calendar calculation savant skill

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My son Sam is nearly sixteen. For a few months he's been telling me, " I can

remember every day since I was born. " I kept quizzing him " Oh yeah? Well what

was your birthday party them in 1999? What was the weather like on Jun 17

2006? " And since he could never answer I assumed he meant the occasional

uncanny recollection he has of route we took to horseback riding when he was

four, song we sang to him when he was pre-verbal, etc. But last night at dinner

DH said, what exactly do you mean by that, Sam? And he meant, he can tell you

the day of the week for any date since his birth. So his siblings started

testing him, (especially my math genius second son) July 10 2001! Oct. 7 2002!

etc. Sam would say, " That, my friends, was a tuesday. " " That, my friends, was

a Monday " etc. We checked with iPhones and he didn't miss any date we threw at

him. The waitresses at the restaurant and a few people from nearby tables came

over to watch. He can't seem to do it prior to his birth, as he stated, but he

can do it into the future.

I always used to say my son didn't have any of those savant skills, but come to

find out, sixteen years on, that he does. Go figure.

Too bad it isn't transferable and has no connection to math ability! Darn!

Just a spooky magical brain quirk.