“Because I don’t talk much, people think I don’t have anything to say or that I am stupid. And that’s not true. I have lots of things to say. I am just afraid to say them.” (A Brilliant Young Mind, 2015). A Brilliant Young Mind movie based on true events begins with this monologue from the main character, Nathan. During his primary years, Nathan was diagnosed with being on the spectrum of autism combined with synaesthesia which is a sensitivity to change of light and patterns. He was so extremely gifted in math, that his mother sought out a school setting to support this gift and he began receiving instruction at the high school level with a specific math teacher trained in the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
The sudden death of