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jbrechtel · 2010-12-26 · Original thread
I'm pretty sure Sherashevsky (studied in the early 1900s) falls into the 'normal' people category. He certainly had problems but would be a very high functioning idiot savant at absolute worst.

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Mnemonist-Little-about-Memory/dp/...

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