Little drummer boy - an autistic boy drumming on a washing machine quite well.

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4. Autistic kids often display a freakish talent in one area

and some people who have had severe brain injury have found hidden talent when they've recovered. It's as though our brains get in our way in some way and only when part is short circuited or damaged do these talents arise.

This kid is obviously a genius when it comes to rhythm. I hope they've gotten him a real drum set, or plan to.

The weirdest case I ever saw was a bus driver who survived a bleed inside his head and became a mathematical genius. I also knew a stroke patient who started to speak a foreign language that his family swore up and down that nobody else spoke. We could only figure that his grandparents had spoken it around him and he'd picked it up on some level.

The more you work around the brain, the weirder the whole thing gets. It's why neurology was my favorite field until my back couldn't cope with it any more.