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Is either Alan Turing or Charles Babbage Aspies?

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25 Sep 2007, 6:49 pm

Check these guys out. Are they Aspies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_babbage


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25 Sep 2007, 7:24 pm

Alan Turing has been labelled as a probable aspie by Tony Attwood and at least one other writer. I've wondered about Babbage and Lovelace myself, but haven't looked into it.