famous people with aspergers?

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The one's that stick with me are Bill Gates, Leanardo da vinci and Albert Einstein

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David Byrne, love his music.

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Wasn't Newton said to have been AS?

Difficult to tell with the dx post-mortum, though.

I think it would be more appropriate to limit the term to those who've been officially diagnosed.

Gary Numan...not the best of the song writers out there, but definately has AS. (Cars - 1980)
James Taylor - better songwriter, and has AS
I think Alan Turing had some form of Autism.
Ramanujan - Mathematician - (okay, AS wasn't discovered at this time, but if you read about him like I did, one would definitely suspect AS)

Never heard about James Taylor. That's interesting. He's been diagnosed?

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I adore James Taylor. His voice and music. No surprise I had a major crush on him more than 30 years ago.

I finally got those emoticons emoting, thanks be to Jim.

Good show ! ! Finally someone else mentioned his name ! !

~Ahem~ Check some of the details of Walt Disney's character. As a child, he had an uncle who was a hobo, and definitely peculiar. Walt was a terrible judge of people, and frequently fired animators for no good reason. At the same time, he was brillantly insightful and creative. Married, but not terribly ineterested in his wife, or for that matter, women in general.

if you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_spe ... n_autistic and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pe ... c_spectrum, it is quite interesting in fact.

I don't believe any post-mortem diagnosis of AS. Frankly there are many other disordrs that can fit the bill which is not necessarily conclusive of Asperger Syndrome, one in mind is Schizoid Personality Disorder. So I believe not in anyone's "assurance" at claiming "HE DEFINITELY HAD ASD!" It's bs to me.

I'll be famous in 20,000 years.

Unlikely, but not impossible. Not your name, of course, but your work.

That's roughly six hundred generations, assuming there's three generations to a century. Personally I can't distinguish one person from another if they're more than fifty or so generations removed from me but that's not to say noone can. But for me, more than ten thousand years ago they're definitely all a blur.

It's not so weird really. Everyone lives in a sort of bubble; they remember things in the past, they recognize things around them, they anticipate things in the future. FOR THEMSELVES. For me, that bubble is very large.

Is it hard? You betcha. Is it harder than living in a refugee camp or a brothel? I doubt it.

IMO "Schizoid Personality" and "Non-Verbal Learning Disorder" are just varieties of AS is the loose sense (autism without speech delays). A somewhat paranoid Aspie with special interests that are not obvious could get a SPD label instead of an AS label very easily.

From what I've came across in regards to famous people part of the spectrum I'll go along with American President-
Thomas Jefferson and Wolfang Amadeus Mozart oh, and possibly actress Daryl Hannah and comedian Dan Akroyd..



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From what I've read about Newton, there is no way that guy didn't have AS. Stanley Kubrick is another obvious choice. I would love to claim both Mozart and Beethoven as aspies, but I don't know enough about their lives really to say. They were certainly less eccentric than Newton, though.

Wow, Daryl Hannah, I always liked the roles she played in like the mermaid in Splash.