Real life celebrities who have or probably have Aspergers

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LOL!

Daryl Hannah actualy has a diagosis.

After some of the things they say in Invader Zim, I'm convinded Jhonen Vasquez is somewhere on the spectrum or at least knows someone who is.

I Really think Tim Burton Is An Aspie, Helena Bonham Carter thinks So Too.

I've read in that new ESPN book that someone stated that "Olbermann is a genius, but he has the social skills of a special needs student." Might have been Dan Patrick, Bob Levy, Rich Eisen, who had said that about Olbermann, during their days in ESPN.

I've heard someone suggest Jon Heder before, too, Although I haven't took a look myself.

I think that a lot of these people mentioned could be PDD-NOS, if not Aspergers (ex. Daryl Hannah). I think labeling ASDs could be better with some of these names. I have PDD-NOS, and have similar characteristics as someone with AS, but I don't think I have it. Actually I was closer to Autism than AS when I was in the single digits anyways....

But it's still all in the ASD....

Well, I'm pretty convinced Eva Cassidy was an Aspie after reading extensively about her!!

I also think Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent has it as well. Siobhan Magnus probably has it, too, although I'm nothing like her at all.

How about Jesse Eisenberg?

He needs to act — and not just to keep busy, or keep paying his bills. He needs to act to keep his balance.
“I have a lot of personal anxieties,” he says, sitting in a New York hotel room. “And I’ve realized that playing a character stuck in a life-or-death situation like this allows me to release those anxieties in a very healthful, cathartic way.”
But his characters usually have a few things in common. They’re extremely bright. They’re extremely verbal. And yet they often seem more than a little confused about what people around them expect, emotionally — and exactly how they’re supposed to supply it.
They are characters, in other words, not unlike Jesse Eisenberg, who admits he finds playing people like that “gives me some direction for my erratic inner life.”
“I had a really tough time. But that’s not New Jersey’s fault. That’s my own psyche’s fault. Now as an adult living in New York City, I miss the suburbs. But growing up, in the kind of homogenous community I did, if you didn’t fit in the role that was sort of prepared for you, it could be very, very difficult.”
It got more difficult when school began.
“I really, really struggled,” he says. “I would cry every day. I went nuts, ended up missing a whole year. I just can’t — I can’t exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention — I would just withdraw. I literally didn’t know how to function.”
“Performing gives you a very clear set of directives,” he says. “You have this role that’s written out for you, the person you’re talking to has a role that’s written out for them and — at least as long as you’re on stage or the cameras are rolling — everything has this structure and this set of rules. You know your place. You don’t have to account for your own personality. And it creates this entirely fake social environment which can be very, very comforting.”
It’s not as if Eisenberg’s work is his life. Not quite. But the constant work certainly helps his life — even though the business itself can be pretty cold and callous.
“I sort of pretend I’m not even in the industry,” he says. “I don’t own a television. I never go to Los Angeles. I even trick myself into being surprised when I’m sent a script. I try to ignore everything except the actual experience of acting. Which in itself is kind of silly. I mean, sometimes I take a step back and I think, being an actor — it’s ridiculous, really, you’re not adding anything to the world. Why would anyone do this? But then other times I think, my God — how can anyone do anything else?”

Then again, he might just be someone who loves acting and has some anxiety issues (especially when doing interviews) and that's it.
Still like him.

I still stand by the fact that Billy Corgan most likely has Asperger's, I have Asperger's and his life resembles mine very closely, and his music is the one thing that keeps me sane.

I can completely relate to him. Especially the structure and set of rules. I hate when I have no set rules or directions. He says it very well.

I saw Richard Reeves, author of President Nixon: Alone in the White House, give a talk on C-Span.

He said Dick Nixon had three major interests.
1)sports, which he seemed to know everything there was to know,
2) campaign management, and it seemed like he would be happy to manage every campaign in the country, both sides,
3) and getting even, which he seemed to think about a heck of a lot.

Reeves told one story in which U.S. Border Control or somebody was showing off a new person detecting device. Dick walked past it and it went off and he said, See, I'm human.

There was a handwritten note in which Dick watched "All in the Family" for the first time and he described it, Archie is a square, other characters seem to make fun of him. Is this common on TV? That is, he didn't seem to really get the show, at least not at first.

In a question and answer period, Reeves said, no, Dick Nixon was just wired up differently.
http://www.amazon.com/President-Nixon-A ... 127&sr=1-1 (the book)

Now, Reeves didn't say Nixon was Aspie, but it did get me thinking.

--> This is the very interesting part. This is the C-Span video I remember. (and with waiting and introductions, it starts about 11:00 into it)
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/167320-2

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Other people, who have lived more positive lives, and who were probably Aspie include:

Carl Sagan,
Jane Austen,
Bertrand Russell

I brought it up on another sub forum but Doctor Drew Pinsky says former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman may have AS.

He hates making eye contact (so he wears sunglasses during some of his interviews).

He has meltdowns in games against referees.

Many of his Bulls teammates said he was monosyllabic and rarely spoke (shyness).

Speaking of shyness, he never got a date in HS and lost his V card to a prostitute at age 20.

Former Pistons teammate Joe Dumars talked about how hyperfocused Dennis was on defense and on the sole purpose of winning.

He is obsessed with defense and rebounding

He has a monotone voice.

But then...there are other symptoms of AS he doesn't fit also.

Everytime I think of famous aspies I always think of David Byrne, he said he was an aspie, and it is totally obvious. Talking Heads will never be recreated because the bass player claims that David Byrne is incapable of love. That is such a common aspie trait, not the trait of being unloving, but the trait of appearing unloving.

I beg to differ, Ted Bundy exhibited more signs of NPD narcissistic personality disorder than Asperger's syndrome.