Are Autistic Children Telepathic?! | Savant Syndrome
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CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What if your thoughts aren’t just your own? Some scientists believe telepathy might be real… and the proof could lie in savant syndrome. Some people wake up from traumatic brain injuries with brand-new talents—like instantly becoming a world-class musician or solving impossible math problems. Others, born with savant syndrome, display superhuman memory, artistic mastery, and skills they never learned. But how does this happen? This episode the boys dive into the mind-bending world of savants, acquired genius, and the telepathic mysteries of non-speaking autistic individuals. Are some people accidentally accessing an unknown part of human consciousness? Could we all have hidden abilities waiting to be unlocked? And what does this mean for our understanding of intelligence, memory, and reality itself?
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| 0:44.2 | This week, we are diving deep into one of the most mind-boggling mysteries of the human brain, |
| 0:52.5 | Savant syndrome. |
| 0:53.8 | From a young girl who spontaneously started speaking Portuguese, |
| 0:58.8 | Spanish, and reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, |
| 1:02.7 | despite never learning them, |
| 1:04.1 | to people who wake up from a head injury, |
| 1:07.0 | suddenly able to play the piano like a, like Mozart. |
| 1:13.8 | How the hell is this happening are savants tapping into a secret database of knowledge could telepathy or ESP explain these impossible |
| 1:21.5 | abilities and the wildest question do we all have an inner genius waiting to be unlocked? Buckle up because this episode, |
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