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Would you sacrifice your social skills in order to be a savant?

Asked by Hacksawhawk (518points) June 7th, 2011

I’m not asking you wether you’d want some form of autism, I don’t think anyone would want that, but to what extent would you sacrifice part of your social skills if the reward would be an amazing memory?
I was cursing my memory once again while studying, since I kept on losing the information I was supposed to know, so I started wondering what it would be like to have the abilities of say, Kim Peek. He can read any information at an extreme speed and memorize it all by only reading it once!

Mere dry facts isn’t everything either, so let us suppose the memory also comes with a decent degree of ‘critical thinking’ and imagination, ways of handling all the information you can gather so easily.

So would you be willing to be a little bit socially impaired for all that knowledge, or screw that knowledge?

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