People with autism can have powerful abilities in memory, recall, or math. They can excel at organization and attention to detail. Some may even have the ever-fascinating savant syndrome.

People with high-functioning autism ... Created with Sketch. Savant syndrome is the name for a rare but extraordinary condition in which someone with a mental impairment, often a form of autism ...

Even for Darold Treffert, an expert in the study of savants who has met around 300 people with conditions such as autism ... The concept of savant syndrome dates back to 1887, when physician J.