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    <![CDATA[Der britische Dokumentarfilm <em>Brainman</em> hat ihn bekannt gemacht. Der Engländer Daniel Tammet gehört zu den weltweit rund fünfzig „Prodigious Savants“, so genannten Inselbegabten, die in geistiger Hinsicht geradezu übermenschliche Fähigkeiten entwickeln können. Bei Tammet zeigt sich dies im Umgang mit Zahlen und Sprachen. So ist er beispielsweise in der Lage, stundenlang ununterbrochen die Zahl Pi über 22.500 Stellen hinter dem Komma aufzusagen oder sich innerhalb einer Woche eine Fremdsprache anzueignen. <p> Jede Zahl hat für Tammet eine bestimmte Form, Farbe und Beschaffenheit. „Ich spiele mit Zahlen, ich spaziere durch eine Landschaft, die in ununterbrochener Bewegung ist. Es ist wie ein Kunstwerk, das entsteht und sich ständig verändert, ein numerischer Visualisierungsprozess“, erläutert er wie ein Wesen von einem anderen Stern. Ähnlich rätselhaft sein intuitives Verständnis von Sprache. Fähigkeiten die ebenso faszinierend wie verstörend wirken. Vor allem wenn man sich vor Augen führt, dass Tammet aufgrund seiner Detailfokussierung weder in der Lage ist, ein Auto zu lenken, noch Gesichter auseinanderzuhalten, Mimik zu deuten oder sich in Mitmenschen hineinzuversetzen. Wie alle Savants ist Tammet Autist. Er leidet am Asperger Syndrom. Einer Krankheit, die aus Menschen „Intelligenzautomaten“ ohne soziale Kompetenz macht, wie es ihr Entdecker, der Wiener Kinderarzt Hans Asperger, 1944 ausdrückte.<p> <em>Von einem genialen Autisten lernen</em> lautet der reißerische Untertitel, den der deutsche Verlag Tammets <em>Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind</em> verpasst hat. Wohl wissend, das dies ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit ist. Wer wie Beckmann und Konsorten anlässlich seines Erscheinens Tammet wie eine Jahrmarktattraktion einem sensationslüsternen Publikum vorführt, sollte sich bewusst machen, dass es sich bei den phantastischen Begabungen schlicht um die Symptome eines unheilbaren Leidens handelt. – <em>Franz Klotz</em></p></p>]]>
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