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Mosby

(16,247 posts)
6. He's repeating what he read, and seems to understand it.
Sun May 9, 2021, 06:13 PM
May 2021

Does he know what "hydraulics" are? I think he does.

That's one smart kid.


Karadeniz

(22,441 posts)
7. Or... He was born with knowledge of airplanes... excellent example of that in Ian Stevenson's book,
Sun May 9, 2021, 06:43 PM
May 2021

Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. Toddler in New Orleans. Knew everything about a WWII bomber which he correctly drew. At a WWII museum, he corrected some incorrect information on its display.

jmbar2

(4,858 posts)
8. I worked at a residential facility years ago for developmentally disabled adults
Sun May 9, 2021, 08:14 PM
May 2021

There was one young man there who was severely autistic, but had an encyclopedic knowledge of elevators. He could draw complex diagrams of how they operate and explain it, but could not function in any other independent manner.

No one knew how he could know how elevators work.

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