“Autism is a complex developmental disability...and is the result of a neurological disorder that effects the normal functioning of the brain, impacting development in the areas of social interaction and communication skills.”-Autism Society of America.
In the book An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks describes his encounter with Stephen Wiltshire, a man with autism. Stephen was considered one of the top child artists in Britain, and supposedly his autism helped him, giving him the ability to remember things exactly the way they are. Whatever Stephen sees he is able to recreate, almost perfectly, in a drawing. He is a genius in mimicry but is unfortunately deficient in symbolism and the meaning of things.
Sacks explains a time when Stephen and himself traveled to Moscow along with Margaret, Stephen’s literary agent. Margaret and Oliver took Stephen to the History Museum then, afterwards, had asked him to draw the museum exactly from memory. But what Stephen drew was......
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