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Sun Nov 4, 2012, 06:00 AM

4. Interesting subjects

I recall a tv documentary here in the UK on the subject of Synaesthesia . If you search BBC Horizon Synaesthesia you should find some video links watchable outside for the UK - not all BBC links are so.

Apparently at birth all of our senses are connected : they start to separate some months later. With some there is no complete and final separation.

On the subject of Savants the easiest ones to search for Daniel Tammet, who is a maths genius, and Stephen Wiltshire whose eyes act almost a camera would. I think the complete BBC series may be called Beautiful Minds

Daniel here :

and Stephen here :

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18 replies	Author	Time	Post
Synaesthesia and savant syndrome: are we all superhuman? [View all]	Ichingcarpenter	Nov 2012	OP
Some of us just have crossed wires	Scootaloo	Nov 2012	#1
I can smell a bullshiter through my TV	Ichingcarpenter	Nov 2012	#2
"Discarded feces"?	Scootaloo	Nov 2012	#3
Interesting subjects	dipsydoodle	Nov 2012	#4
I'm a synesthete and have been all my life. I did't know that there was a name for it until about	Ecumenist	Nov 2012	#5
Same here, I think we're everywhere	Warpy	Nov 2012	#11
EXACTLY Warpy....Exactly. NO BIG DEAL! lol! I know. My synesthia is with Music, Taste and smell.	Ecumenist	Nov 2012	#12
Fascinating subject	LuvNewcastle	Nov 2012	#6
its nice to know there are others who do that. It can feel very weird in a world where things aren't	roguevalley	Nov 2012	#9
That's one of the things I love the most about the internet.	LuvNewcastle	Nov 2012	#17
My cousin's son is a savant	Marrah_G	Nov 2012	#7
What is fascinating to me are the stories of people	Warpy	Nov 2012	#13
Here is an interesting ancedote for you	Marrah_G	Nov 2012	#14
I had an attack of synesthesia during a bout of the flu ...	eppur_se_muova	Nov 2012	#8
It can't be that uncommon?	Tien1985	Nov 2012	#10
I can't remember when I've read a thread that I enjoyed as much as this one here	madokie	Nov 2012	#15
Yes, and I had identified the people who have posted in this thread as standouts before	siligut	Nov 2012	#18
RadioLab did a great show on this last year. nt	Javaman	Nov 2012	#16

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