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Rain man question

Sangre · 2006-01-12 16:21:07

Did the character Dustin Hoffman played have palsy aswell? Google didn't help, just settling an ole bet.

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12-01-2006 5:21pm

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Sangre

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Did the character Dustin Hoffman played have palsy aswell?
Google didn't help, just settling an ole bet.

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#2 12-01-2006 5:28pm
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No, i'm pretty sure that he was just autistic.
I think i'd have to watch it again to tell you for definite, theres a scene in it where the Doctor tells "Charlie" whats wrong with his brother. Cant' remember what he said.

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#3 13-01-2006 7:29am
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No he didn't. He was just an autistic savant.

http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/rainman.cfm

RAIN MAN is a movie about two conditions - autism and Savant Syndrome. Not all autistic persons are savants, in fact only one in ten autistic persons have any savant abilities, let alone the prodigious skills of Raymond Babbitt.

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