It's articles like this that gives psychology a bad name and turns it into a pseudoscience. All they did was assemble some -anecdotes of people who developed hobbies following some sort of traumatic event but this is not enough to establish either the diagnosis of an actual syndrome or prove the acquisition of new skills. These anecdotes have as much credibility as alien abductions, remote viewing, out of body experiences or other self-reported paranormal experiences. So-called savant syndrome could instead be explained by people who have autism or other disabilities having enough free time to hone in on a certain hobby obsessively, such that to outsiders it seems like they are a savant, not that they possess special mental abilities (except for Kim Peek).
From a young age, Logothetis took an interest in his father’s work, devouring the weekly shipping newsletter and analyzing the market. He soon took the helm, becoming CEO by age 19. He remembers every number, every quantity, every measurement, every price that passed through his ledger. “The East Cape, a ship we delivered in 1993, was 482,000 cubic feet, built in 1975, and leased for $416,000 a month,” Logothetis says. “It doesn’t require effort to retrieve this. It’s just there.”
This could instead be explained by having a IQ , not savant syndrome. People
From a young age, Logothetis took an interest in his father’s work, devouring the weekly shipping newsletter and analyzing the market. He soon took the helm, becoming CEO by age 19. He remembers every number, every quantity, every measurement, every price that passed through his ledger. “The East Cape, a ship we delivered in 1993, was 482,000 cubic feet, built in 1975, and leased for $416,000 a month,” Logothetis says. “It doesn’t require effort to retrieve this. It’s just there.”
This could instead be explained by having a IQ , not savant syndrome. People