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Rain man question

  • 12-01-2006 5:21pm
    #1
    Sangre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,175 ✭✭✭✭


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


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  • #2
    esmurph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭esmurph


    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.

    Hope this helps


  • #3
    Kur4mA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Kur4mA


    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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