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It seems pretty obvious to me that vincent van gogh is an aspie, so is Einstein. Do you guys have more examples? I'd especially like some female examples that are both an aspie and a genius.

We'll need more history , you never know they could just be NT

Bill Gates is an Aspie and also a multibillionaire. Mozart the composer may have been an Aspie as well.

Famous people believed to have asperges:
-Albert Einstien
-Isaac Newton
-Elvis Presley
-Abraham Lincon
-Alexander Graham Bell
-Benjamin Franklin
-Emily Dickinson
-George Washington
-Henry Ford
-Ludwig Van Beethovan
-Al gore
-Bill gates
-Hans Christian Anderson
-Charles Darwin
-Thomas Jefferson
-Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
-Wolfgang Mozart
-Thomas Edison
-Mark Twain
-Vincent Van Gogh
-Nikola Tesla
-John Alexander McDonald

What's the obsession with labelling people anyway? You relate to them or you don't, no need for a label that could be considered an anachronism since I think AS is defined relative to the prevailing norms of the culture. Previous cultures I think were more neurodiverse and in that context, AS doesn't carry much meaning.

Mark Zuckerberg, the man who made facebook and the youngest billionaire alive was professionally diagnosed with AS so is it irony that a man with a different view of the world just like us with below-average social skills has made the most popular social networking site around today.

WB yeats may be an Aspie as well as his poems shows his love for nature to the point it seems obsessive.

I was told a story about what AS is like:
That the person sees the world in a completely different way than most people see and have trouble communicating that difference. That's why so many innovators may have this syndrome.

I think probably at least 70-90% of the "supposed" aspies aren't really autistic at all. Just highly intelligent people. And I think it's bull to diagnosis people who have been dead for like a hundred years.

It's undeniable that most intelligent and gifted people are quite quirky and Aspie-like.

I'm tired of quirky=autistic. I know and know of plenty of people who are quirky and don't have major social difficulties for example. Most of the so-called famous autistic people are in jobs that are so demanding socially I have a hard time believing that at all.