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05 Apr 2009, 12:15 pm

lz1982 wrote:

Peter Tork from The Monkees "came out" as Aspie recently. So did Gary Numar (he did the song "Cars").

I was just going to say that.

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05 Apr 2009, 2:26 pm

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Ackroyd and Spielberg? What are the reasons behind this one?

I only listed people who have publicly disclosed their diagnosis.

There seems to be skepticism from several people about Spielberg, so here is a source and here is another one.

My list was mostly drawn from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_the_autistic_spectrum which sources each claim in the endnotes.

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05 Apr 2009, 2:50 pm

Yeah, but neither of those articles has him saying himself that he has it. There's no direct quote.

I guess the reason I want a direct quote so badly is because I know all of the obstacles that would be there in Hollywood for an aspie. There's so much social subtlety... so much sleaziness... so much politics. Really, I WANT it to be true because I feel like if you can be an aspie in hollywood...

You can be one anywhere.

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05 Apr 2009, 10:50 pm

MizLiz wrote:

No direct quote, but claims that "he has been diagnosed with Asperger's" would be hard to make if they were simply false. I mean, you can claim Bill Gates (or whoever else) is an Aspie, but typically claims that someone has been diagnosed are more legit, as that is a more black-and-white matter. Anyways, I have seen the claim in enough legit biographies of Spielberg that I am willing to accept it, and I normally tend to be a skeptic towards dxing everyone as autistic.

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06 Apr 2009, 12:30 am

Orwell wrote:

Keith wrote:

Ackroyd and Spielberg? What are the reasons behind this one?

I only listed people who have publicly disclosed their diagnosis.

There seems to be skepticism from several people about Spielberg, so here is a source and here is another one..

I always remember Steven Spielberg's mother saying "My son, the genius. I am so proud, I am going to have my womb bronzed!" :lol:

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06 Apr 2009, 1:29 am

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Good point. It's not saying he "has" it. It's saying he's "diagnosed". Come to think of it, now that you mention it, I hear a lot of people saying Bill Gates "has" it, but the word diagnosed isn't a word that I've heard applied to Gates.

I just like that this is someone who's actually alive. It's much better than trying to apply it to Mozart or Wittgenstein (though... Wittgenstein... wow... I believe that one).

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06 Apr 2009, 3:25 am

Can you really frame a negative argument on why Bill Gates is not one of us and make it stick.
Watch any video on him and view his mannerisms. Talk to anyone who has worked for him. Read any biography about him. He is definatly one of us. For that matter so is Warren Buffet, read Snowball.

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06 Apr 2009, 12:32 pm

It's not a matter of whether or not he's "one of us". It's whether or not he's said he is. People from certain groups, aspie, gay, bipolar, and so on, like to claim members all the time. He's never said it. Until he does, I'm respecting his privacy.

Also, I know very little about him besides thinking he's a sneaky machiavellian as*hole.

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06 Apr 2009, 3:47 pm

MizLiz wrote:

Agreed. It doesn't matter how "obvious" it is that Gates is an Aspie, until the fact that he has been diagnosed is publicly available information, I put claims of his autism on the same level as claims about Jefferson and Newton.

However, I will also note that a news organization which Gates owns has, on several occasions, been permitted to run stories claiming that he has Asperger's. Now, most of these are editorial-type pieces, and certainly Gates does not personally approve every story MSN publishes, but I'm sure someone high up in Microsoft noticed that there were stories about Gates being autistic. If this were false, I would have expected a retraction to be published, stating that Gates was perfectly normal. If it were true, I would expect that a)he would come out as an Aspie, b)he would deny it, or c)not wanting to be public about it but also not wanting to risk drawing any more attention, he would just ignore the issue and let it fly under the radar. Still, this is not very convincing evidence. I'll wait until we hear a diagnosis announced to claim Gates as an Aspie.

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09 Apr 2009, 5:33 am

Daryl Hannah, stated that she is a dreamer, was diagnostic as boderline austistic, has obsesive beliefs, eg she is a vegan, only used solar poer of vegetable grease to run her car, etc. She states that she regularly sits to the side and watches poeple yet she is not dignosed, www.imdb.com

Spielberg, go and look at his really great films and what surround them. Mostly Jewish stories (Munich, Schindlers list), dinosaors and weird cool craetures (Jurassic park and Jaws) Aliens (ET, Close encounters of the thirs kind, War of the worlds) world war 2 (Shindlers list, Saving private ryan)
Cool kids stories (Transformers, Hook, Tiny toons, Tinitin) need I go on?

Point is Spielberg makes movies he likes, Aliens, cartoons, world war 2, Jewish relations, Archeology, dinosaurs. Other directors make one type of movie ex Michael Bay only makes action films. Spielberg also has a big fascination with making films. One of his first films was shot on a 8mm camera dipicting world war 2. And unlike other directors who take 2 years to make a film, Spielberg makes them a lot quicker.

Read up on him on imdb.com and you'll see a lot of Aspie traits in him

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09 Apr 2009, 8:59 am

Your argument seems to say he's not on the spectrum. Wouldn't someone more focused on one particular area (action films) have an obvious "obsession" or "special interest" be more likely to be on the spectrum? Wouldn't someone who makes movies in many different genres be considered more well-balanced and normal?

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09 Apr 2009, 9:31 am

Mage wrote:

I am diagnosed aspie, and enjoy the same spectrum of films that Spielberg makes. Maybe film making is his special interest more so than the genre. I am also quite competent at socialising with people who are in my line of work, but totally hopeless in a random gathering.

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11 Apr 2009, 10:51 am

lz1982, I recall the news of Gary Numan being seen as having Asperger syndrome yet, I feel there are a great many people out there in many professions whom are probably somewhere on the spectrum in one way or another.. actually, I once read about the drummer of the band,"Rush" having Aspergers but, this may merely be conjecture.Anyways, I'm glad to learn of so many people within the autistic range some know, some unknown and all.. I,myself would go as far as to say, Nikla Tesla probably was on the spectrum but, it's not easy to verify all of this though, there are sure a lot of people out there with autistic traits thought which, makes you wonder and all..

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14 Aug 2012, 7:00 am

When I first discovered Brook Brodack aka Brookers 6 years ago I was flabbergasted at her spirit and style, I couldn't imagine anyone could ever have been or be as passionate and unique as she is, ever since then I've sensed she is an aspie.

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14 Aug 2012, 1:11 pm

I always felt that Jesse Eisenberg could be one but he's diagnosed with OCD and some kind of anxiety disorder so maybe his behaviour makes sense in that light. But when I read stuff like this:

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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?”

Can't help but think of AS and then watching how he carries himself in interviews....too intresting. Just look at this interview.

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14 Aug 2012, 4:13 pm

i once went to this website,it was called wrongplanet.net and they said every single person that ever lived was an aspie

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