Kim Peek

”’Laurence Kim Peek”’ (November 11, 1951{{spaced ndash}}December 19, 2009) was an American [[savant syndrome|savant]]. Known as a “megasavant”,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Brendan |date=March 14, 2003 |title=”Rain Man” Reigns in Casper |url=http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2003/03/13/news/casper/9f255dee714ad4b37448c4ae702ff00f.txt |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216021712/https://trib.com/news/local/rain-man-reigns-in-casper/article_0c374fd8-9737-51b8-87e8-f896ad30d317.html |archive-date=February 16, 2021 |access-date=July 21, 2009 |work=[[Casper Star-Tribune]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=November 4, 1994 |title=About Kim Peek, Megasavant |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=YK&p_theme=yk&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB291FA0476C393&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023120037/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=YK&p_theme=yk&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB291FA0476C393&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |archive-date=October 23, 2018 |access-date=July 21, 2009 |work=[[York Daily Record]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=November 8, 2004 |title=NASA Studies Mega-Savant Peek’s Brain |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-11-08-nasa-rain-man_x.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124232451/http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-11-08-nasa-rain-man_x.htm |archive-date=January 24, 2011 |access-date=July 21, 2009 |work=[[USA Today]] |location=[[Salt Lake City]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> he had an [[exceptional memory]], but he also experienced social difficulties, possibly resulting from a [[developmental disability]] related to congenital [[Human brain|brain]] abnormalities. He was the inspiration for the character Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 movie ”[[Rain Man]]”. Although Peek was previously diagnosed with [[autism]], he is now thought to have had [[FG syndrome]].<ref name=”nytimesobit”>{{Cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=December 27, 2009 |title=Kim Peek, Inspiration for ‘Rain Man,’ Dies at 58 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27peek.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009203637/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27peek.html |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |access-date=February 25, 2017 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name=”Opitz JM, Smith JF, Santoro L 2008 123–70″>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Opitz JM, Smith JF, Santoro L |date=September 2008 |title=The FG Syndromes (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man 305450): Perspective in 2008 |journal=Adv Pediatr |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=123–70 |doi=10.1016/j.yapd.2008.07.014 |pmid=19048730}}</ref>