultant on the film Rain Man, featuring Dustin Hoffman as an autisticsavant.
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Shaking his head for focus, Hamish bent closer and repeated his question louder, interrupting Lacey's intense labor with the autisticsavant and the Jamaican science-maestro.
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My freshman roommate was an idiotsavant who smoked dope all day.
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For our purposes, Herlander Simões is something of an idiotsavant.
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So he surrounded himself with sycophants, and the odd idiotsavant.
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The idiotsavant who made the best bread any of us had ever tasted.
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He's more of idiotsavant than a straight up idiot.
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People with savantsyndrome may have neurodevelopmental disorders, notably autism spectrum disorders, or brain injuries.
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Dustin Hoffman gave a good impression of the savantsyndrome in the 1988 film Rain Man.
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The savantsyndrome is the term now used for a condition originally called the idiot savantsyndrome.
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Jason Padgett has acquired savantsyndrome - he became a mathematical genius after a vicious assault 12 years ago.
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Widener has " savantsyndrome", the general term for people who have high-functioning abilities coexisting with autism spectrum disorders.
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Psychiatrist Darold Treffert who has spent 5 decades studying people with savantsyndrome, and says there may be a buried prodigy in all of us.
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Most people have heard of savantsyndrome, first described in 1887, whereby a person is naturally endowed from early life with remarkable skills in mu(...)
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John Langdon Down (1828-1896) was the first to describe the savantsyndrome (he is also known for his description of Down syndrome).