The world's smartest gay man

Daniel Tammet may be the most intelligent gay man alive today. An autistic savant, he's recited 22,514 digits of the infinite number pi from memory, speaks 11 languages and learned Icelandic in a week after accepting the challenge as part of the documentary Brainman.

But what's remarkable about Tammet is that, in addition to having a brilliant and fascinating mind, he is able to articulate much of how his thinking works.

"This associative thinking, making unusual associations... is not rare, it might be the rule of how autistic people think," says Tammet from his home in Avignon, France. "There are as many types of autism as there are people who have the condition."See

The world's smartest gay man

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