Famous ASpies ??

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This is a list I made in High School of people I thought were Aspies at the time, could be way off or not. I really do not remember why I picked all the people I did, but if you ask me I will try my best to remember why. enjoy !

1. David Byrne
2. Brian Wilson
3. Hilary Swank
4. Winona Ryder
5. Daryl Hannah
6. Val Kilmer
7. Nicole Kidman
8. Renne Zellweger
9. Jack White
10. Rivers Cuomo
11. Ian Curtis
12. Nick Drake
13. Bobby Fischer
14. Cybill Shepard
15. Jodie Foster
16. Julia Roberts
17. Bill Murray
18. Jeff Goldblum
19. Christopher Walken
20. Nick Nolte
21. Daniel Day Lewis
22. Russell Crowe
23. Kevin Spacey
24. John Travolta
25. Michael Stipe
26. Warren Zevon
27. Fiona Apple
28. Mariah Carey
29. Sting
30. Slash
31. Avril Lavinge
32. PJ Harvey
33. Bjork
34. Tori Amos
35.Kate Bush
36. George Clooney
37. Matt Dillon
38. Guy Pearce
39. Eric Bana
40. Helena Bonham Carter
41. Tom Cruise
42. Anthony Hopkins
43. Ben Stiller
44. Janeane Garafolo
45. Jack Nicholson
46. Sylvester Stallone
47. Jim Carrey
48. Sharon Stone
49. Billy Bob Thornton
50. Nancy Spungen
51. Bobby Fischer
52. Jonathan Davis
53. Beck
54. Brian Jones
55. Phil Spector
56. Sly Stone
57. Layne Staley
58. Charlie Sheen
59. Ben Affleck
60. Jennifer Love Hewitt
61. Jake Gyllenhall
62. Sinead O'Connor
63. Jane Wiedlin
64. Robert Smith
65. Shirley Manson
66. Lewis Carroll
67. Britney Spears
68. Eminem

P.S: In case anyone is wonderng, I have no more giant Aspie lists. This is the last one I made when all I could think about was famous Aspies. Looking back I think I had a problem but with therapy got it under control.

Asperger athletes:

Paavo Nurmi, Finland-very remote, obsessed with running, obsession cost him his marriage, called shy, remote and unapproachable

Jules Ladoumege, France-Jumped out of his skin at the sound of loud noises, quiet, lived a hermitlike life with only a dog and a cat for company at the time of his death

Roger Bannister, England-Quiet, intelligent, very serious minded, scientific, a physician. Probably most successful famous person with Asperger's.

John Landy, Australia-As a child, he was an avid entymologist. Could identify any species of butterfly on sight.

omg yeah straight Guy Pearce who lives separate from his wife and has issues.

Daniel Day Lewis who pulled out of lucrative movie career

Rivers Cuomo maybe and he is now married to a Japanese woman and if she is the same woman he liked years ago that would be so great and so aspie.

Renne Zellweger and Nicole Kidman were based off of information I got from someone a long time ago that they were diagnosed with AS by Tony Attwood .

Joss Whedon because he twists language the same way I do.

The editor of French Vogue who says that she is much nicer than her facial expression would indicate and that she has a hard time connecting with people but is actually a quite nice person. Thank goodness the French are so kind and tolerant and allow an aspie to shine without her being able to socialize in a backslapping American way.

I based my Hilary Swank observation on this: Swank has also described her younger self as an "outsider" who felt that she belonged "only when [reading] a book or [seeing] a movie, and could get involved with a character", and was thus inspired to become an actress
and the fact that she was originally going to play the lead female role in "Mozart and the Whale".

This is where I got Jack White from:White is known for his eccentric behavior, hobbies, and passions. For instance he has an obsession with the number three and all that it represents. His love for "three" started when he was an upholstery apprentice and noticed that three staples were holding the fabric to the side of the furniture. He began thinking of other trios that were minimal and powerful, most of all the Holy Trinity.
Also the way he conducts himself in interview strikes me as Aspie-like.

Winona Ryder for not getting why she was severely picked on to the point of being gaybashed in high school and her very aspie reaction to seeing her tormentor who tried to make nice with her years later.

Honestly, do you people ever turn off the telly?

What about Salvidor Dali??

Here's another one, look him up on Wiki.

Conlon Nancarrow, wrote music for player piano. Erm, yes, he sat at a special machine that punched the holes in a sheet of paper for the player piano to use. Another possibility for ASpie Patron Saint.

Nikola Tesla.

Brian Wilson came from his autobiography I read and saw how much he compared to me in handling the world as a teenager and after he became successful. However, I am not totally certain that Wilson is one of us because in the book it stated that he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and on a Larry King interview a couple years ago he talked about hearing voices in his head and how he ignored them. So it could be either one .

Klaus Kinski

I was going to write a long post detailing all the little clues that support the idea that Klaus Kinski had AS, then I found this video on youtube...

Its is an interview on German TV - Kinski looks very very Aspie. He talking to a stupid hypersocial TV host and it seems that poor Kinski does not know what to do. He has no eye contact with the interviewer, the questions are too general; an Aspie is only good at answering specific/factual questions not these silly ramblings!

I felt quite upset to see this, as it is exactly how I can feel and behave in situations like this. Its that disparity between his brilliance at acting but difficulty at socialization decides it, Kinski was an Aspie.

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

Speaking of Kinski, what about Werner Herzog? I've read some wonderful stories about how he makes his movies, forcing actors and workers to the breaking point. His penchant for shooting realistically no matter how uncomfortable the actors are.

I suppose that is why they worked together, they were both very intense and obsessive people. Obsession is a central theme of many of Herzog's films.

By the way, at one point Herzog directed Kinski using a shotgun and the Native American extras offered to kill Kinski for Herzog, as they thought Kinski would kill Herzog first.

I think you're referring to a now legendary incident during the filming of "Aguirre". Supposedly Kinski was so tired of being in the jungle he was refusing to carry on. Herzog pulled a revolver on him and told him to keep acting. However, I've heard the story reversed, and Kinski claims he pulled a gun on Herzog!! !