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13 Jan 2009, 3:26 pm

Complete speculation on my part....Helen Clarke (MP for Mt Eden, and former Prime Minister of New Zealand), and probably her husband too.



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16 Jan 2011, 3:38 pm

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And as for Adolph Hitler being a psychopath, there is one problem with that idea. Not long ago I saw a documentary on TV about Hitler in which they said Hitler was absolutely devastated when his mother died, a weeping mess apparently. Apparently he said himself that he loved his mother but (only) respected his father. Hitler's grief over his mother's death was interpreted as evidence of some type of mental disturbance, but I think it's possibly the most normal behaviour of Hitler's that I have ever heard about.

I think people are much more complex than labels and categories, including the most evil and damaged people.


Only partial quote sorry. I was surprised to read about Hitler's behaviour toward his mother. Yet his remorse, real or otherwise, is not inconsistent for someone with antisocial personality disorder. I had the misfortune to meet someone that 'suffered' (sic) from such a condition and their ability to adopt and embrace an 'emotional set' at will is astounding.

I guess it acts as a kind of camouflage. To be able to commit some bad act and then put on a convincing display that puts him/her in the position of a victim.



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27 Jan 2011, 7:59 am

Look what I found on the back page of my 50th Anniversary Edition of To Kill a Mockingbird:
'Harper Lee...Her chief interests apart from writing are XIX century literature and XVIII century music, watching politicians and cats, travelling and being alone'.
I am sure that these were her own words and it sounds very Aspie for me.
This is the person that gave us the Radlies and the Finches (among which there were at least two persons with autistic spectrum disorder (though I think they were three and there were also a couple more who had scattered autistic traits), who was hyperlexic, had a tomboyish childhood, tried to stay away from public attention, never married (they said she actually had one romantic affair but this has never been confirmed) and wrote only one, albeit brilliant book.



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08 Feb 2011, 9:42 am

Curt von Bardeleben, the prototype of Alexandr Ivanovich Luzhin from The Luzhin Defence. There isn't much information on him but his life (and death) story became the basis of Nabokov's book. If it is all even remotely true, he was either a HFA or Asperger's - as we never get to know whether he started talking at a normal age. Anyway, what we know is that he was a socially awkward, executively deficient, clumsy, unkempt, extravagant person who had one brilliant talent in one very specific field - the game of chess. Killed himself at the age of 63.