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Bodiless Gifts "What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here- that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened, by an intoxication or disease" A human poses the ability to develop specific talents in order to compensate for a deficiency in other areas. In an extreme view, Oliver Sacks explains how he, a neurologist and psychiatrist, witnesses these talents brought out by a disease. Many individuals, overlooked …

…forced them to develop a counter talent. How many others such as these case studies are in existence, unrealized by the world, and how many other people have superior gifts that we as a society overlook simply because a person's illness is the predominate feature of their lives? As Sacks demonstrated, all humans have the ability to develop hidden talents to compensate for a deficiency in another area, no matter how serious that defiance is.