The Man Science Cannot Explain: How Did Someone Born Ill Become a Scientist?

On November 11, 1951, the first child was born in the Pick family. However, it was discovered that the child had multiple brain pathologies. Hydrocephalus, hernia, absence of the brain septum, damage to the cerebellum - everything indicated that in the future the child would have mental and physical disabilities.

As reported by BAKU.WS, the child diagnosed with autism, who couldn't walk until the age of 4, began to show interest in letters and numbers. Kim learned to read by the age of two.

One day, when his father Francis was reading a newspaper, he witnessed his 16-month-old son also reading the newspaper. At 3 years old, the child easily mastered serious books and could perfectly use a dictionary, memorizing each page thanks to his phenomenal memory.

At 14, Kim completed the full course of secondary school, but due to his disability, he was not allowed to receive the certificate that was issued to healthy children.

He memorized all the telephone codes of the world, US postal codes, names of all streets, telephone numbers of millions of people, and the names of the owners of these numbers. The young man, who discovered a special method of reading, read the right page of a book with his right eye and the left page with his left eye.

Kim read one page in 8-10 seconds, and an entire thick book in 10 minutes.

Kim Peek, with his strange gait and behavior, led a lonely life for 33 years and became known only after meeting the famous American writer and Hollywood screenwriter Barry Morrow.

The writer's close acquaintance with Kim and his family led to the creation of the Oscar-winning film "Rain Man." People sought to meet the real hero of "Rain Man," so Peek was invited to various events.

The famous Kim Peek was finally issued a high school diploma, which he was denied 20 years ago. People called him "Kim Puter," "Kim Computer."

After a more accurate medical examination, it was discovered that this phenomenon was not autism, but savant syndrome.

Peek, who never created a family, found meaning in life through reading and read and memorized more than 12,000 books by the end of his life.

The "Rain Man" with phenomenal memory, Kim Peek, died of a heart attack on December 19, 2009, at the age of 58 in his hometown of Salt Lake City.

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