Listening to Kim Peek talk to us the other day was an incredible experience!! Hearing his story was very inspirational and amazing. Kim was born with agenesis of the corpus callosum, where the corpus callosum is compleely absent. He was 30 years old when he found out his lobes were fused together by a brain scan. Although he was declared mentally retarded at the age of nine months, he had memorized and could repeat every book that was read to him by the age of two! By the age of three he had memorized the dictonary, and at the age of five he started walking which docters had told him he never would, what an inspiration! By the age of fourteen Kim had finished the whole high school curriculum. He has also memorized the scriptures and other LDS books, all together he has memorized over 12,000 books! Although Kim has never taken piano lessons, he can play 85 percent of the classical music that he had heard when hew as around 5 years old! Because of Kims accomplishments, he recieved an honorary degree from Oxford University. This man is incredible and has so much talent and knowlege that i was blown away after hearing from him! He wasnt just a guy with a lot of knowlege, just by watching Kim i could see how sweet and caring he was to everyone around him. He is such a special person and i will never forget listening to him and how he changed peoples lives!
"Learning to recognize differences in others and treading them the way you want to be treated will make this a better world. Everyone is different."
-Kim Peek
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