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Not a nitpick, just as a point of interest: The man Raymond Babbitt was based off of in Rain Man wasn't autistic: His name was Kim Peek, and he had FG syndrome,
by msla 9y ago
Not a nitpick, just as a point of interest: The man Raymond Babbitt was based off of in Rain Man wasn't autistic: His name was Kim Peek, and he had FG syndrome, which causes a constellation of physical effects including agenesis of the corpus callosum. He was, in fact, quite an amazing man, and a savant, with an amazing memory and a gift for speed-reading out of each eye separately, one for each page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FG_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FG_syndrome
Anyway, very good article.