Kim Peek (November 11, 1951 – December 19, 2009) was a unique autistic savant who was able to display many abilities associated with autistic savants - the inspiration for the movie named Rain Man and perhaps the most famous autistic savant of modern time. He had a photographic memory; could read an average size book in about one hour and could recall around 98% of the same; he could recall names of the around 12,000 books; he had fantastic mathematical abilities. Due to autism related complications, Kim Peek suffered from many disabilities. For instance, he could not walk until he was four years of age and could not normally walk for the rest of his life. He also had social skills issues. Kim Peek did not have any corpus callosum - he was born without one. The corpus collosum connects two