Savant

A savant is an autistic person with an amazing ability or abilities that are considered genius. There are only 50 known savants in the world today. One well known savant is Daniel Tammet, Daniel Tammet has an amazing memory and math skills. He has more abilities than disabilities. Daniel Tammet memorized the first 22,000 digits of PI it took him 5 hours to complete this task but he didn't make one mistake. He also went to Iceland and learnt the Icelandic language in only two weeks! The Icelandic language is considered the hardest language to learn because it is so different to the rest of the worlds language.