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Alycat
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 Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: Real life celebrities who have or probably have Aspergers |
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I thought this would be apropriate since we have a thread for imaginary characters on the spectrum.
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Alycat
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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Is nobody posting suggestions because they can't think of any, or because they don't want to speculate?
Please post suggestions of real life people who have or may have Aspergers.
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Mage
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I really don't like to speculate, especially considering I'm not a trained psychologist and I've never actually met a celebrity (besides Alex Jones, and I'd have to say he's more paranoid schizophrenic than anything).
But I have heard rumors that Darryl Hannah is autistic, and that would not surprise me if it were true. I remember seeing her on a talk show once and thinking there was something not right about her. |
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spudnik
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Mage wrote: | I really don't like to speculate, especially considering I'm not a trained psychologist and I've never actually met a celebrity (besides Alex Jones, and I'd have to say he's more paranoid schizophrenic than anything).
But I have heard rumors that Darryl Hannah is autistic, and that would not surprise me if it were true. I remember seeing her on a talk show once and thinking there was something not right about her. |
I have to agree, I am sure if a famous person wanted to make it public that they have AS they would have done so, their health issues are their own business.
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Sling
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:42 am Post subject: |
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Patrick Moore.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Dan Aykroyd supposedly has it.
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PunkyKat
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| Mage wrote: | | But I have heard rumors that Darryl Hannah is autistic, and that would not surprise me if it were true. I remember seeing her on a talk show once and thinking there was something not right about her. |
Darryl Hannah has Asperger's. My mom saw her on a talk show and she said that she does. So does someone in Pink Floyd. I remember reading an accout from someone who knew Dave Matthews personaly (or someone with a simmaliar name) saying that he has AS. |
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Mage
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: |
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I was kinda going by this blurb in her bio page on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000435/bio
"As a child Daryl was so shy that at one point she was diagnosed as borderline autistic. Even today she says she likes to just sit in a corner & observe people."
So there probably wasn't any diagnosis Asperger's when she was diagnosed in the 70s/80s but if she was a child in the '00s that might have been the case.
Of course you always have to take IMDB info with a grain of salt, but I'm not about to argue with it since it does kind of make sense when seeing her. |
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CelticRose
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I've wondered lately whether Paul Simon might be an Aspie. His song "I Am A Rock" and his many songs about difficulty communicating sound like they were written by someone with AS. Also, he often seems very ill at ease onstage.
Just speculation.
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| Steven Speilberg and Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of "Pokemon", are diagnosed with it. Maybe George Lucas has it? |
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DocStrange
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:00 am Post subject: |
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This is who Wikipedia lists.
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rhs
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Mage wrote: | I really don't like to speculate, especially considering I'm not a trained psychologist and I've never actually met a celebrity (besides Alex Jones, and I'd have to say he's more paranoid schizophrenic than anything).
But I have heard rumors that Darryl Hannah is autistic, and that would not surprise me if it were true. I remember seeing her on a talk show once and thinking there was something not right about her. |
I met her before...maybe... |
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