Me a Genius? HAHAHA

Ever heard of something called accidental genius? Savants would be the more technical term. Savants are people with developmental disorders and usually have one or more areas in which they can be considered “genius”. Over half of the savant population have autistic disorder, and the other half having developmental disability, such as brain injury and diseases. In most savants the left hemisphere of the brain is more active than the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the area of the brain that focuses on the arts and functions by rational thinking. In the video, we met savants who can memorize every single book they’ve read, others who are excellent artists, and others who can tell you the date of any given date—all with no prior learning to do what they do. Scientists have concluded that the left hemisphere of savants are strongly more dominant than ones of an average person. once the left side is more active, it does what it does best. Scientists are now constructing the “thinking cap” in which it temporarly distorts the right side of your brain to allow the left side to unravel your hidden talents. Being a savant is such a rare disorder that there are as little as 100 savants in the whole world.