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9CatMom
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05 May 2007, 8:30 pm

I know he has ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. I'm not sure if he has AS, though.



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05 May 2007, 8:49 pm

9CatMom wrote:
I know he has ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. I'm not sure if he has AS, though.


Wait it's Lou Gehrig's? Why did I think... Oh well it doesn't matter. My ignorance is corrected.


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05 May 2007, 9:28 pm

I thought he just had Lou Gehrig's disease. Although you never know. Probably a lot of scientists out there could be somewhere on the spectrum.


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17 Apr 2012, 10:38 am

RadiationHazard wrote:
It's Parkinson's.


Nope Its Motor nuerons!



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17 Apr 2012, 10:54 am

RadiationHazard wrote:
It's Parkinson's.


You are probably thinking of Michael J. Fox. The two are easy to confuse :) Hawking has theorized about time travel and Fox starred in "Back to the Future", so they do have a few things in common.



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17 Apr 2012, 11:12 am

I don't think its a good thing to speculate whether people have AS or not. However I do know for fact that Stephen Hawking does have a motor neuron disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It's a disorder that causes motor neurone degeneration in the brain which leads to the patient not being able to move or control their muscles. I believe his is an exceptionally rare case though because he has lived so long with it.
However as for aspergers? It's not documented. And I believe perhaps that is problems with eye contact and other things are probably related to his ALS. But I can see what you're saying. It's believed that a lot of prolific scientists could have had AS. I mean look at the common stereotype of a scientist: Nerdy, introverted, socially awkward etc etc. Make a little bit of sense. Especially since I think that some of the brightest minds have been autistic minds.
but yeah as for Stephen Hawking - all we can do is speculate. Which I think is not a good thing to do. Whether he has it or not - it's a private matter.



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17 Apr 2012, 1:10 pm

He has motor neuron syndrome. I doubt he has aspergers too.



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17 Apr 2012, 3:24 pm

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04 Apr 2018, 8:06 am

Every case of Asperger's is different but it sounds like Hawking didn't fit the mold when he was child in terms of schooling. Apparently, his teachers didn't think much of him and he didn't connect with his classmates. Other traits, had a fascination with physics, seemed to be a visual thinker and he was straight forward.