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Snoopy
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject: Famous Gay Aspies |
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| Wondering if anyone knows of any ? |
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abstrusemortal
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yeah, Daniel Tammet
that's his pseudonym
and maybe Isaac Newton, if you consider him having Asperger's, and there are also subtle indications in E.T. Bell's biography of him that question his sexuality
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asplanet
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Maybe Elton John would be our gay icon, I feel he could be a possible!!!
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darkfire627
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I could be famous...maybe.
I've never heard of any besides Daniel Tammet, but I'd be very interested to know more as well.
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Dhp
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Alan turin I think was gay. |
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Averick
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Dhp wrote: | | Alan turin I think was gay. |
Yep, Alan Turing was gay. |
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sinsboldly
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| asplanet wrote: | | Maybe Elton John would be our gay icon, I feel he could be a possible!!! |
he is gay and an icon, but an Aspie? Maybe Bernie Taupin, though he NEVER came out to play.
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Averick
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| Michelangelo was a little gay. |
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sinsboldly
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| Averick wrote: | | Michelangelo was a little gay. |
is that like being a little pregnant? 
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Mikomi
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| sinsboldly wrote: | | Averick wrote: | | Michelangelo was a little gay. |
is that like being a little pregnant?
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Bisexual?
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Averick
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| Mikomi wrote: | | sinsboldly wrote: | | Averick wrote: | | Michelangelo was a little gay. |
is that like being a little pregnant?
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Bisexual? |
No, actually more of a pederast. |
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pineapple
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| Isaac Newton...hmm...he may have been asexual, apparently he died a virgin... |
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Snoopy
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| The only ones I could come up with were Andy Warhol and Liberace |
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sinsboldly
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| Snoopy wrote: | | The only ones I could come up with were Andy Warhol and Liberace |
but they would have to be Aspie. I can't see either of them even on the Autism Spectrum let alone Aspie. IQ of Andy Warhol Pop artist USA 86
http://www.aceviper.net/estimated_iq_of_famous_people.php
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Icheb
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I found this at InternAUT:
LONDON (Reuters/Variety) - Late pop artist Andy Warhol may have been high-functioning autistic, according to a leading autism expert in Great Britain.
"It is fascinating how many of the things he did are typical of autism," said Dr. Judith Gould, director of Elliot House, Britain's leading diagnostic center for autism.
She pointed to his social ineptitude, love of uniformity, minimum use of speech and obsessive attention to detail as classic symptoms.
"I would say, from the study I have seen, that Warhol almost certainly had Asperger syndrome," said Gould, speaking to Sunday's Observer newspaper. She believed that the autism spectrum is often associated with prodigious talent and even with artistic genius.
Warhol, famed for his depictions of pop icons ranging from Elvis Presley to Campbell Soup cans, died in 1987 after a routine gall bladder operation.
InternAUT adds: Another leading autism researcher, Christopher Gillberg at the Childhood Psychiatric Clinic in Gothenburg, Sweden, devotes a chapter on the historical philosopher and mathematician Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) in his 1997 book Barn, ungdomar och vuxna med Asperger syndrom (Children, adolescents and adults with Asperger syndrome).
Gillberg concludes that Wittgenstein must have had Asperger syndrome, a form of high functioning autism.
Wittgenstein is also said to have been gay. |
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