Although there is a common association between savant syndrome and autism (an association made popular by the 1988 film Rain Man), most autistic people are not savants and savantism is not unique to autistic people, though there does seem to be some relation.
Selvom mange associerer autister med savanter (en associering skabt af filmen Rain Man fra 1988), er langt de fleste autister ikke savanter, og savantisme er ikke unikt for autistister (selv om der lader til at være en forbindelse ).