Famous Black People with/suspected to have Asperger's

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19 Jul 2009, 8:12 am

Lode wrote:
Genius =/= Autistic

A casual look around Wrong Planet further reinforces that statement... :wink:


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19 Jul 2009, 2:49 pm

I swear I remember reading somewhere that George Washington Carver may have had AS, but I'm probably misremembering things.


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19 Jul 2009, 9:37 pm

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I disagree. Michael Jackson was weird but he was not an aspie. You could be right with Miles Davis though.

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I'd say the main reason Michael Jackson was weird was because of Joe Jackson.



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19 Jul 2009, 10:04 pm

There is insufficient evidence to conclude whether or not Micheal Jackson had AS, but it is most certainly not an unreasonable suggestion, and nothing I know about Micheal Jackson indicates that it is unlikey, much less excludes it.



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19 Jul 2009, 11:38 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhGZdSkX6IM&feature=related[/youtube]

I suspect Ray Charles was on the Autstic spetrum, he's got a real feel for a music, which a lot of autistic people have a talent for. Also he seems to be steming when playing music. :chin:

Also watch him moving around all the the time, looks like he is stemming.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Azcpf6bTg[/youtube]


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20 Jul 2009, 1:00 pm

MR_BOGAN wrote:
Also watch him moving around all the the time, looks like he is stemming.


I think he just doesn't realize that he looks funny when he does it, since he's blind and all.

Watch Stevie Wonder, he does the same thing.


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20 Jul 2009, 8:09 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:
MR_BOGAN wrote:
Also watch him moving around all the the time, looks like he is stemming.


I think he just doesn't realize that he looks funny when he does it, since he's blind and all.

Watch Stevie Wonder, he does the same thing.


Here's an interview of stevie wonder then ray charles, stevie wonder seems to be sitting still compared ray charles. :chin:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzhBQdRLR7g[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0QWBoBzMN4&feature=related[/youtube]


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20 Sep 2009, 2:45 pm

Just because A black person is smart, doesnt mean they have asperger's syndrome. In that case William Shakespeare and all the rest of tose guys had it too



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18 Sep 2010, 4:20 pm

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STEVE URKEL


I was thinking this too, I am watching some episodes of Family matters and was wondering if he has some Asperger's too. Maybe just a little. He fits a lot of traits for it.



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21 Jun 2012, 4:47 pm

[Moved from General Autism Discussion to Random Discussion]


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21 Jun 2012, 7:23 pm

Both of the two giants of late fourties Bebop Jazz were definite possible aspies: saxaphonist Charlie Parker, and pianist/composer Thelonius Monk.

Especially the latter.



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21 Jun 2012, 10:45 pm

Yupa wrote:
STEVE URKEL


LOL!

A real life one would be Darius McCollum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_McCollum


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16 Nov 2012, 6:22 am

I've heard that Duke Ellington may have had it but it's hard for a black person to get a diagnosis because Asperger's is seen as an exclusively "white" thing, or so I'm told. Pretty sure autism is rampant through my family and no one is diagnosed except my niece. I'm guessing that most of the people looking for famous people with Aspergers are white people with Aspergers looking for other whites with Aspergers that are or used to be famous. And nooooo, not everyone that is autistic is a genius... maybe the potential, I'm not sure though.



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16 Nov 2012, 11:22 am

I was just thinking about steve urkel.

In all of those countless threads about fictious TV characters with aspergers he gets left out! He is definetly more aspie than House, and is atleast as aspie as Bones, and as aspie as any of the guys on the Big Bang Theory.

About real people.

The biggest musical geniuses of post war be bop were all african american.

Though most were clearly not aspie ( Dizzie, Miles).

But two were quite eccentric in ways that to me seem very aspergian: Charlie Parker, and especially Thelonius Monk.

Thelonius Monk almost certainly was an aspie IMHO.



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16 Nov 2012, 1:01 pm

Here's a video for Stephen Wiltshire:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTeSvCOFyE&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube]



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06 Jan 2014, 3:13 pm

EcKo3 wrote:
There's Stephen Wiltshire, the human camera. (WP won't let me post a video link)


Just checked him out. It says he has autism, but not Aspergers.


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