_The r-word_

[Benjamin Barrett]

This word has definitely been around for at least a couple of years. Here's a site dedicated to it: http://www.r-word.org/

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Feb 21, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> A 51-year-old autistically-savant woman on TV says that, as children,
> she and her twin were called "the r-word." At first, I didn't get it.
> I don't know whether this word is new or is merely new to me.
> 
> The twins' savantism takes two forms:
> 
> 1) They can recall what was served in any meal that they've ever had,
> since about the age of three.
> 2) They can tell you the day of the week that any date that you care
> to name fell on or will fall on, BCE or CE, in about the length of
> time that it  takes the average person to name the day of the week
> that February 21, 2012, falls on.
> 
> They can also name the day and the date of anything relating to Dick
> Clark, upon whom they've had a life-long crush.

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