Wed. Dec 18, 2002
Inner Artist Revealed in Man with Dementia
Inner Artist Revealed in Man with Dementia – In essence, this story is about a man with a brain disorder that “impairs abstract thinking, judgment and language abilities, and may lead to inappropriate behavior. By age 70, the man’s dementia had progressed to the point that he was no longer responsive to others, and he had trouble understanding words and sentences.”
“One day, though, the man’s wife put pencils in front of him, and he began to draw. According to his wife, he had never been interested in art, but for the next 6 months, he drew at the same hour every day.”
I’ll summarize the equation, if you haven’t already done it yourself. Impaired judgement poor social skills inappropriate behavior + dementia = Artist.
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In fact, as I saw on a documentary on dutch television recently, it has something to do with a brain disorder, that can be caused by dementia, but that is also found in people with certain types of autism (the movie Rain Man isn't just a story, you know). One of these very gifted, but autistic people is Stephen Wiltshire. He has a photographic memory for drawing things. Very interesting stuff, you can check it out at www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk.