Music Prodigy with autistic disorder

I watch this video from 60minutes. It's about a boy how has some sort of autistic disorder ( they use another word which is not autistic but I don't know that word). He can hardly communicate with other, do some basic stuff such as walking around his apartment, wearing his shoe. However, when it come to playing piano, he is a genius. Even though, he is blind or has vision disability, he don't have to read a note from music sheet. He just improvise what he hear. This ability is amazing. Now, his teacher is trying to teach him how to improvise and compose the music which I think that it's all about using creativity. So this raise a question in my head about creativity. Do people need to have fully function brain to be creative? The answer is no but what really make us creative is still a question.
Another interesting thing is the story is that this kid can compose music but he doesn't have any real emotion connection with the music or I can say that his music is just a music without any message or meaning. This is the result from his experience, I think. He cannot communicate well, cannot control or demonstrate his emotion like other can. So it reflects in his work. Anyway, I still think that is boy is so gifted and there is nothing that human cannot do if we really give it a try.


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