LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — By no stretch of the imagination had Cody Clark solved the Rubik's cube. The puzzle in the magician's left hand was a scattered mess of colors.

But Clark is autistic, and his mind works differently.

Moments before, he'd passed a second cube around the audience and let the crowd twist it at random. Right, left, up, down, backward, forward — and just one more turn for good measure — they jumbled the colored sides.

Then he held the two blocks side-by-side and rotated them, revealing he'd copied the disorganization from the crowd's cube to his own in a split second.

The audi...