Is Bjork Aspie?

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28 Sep 2009, 11:35 am

the danish books know the truth... so don't rely on icelandic poets...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y

but she has a great sense of detail...

:wink:

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28 Sep 2009, 11:55 am

I don't like to conjecture about whether someone has an ASD or not, but, I did see something last night that reminded me so much of AS I have to mention it. PBS is running documentaries about National Parks in the US and, last night, there was a two hour episode on the Western United States, Yosemite and Yellowstone, and some places in Alaska. They bioed John Muir, describing his relationship with Yosemite and I couldn't help recognize some strong Aspie traits. It was almost like he became one with nature and the parks, he was talking to his surroundings, boulders and waterfalls, he was merging with the wilderness and totally passionate and dedicated to perserving it and learning about it. That made me think of Aspies

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28 Sep 2009, 5:53 pm

I like Bjork and was disappointed when they didn't pick her for the lead role in Smilla's Sense of Snow. The book the movie was based on is by Danish writer Peter Hoeg and the protagonist is a tiny, intense,solitary Icelandic woman with Inuit ancestry. Great Book!

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28 Sep 2009, 10:44 pm

I was totally mesmerized by Bjork when I first saw her in a Sugarcubes videotape that featured various scenes of her and other members of the group talking....This was in 1991...the year I joined my first band...and my bass player wanted us to be more like the Sugarcubes...

I am a huge fan of the Sugarcubes and anxiously awaited her first album...and I loved finding weird rare Bjork recordings and this and that....But I have not really followed her in a few years...

My old band used to cover "Motorcrash"....and it was really among the most enjoyable moments of performing with them....

Annnyway....One of the things I like about her and/or the Sugarcubes...are the really surreal lyrics...

I think that she is an original and an eccentric...but no telling if she deals with the sensory and TOM and social problems that most aspies have to contend with...Once can certainly be eccentric and unusual and not be an aspie.

I talk funny, and once or twice, people have told me I reminded them of her in the way that I talk...and maybe I talk the way I do because I am on the spectrum...and am also a vocalist.....Or maybe just because I am a vocalist....and maybe she talks the way she does because English is not her first language...or maybe she also "talk-sings"..because she is a vocalist.

No telling...

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29 Sep 2009, 3:33 am

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:

You can't rely on her stage persona or how she acts in interviews because you can't tell if it's staged or not. Celebrities tend to want publicity, so it could be a stage act. She could be totally opposite in person when the cameras aren't on. To conclude, I have no idea if she is one or not, unless she is diagnosed or makes a diagnosis public, or she herself speculates she is and makes that public. Then we have something to go on besides her public persona.

To be honest, I don't think she comes across as the type of person that would change her persona to live up to certain people's expectations. Just my thoughts.

I'll ask my specialist next time i see her

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04 Oct 2009, 1:54 am

aspi-rant wrote:

the danish books know the truth... so don't rely on icelandic poets...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y

but she has a great sense of detail...

:wink:

Another interesting interview

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlzixwWyrwU&feature=related[/youtube]

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10 Apr 2010, 2:58 pm

I think Bjork is on the spectrum; she hears music in everything, even in the sound of a pencil dropping or a train running along its tracks, as demonstrated by her Selma Songs soundtrack for Dancer in the Dark. I believe that this alone demonstrates an unusual level of sensory sensitivity and a deep connection to objects. I've noticed that, sometimes when being interviewed, she is in her own little world and has a faraway look in her eye, seemingly unaware that she is in a social situation as she talks endlessly about her fantasy world, as evidenced by the following interview. Her hair is even askew, but she doesn't seem to notice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d4rdat3HdA

She also has an unusually strong gift for avant-garde composition. She thinks inductively (a sign of the bottom-up processing spectrum people are so good at) about her art: in other words, art for art's sake, divorced entirely from social context and the usual musical categories that come along with social expectations. This is the evidence that has led me to conclude that Bjork is a musical savant and therefore autistic (I don't believe that savant syndrome can be divorced from autism no matter what the current authorities on autism say).

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10 Apr 2010, 4:23 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIegDXH5Ky0[/youtube]

All of these videos. I'd say she is.

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10 Apr 2010, 4:59 pm

"In her teens, Björk was influenced by punk; at 14 she formed the all-girl punk band Spit and Snot"

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10 Apr 2010, 5:02 pm

impoosible to say without tests so I wont, not everyone people think have aspergers has it, problyy its rarely dead on

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10 Apr 2010, 6:30 pm

Eggman wrote:

impoosible to say without tests so I wont, not everyone people think have aspergers has it, problyy its rarely dead on

What tests are you referring to?

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10 Apr 2010, 6:33 pm

the whole sresie of phsych and medical ones that i went through

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10 Apr 2010, 6:36 pm

Oh, and how could I forget to mention that swan dress and the egg purse?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnEJUio2DiE

By the way, I've tried to use the YouTube embed code, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

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10 Apr 2010, 6:54 pm

Use Youtube option above writing place. It should help you

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10 Apr 2010, 8:14 pm

hecate wrote:

i don't think she's an aspie. i get the impression that she intentionally acts weird to draw attention to herself. i'm the opposite- i try to behave normal but my natural aptitude for making a fool of myself shines through. but i like some of her music and i think she is very talented.

bingo. her persona is affected and cute but you don't get affected without calculation. I think she's a typical NT artistic type...

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10 Apr 2010, 8:20 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:

thepeaguy wrote:

Vejita wrote:

I saw a vid where she attacked a paparazzi in an airport, it was real fury, she would have really teared him to shreds if they haven't been separated, that was extremely violent... it can be Aspie sign, I believe...

Autism does not cause violent behaviours as the condition is cognitive, not behavioural.

Lol, no, but paparazzi do cause violent behaviors and understandably so

. Wish I would've seen that one though, It was probably pretty funny seing Bjork hammering on some dude like that...

she attacked a female reporter and there is one video that shows the whole event where after she had asked the reporter to leave them alone, the reporter walked up to her *child*, who is in a stroller, and stuck the microphone in the kid's face and said 'welcome to bangkok' (or wherever they were)...that was just the mama bear in her that came out after being fed up with this reporter. people shouldn't mess with people's kids like that.

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