oh, Jacob. of course the mentally handicapped aren't useless. for example: there are some who would fall into the mentally handicapped category who have photographic memory's, to the point where they can look at a landscape for a few seconds, leave and then recreate the image exactly as they saw it down to the last detail. anything, in fact. just as long as they saw it once.
in the example i saw the subject even remembered exactly how many windows were in a skyscraper in the background of a landscape, and drew each window. the picture didn't look special, it looked more like an elaborate doodle (in biro), but once you realized the drawing was an exact replica of the view, well. i was amazed and impressed. they even went back to compare the picture with the location. everything was spot on, even little details i failed to notice before. that's fucking useful.
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