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By Cameron Robertson
Daily Mirror
31 December 2005

Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, 31, is awarded the MBE. He is famed for painting London's landmark buildings in astonishing detail, from memory.

Source: Daily Mirror
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid..._page.html
It's great that he's getting recognition. I wrote about him as a role model for youths who are autistic on the Celebrate Autism Now site.
I've seen a documentary about him a few weeks ago. His drawing ability is amazing.
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