Mr Donald Triplett's condition was first listed in a 1943 journal article. Read more at straitstimes.com.
He was a human calculator adept at arithmetic calculations and could count the number of bricks in a building at a glance. He was also the world’s first person to be diagnosed with autism.His nephew told US media that he died peacefully at home in the small town of Forest in the south-eastern state of Mississippi.
The late Mr Triplett was first examined by Austrian child psychiatrist Leo Kanner in 1938 when he was five years old.
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