EXTRAORDINARY GIFTS ARE FOUND IN ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ARE THEN REGARDED DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE OF THEIR ABILITY. That A Person Might Be Considered Gifted Often Comes With The Penalty Of Being Ostracized Or Not Being Able To Fit In With The Average Ordinary Person. Not everyone is gifted in such a way that they suffer from other inabilities, many are though.
Philosophers and scientists are baffled how some people can be more intelligent than other people; especially when it comes to demonstrating extraordinary skills in the arts, music, math, and advanced feats of memory at an early age, as evidenced in child prodigies and savants. Savants demonstrate amazing abilities to do certain tasks that are seemingly superhuman . Savants do things like memorize all the names, addresses and phone numbers in phone books. As children savants are often autistic; if not, they will possess a diseased or injured nervous system. While they possess incredible capacities they will be severely handicapped in a more basic skill such as having a shower. Kim Peek is the probably one of the most famous of all savants. He was the inspiration for the film Rain Man. In the film, Dustin Hoffman played a savant based upon the abilities of Kim Peek. Hoffman met Kim and modeled his character upon him. Kim Peek had the enviable ability of recalling every