Jason Padgett is an artist with alleged acquired savant syndrome. Jason was born in 1970 in the city of Anchorage, Alaska. As a young man, Jason dropped out of Tacoma community college and worked as a salesman for his father's futon company. His life changed on the night of September 13, 2002 when he was attacked and robbed by two men outside a local karaoke bar. This attack caused a change in his brain activitysource?. In 2021, he and his family moved to Carmel, Indiana after he wrote a program to determine a place to live.