![]() At first, I was startled, and worried for myself, but it was so beautiful that I just stood in my slippers and stared.” The next morning, while running the water in the bathroom, he noticed “lines emanating out perpendicularly from the flow. ![]() He was rushed to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a bruised kidney. He fell to the ground as the two men punched and kicked him, stopping only when he handed over his worthless jacket. There, two men attacked him from behind, punching him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. 13, 2002, at a karaoke bar near his home. Party time came to end the night of Friday, Sept. “I thought it would go on that way forever,” Padgett says. He was the “life of the party.” The guy who would funnel a beer before going out and would slip a bottle of Southern Comfort in his jacket pocket to avoid paying $6 for mixed drinks. His life was one adrenaline rush after another: cliff-jumping, sky-diving, bar-hopping. He would race his buddies in a freshly painted red Camaro. With his mullet, leather vest open to a bare chest, and skintight pants, he was more like a high-school student stuck in the 1980s - even though it was 2002, and he was a 31-year-old with a daughter. The only time he dealt in numbers was to track the hours until his shift ended at his father’s furniture store, tally up his bar tab, or count bicep curls at the gym. ![]() “I can barely remember a time,” the 43-year-old says, “when I saw the world the way most everyone else does.”įlash back 12 years: Padgett had dropped out of Tacoma (Wash.) Community College, and was a self-described “goof” with zero interest in academics, let alone math. “I came to understand how pi is calculated by measuring the area of the circle,” he writes in his memoir. The circle, created out of 720 hand-drawn triangles, shows his comprehension of pi. This drawing is an example of sudden savant Jason Padgett’s genius at work, and his unique, mathematical vision of the world. And his world is never boring, never without amazement. He sees the parts that make up the whole. The arc that light makes when it bounces off his car proves the power of pi. Tree leaves outside his window are evidence of Pythagoras’ theorem. He is one of a few people in the world who can draw approximations of fractals, the repeating geometric patterns that are building blocks of everything in the known universe, by hand. Padgett’s world is bursting with mathematical patterns. Suddenly, it’s not just my morning cup of joe, it’s geometry speaking to me.” ![]() The perfect spiral is an important shape to me. “I watch the cream stirred into the brew. When Jason Padgett pours cream into his morning coffee, this is what he sees: I graduated at 76 - 52 years after starting my PhDīoy, 11, does better on Mensa IQ test than Einstein, Hawking Gay porn star turned professor sacked from university sues school - and wins In a sense, Kim was a natural-born split-brain patient.įollowing his life, Kim Peek: The Real Rain Man gives us a great insight into Kim’s life and the family who took care of him.‘Conspiracy Theory,’ Chuck, woke Navy’s recruitment woes and other commentary The main cause of his remarkable abilities seems to have been the lack of connections between his brain’s two hemispheres.Īn MRI scan revealed an absence of the corpus callosum, the anterior commissure and the hippocampal commissure, the parts of the neurological system that transfer information between hemispheres. Though he was strongly introverted, he did not have difficulties with social understanding and communication. Unlike many individuals with savant syndrome, Kim Peek was not afflicted with autistic spectrum disorder. Furthermore, his math skills were exceptional easily doing calendar calculations in his head. He would retain 98 percent of the information he read.īecause he could quickly absorb loads of information and recall it when necessary, his savant syndrome made him a living encyclopedia and a walking GPS. Kim could read both pages of an open book at once, one page with one eye and the other with the other eye.Įven by reading extraordinarily fast like this, Kim’s reading comprehension was exceptional. His special abilities started early, around the age of a year and a half. 19, 2009) possessed one of the most extraordinary memories every recorded in a human being. Kim Peek: The Real Rain Man is a biographical documentary which takes a look at the megasavant Kim Peek.
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