Thristan Mendoza
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Thristan Mendoza (b. 1989) is a Filipino autistic savant and marimba prodigy.
Thristan "Tum-Tum" Mendoza was born 1989 in Quezon City, Philippines. He was enrolled at the Philippine Montessori Center and was diagnosed as autistic at the age of two and half. During the same year he began to play.
In 1997 the University of the Philippines presented him as a gifted child prodigy.