A friend send me this link to a video on YouTube. It can shift your view of intelligence altogether. It actually confirms one theory that I had for a long time about autistic children such as this case presented here.
And that is that all the manifestations of severe cases of autism, like the one presented here, are often regarded as mental retardation, when in fact, they can easily represent a complex of compulsions able to mask the intelligence. The problem is that this complex also makes intelligence very hard to stimulate, and the instruments available now to test the intelligence are limited and restrictive. They are mere artificial patterns in which we are trying to squeeze real people. Watch the video !
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