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Autistic people found to have superhuman vision.
Research carried out by E Ashwin and colleagues at the Autism Research Center at Cambridge University, England and presented in May of '08 at the International Meeting for Autism Research in London, as reported in Nature 18th December 2008 (see Pubmed articles here) show that people with ASC (autistic spectrum conditions) have better vision than normal people by a factor of about three. The subjects showed acuity of around 20:7. as compared to the control group of 20:13 To put this in context an eagle has a visual acuity of about 20:6.