who famous is an aspie?

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moelking
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30 May 2007, 3:38 am

i just found out that i am an aspie and wondering who i can relate to. but it does explane alot about me and my past. :?:

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30 May 2007, 3:50 am

All them listed are rather geekey look at wikipedia so i relate to none of them.

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30 May 2007, 4:22 am

Einstein was pretty cool if you read his life story, he nearly got kicked out of school for arguing with teachers and stood up for what he believed during and after WW2.

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30 May 2007, 5:05 am

Jimi Hendrix, but he is also dead

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30 May 2007, 6:59 am

Kosmonaut wrote:

Jimi Hendrix, but he is also dead

Jimi Hendrix did not have Asperger's where did you read that? If anything he had Manic Depression < get that? :wink:

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30 May 2007, 10:12 am

They say Anthony Hopkins is an aspie (based on things he said in an interview; see this thread), and it does make a lot of sense to me, but it's not official. The Einstein thing is not official either; they say he was not only autistic, but dyslexic, synesthesic, etc.

In Wikipedia, I found the following lists that may be of interest:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autistic_people
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_spe ... n_autistic

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30 May 2007, 10:26 am

Supposedly Gary Numan, the musician who did the song "Cars" back in the 1979 era of early new wave rock. I have also heard that Fiona Apple is an aspie chick.

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30 May 2007, 10:34 am

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30 May 2007, 12:57 pm

alexbeetle wrote:

Einstein was pretty cool if you read his life story, he nearly got kicked out of school for arguing with teachers and stood up for what he believed during and after WW2.

Im reading "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes and that leaves you wondering if half of the people behind both the project and the discoveries before are on the spectrum.

I found the following http://www.aspergers.org.uk/index.php/n ... us_aspies/ although maybe we should keep the thing about the creator of pokemon quiet.

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30 May 2007, 7:51 pm

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30 May 2007, 10:19 pm

Angelina Jolie

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30 May 2007, 10:45 pm

Nikki Bacharach, Daniel Tammet, and the creator of WrongPlanet, Alexander Prank (seriously you can google him)

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31 May 2007, 3:38 am

Snoopy wrote:

Angelina Jolie

No way

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