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15 Jun 2010, 1:46 am

Gary Numan is an Aspie. He has talked about it in interviews.



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15 Jun 2010, 2:50 am

Amanda Baggs: Autistic advocate.
Satoshi "Gotta catch em all" Tajiri: Creator of Pokemon.
Hans Asperger
Vernon L. Smith: Nobel Prize alum
Bhumi Jensen: Thai Prince
Daniel Tammet: award winning Author and he certain enjoys Pi(e), and has created his own language.
Derek Paravicini: Blind musician, with excellent musical memory.
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln: He went rhough time and gave a speech to American high school students ;)
George Orwell


etc etc etc.



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15 Jun 2010, 3:33 am

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I am getting sick of those threads. For the last time NO THEY DIDN'T HAVE AUTISM, YOU KNOW WHY? THEY WEREN'T f***ing DIAGNOSED.
Also you can't say fictional characters are autistic either unless it was intentional.


What? A diagnosis identifies autism, it doesn't cause it. *Insert famous person here* may not have had autism, but saying that they definitely didn't is just as dumb as saying that they definitely did.


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15 Jun 2010, 4:33 am

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Will there be more aspie heroes - real and fictional - in the year 2030? Perhaps some of us will fill the vacuum. I'm pretty sure that some of us are already thinking it. Don't regard this as a matter of what we should do - it is a matter of what we were already going to do. I don't think me saying this has much effect on how many aspie heroes there will be in the future one way or the other.

I like to think that we're all heroes......we might not become household names but we can act locally.



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15 Jun 2010, 8:30 am

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Really? Which symptoms did Mozart exhibit?



In a documentary it said that as a child he hated high-pitched sounds. Also he dislike the flute for no apperant reason. He also wrote about it in his letters to his father. Especially his the way he talked about it was very familiar to me. I think the documentary was BBC's Great Composers series.

Bach and Beethoven may have had it as well. Especially the the portrayal of Beethoven in "Immortal Beloved" was very close to an aspie. But its only a portrayal.



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15 Jun 2010, 9:13 am

ToughDiamond wrote:
I like to think that we're all heroes......we might not become household names but we can act locally.

You just made me smile :)