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Hidden Talent of the Day: Taisia Sidorova’s art teacher admits she never would have given the 21-year-old’s skills a second glance, but now she says Taisia “has a natural talent for art” — and all it took was losing the left side of her brain.

The left hemisphere of Taisia’s brain was removed after it sustained irreparable damage in a car crash. Her doctors gave Taisia’s family very little hope for survival, let alone any real recovery, but they would not give up.

It took two years, but eventually, little by little, Taisia began to come around, even taking up sketching — something she had no interest in prior to the accident. “And she was really good too,” her mother Irina is quoted as saying. “We bought her some paints as well and is now top of the class for her creations.”

“The human brain is a remarkable thing,” said one of Taisia’s doctors. “The human brain is a remarkable thing - in her case the part that remains seems to have developed to compensate for the missing part - and at the same time given her a previously undiscovered talent for art.”

[dailymail / lifenews / oddity.]