Aspie role models?

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It occurs to me that Temperance Brennan from the show Bones might make a good Aspie role model. To my knowledge, it never says that she is, but she seems to fit a lot of the social impairments, etc.

What do you think?

Any other role models from today's media?

I know there are a lot of great scientists, musicians, etc, who are / were Aspie, but a more visible role model may have more impact for kids.

Albert Einstein.

I don't realy think it even matters that he's not alive anymore. The simple fact that you can say his name in a crowd of 500 people; with 499 knowing who it is, simply proves that he can serve as a role model for aspies.

I would like to see some role models that are

a) a real person, not a fictional character

b) confirmed to have Aspergers (not some historical figure who we think probably had it)

Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Every stupid, illogical NT utterance known to man he put to the white hot coals.

He may have been more ADHD....

Tom Hanks? Ellen Degeneres?(renegades lol)

Its funny with 'Bones'
The shows named after her and stuff, and shes the central character, but shes sort of an anti-hero....an object of strangeness and humour..... sometimes the show is barely about her..............................................rather than her being a true classical heroine star, shes more of a joke at times.

Desperate Housewives and Wife swap USA are on TV 2nite, woohoo!

I'm not an expert on ADHD, but if:

then I'm not sure how it could be suspected that Albert Einstein could have had ADHD. I would think he would have had to have been very focused and paid a lot of attention to detail , to what he was doing, and to what had gone before!(?)

...and probably all from Aspies aswell.

Its a bit like Canada and the USA competing for ownership of successful dual nationals.... same here between NZ and Australia.... and between Aspies and ADHDers....

Truth is many aspies have ADHD too!

Famous People with ADHD
Albert Einstein
Ansel Adams
Ann Bancroft
Beethoven
Alexander Graham Bell
James Boswell
Sir Richard Francis Burton
President George Bush (both)
Admiral Richard Byrd
Lord Byron
Thomas Carlyle
Andrew Carnegie
Jim Carrey
Gen. H. Norman Charles
Thomas Chatterton
Samuel Clemens
Samuel T. Coleridge
Christopher Columbus
Tom Cruise
Leonardo da Vinci
Salvador Dali
Emily Dickinson
Patty Duke
Thomas Edison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ernest & Marel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edward Fitzgerald
Malcomb Forbes
Henry Ford
Rick Fox
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Tom Gainsborough
Galileo
Bill Gates
Susan Hampshire
Handel
Mariette Hartley
Stephen Hawking
Wm Randolph Hearst
Ernest Hemingway
Bill Hewlett
Alfred Hitchcock
Dustin Hoffman

.More Famous people with ADHD...

Thomas Jefferson
Bruce Jenner
"Magic" Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Michael Jordan
Carl Jung, M.D.
King Karl XI of Sweden
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Jason Kidd
Evel Knievel
Bill Lear
John Lennon
Lewis and Clark
Carl Lewis
Abraham Lincoln
Luci Baines Johnson Nugent
Louis Pasteur
Gen. George Patton
H. Ross Perot



Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf
George C. Scott
George Bernard Shaw
Tom Smothers
Socrates
Steven Spielberg
Sylvester Stallone
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jackie Stewart
James Stewart
Richard C. Strauss
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Nicolai Tesla
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Ted Turner
Vincent Van Gogh
Jules Verne
Werner von Braun
Lindsay Wagner
Mike Wallace
General Westmoreland
Weyerhauser Family
Walt Whitman
Jamie Williams
Robin Williams
Tennessee Williams
Woodrow Wilson
Henry Winkler
Stevie Wonder
Virginia Woolf
F.W. Woolworth
Wright Brothers
Vince Lombardi
Robert Lowell
James Clark Maxwell
Steve McQueen
Mozart
David H. Murdock
Napoleon
Nasser
Isaac Newton
Jack Nicholson
Anthony Hopkins
Howard Hughes
Nostradamus




Edgar Allan Poe
Cole Porter
Elvis Presley
Dan Rather
Buddy Rich
Eddie Rickenbacker
Guy Ritchie
Joan Rivers
John D. Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller
Pete Rose
John Ruskin
Nolan Ryan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anwar Sadat
Pierre Salinger
Charles Schulz
Robert Schumann
Pablo Picasso
Charles Schwab

Gary Numan.