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  • Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all the way from Einstein, emollient scientist, just a little bit of the trait, many scientist and engineers, down to somebody that's going to remain nonverbal.

    "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.