Famous people with autistic traits

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04 Jun 2008, 7:28 pm

EEEEEE, Joon is on there. They should add Sam too and the actor Johnny Depp.

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04 Jun 2008, 8:47 pm

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Really frustrating and disappointing...non of the links I tried worked and there was no bio's to justify the persons opinions. In my mind it just makes people who "claim famouse ASers" lose crediability and start "urban mythes and rumors"...very disappointing site. :cry:

The problem with analyzing people who are dead is that you can't ask them questions. The problem with analyzing people who are living is that everyone speculates about them and they don't have time to answer any of this nonsense. I think you can tell for historical figures who are well documented (that they're autistic or close). The problem is no one is looking at these people in enough detail and in the right way. There are too many disagreements on what autism looks like in us for researchers to have consensus on historical figures.

I like silly lists like this. People will speculate and this puts it into some perspective.

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05 Jun 2008, 10:49 pm

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I've noticed the late Syd Barret (of Pink Floyd fame) isn't on their, despite several rumours of AS....

Before or after the alleged acid trip? @_@

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06 Jun 2008, 12:27 am

nicky reilly is kind of famous

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06 Jun 2008, 2:16 am

God is totally nonverbal and LFA.

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06 Jun 2008, 5:56 am

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EEEEEE, Joon is on there. They should add Sam too and the actor Johnny Depp.

I am so sure Joon has an Autistic Spectrum Disorder instead of Schizophrenia.

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06 Jun 2008, 11:37 am

So many interesting guesses, but they've missed out alot of people who have actually been diagnosed(craig nicolls,satoshi tajiri, temple grandin, vernon smith.)

wikipedia is more accurate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pe ... c_spectrum

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06 Jun 2008, 3:22 pm

One person who isn't on the list - or any list of contemporary famous people with AS I've seen - is the author Robert Rankin. My husband, who's a bigger fan of his than I am (I've read a few of his books but I don't think he's as funny as, say, Terry Pratchett), said he heard him interviewed on the radio sometime and he actually mentioned that he had AS.

I agree, trying to spot it in people long dead is well nigh impossible, and 'diagnosing' it purely from the public behavior of the famous who are still alive is unwise. With fictional characters, you're on safer ground maybe...and it's especially interesting spotting it in characters from novels, movies etc. dating from well before AS was well known.

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06 Jun 2008, 4:19 pm

I like the wiki one better.

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06 Jun 2008, 4:22 pm

Interesting list.
Though I disagree with having Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes in that list. He's too socially aware and skilled to be an aspie, traits or not. XD

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06 Dec 2009, 1:08 pm

Bill Gates
Michael Palin
Alfred Hithcock
Isaac Newton
Jane Austen
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Thomas Jefferson
Michelangelo
Mozart
George Orwell
Dan Aykroyd
Beethoven
Thomas Edison
Woody Allen
Michael Jackson
Henry Ford

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06 Dec 2009, 1:30 pm

t0 wrote:

krex wrote:

Agree. It's autisnob propaganda. Until someone develops an accurate DNA test, digs up Einstein's body and performs the test on his remains, I will never believe that he was on the spectrum. That goes for anyone else on the list that is dead.

Rather than celebrating these people as potential spectrum residents, we should celebrate them for having unique qualities that allow them to contribute to society. Rather than pushing "AS is good - Einstein must have had it" we should be pushing "Unique thinkers are good - Einstein was one and so are many people with AS."

They did study on his brain and the structure was abnormal resembling the brain structure of someone on the autistic spectrum.

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06 Dec 2009, 3:09 pm

Isn't this a very old topic?

History channel had a show yesterday about the famous detective Allan Pinkerton. They described him as cold and calculating. He had no social connections, took pride in his meticulous work, and had very cold eyes which could see right through a person.

That made me go hmmmmm?

I won't tell you that he had AS because a retroactive diagnosis over a 100 years later is impossible. But the traits are certainly there.

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