Famous ASpies ??

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Here Is My List..... well I dont know if it counts they are fictional characters....

1.) Ralph Cramden
2.) Al Bundy
3.) Ed Norton (from The Honeymooners)
4.) Martin Riggs
5.) James Bond.... (Possibly)

If fictional characters are in, then Bert from Sesame Street definitely goes on the list.

Here is a list of some famous people who do have it:

Dan Aykroyd
Richard Borcherds
Vernon Smith
William Cottrell
Craig Nicholls
Gary Numan
Dawn Prince-Hughes
Satoshi Tajiri
Temple Grandin
Liane Holliday Willey

One more thing that I would like to add is that a lot of the people suggested on this thread are pure speculation at best (It is unsure if Issac Newton ever had autism for example, though he is suspected of having bipolar).

You got the one I was going to toss out there; I was just reading through Tesla's Wiki article, particularly the Personality section, and the thought that he might be somewhere on the spectrum occured to me.

Good fortune,

- Icarus is roughly twice as half as weird as Tesla...

Tesla is a good candidate for Patron Saint of ASpies.

He could "see" circuits in his mind, and was quoted as saying he could mentally design a dynamo, run it, and even diagnose mechanical problems it would have, before ever setting pencil to paper. Edison cheated him out of a huge sum of money, and actively opposed alternating current. Tesla sold the rights to Mr. Westinghouse, and again lost out. He wouldn't shake hands because he was germophobic, and washed his hands 20 times a day. Never married, and died in poverty and obscurity. His story is enough to make you cry!! ! The man invented the electrical current used the world over today, and died penniless!! !!

Correlation does not mean causation, many people can visualize things very well and they don't have to have autism to do it....

It is not clear if Nikola Tesla ever did have autism because all we really have are anecodetes to back our assumptions...

Sean Young who badmouthed nearly every male larger costar she was acted with and who left for the desert for ten years and claimed to have done yoga every morning with the coyotes but returned to Hollywood looking bloated. I saw her once when she had already made Blade Runner and possibly No Way Out. She wore no makeup and was perfectly beautiful, more beautiful than she photographed. She always told reporters that she was bullied by other girls for being too beautiful but not every beautiful person gets bullied at school.

Also, Lara Flynn Boyle who also told every reporter that she was bullied as a kid for being too pretty.

Quite true my friend. Anyone dead is past the possibility of a DX.

Do read up on Tesla, though. He's utterly fascinating....

Next up: Hans Christian Anderson. He was quite plain, but wanted to be an actor. Never married, and was so solitary he rigged up a remote mirror so he could see who was knocking at his door without them seeing him. Wrote those beautiful children's stories dealing with a main character who was different than others. (By the way, the Hollywood movie about him is complete bollocks.)

Oh, and H.P. Lovecraft. Married for a short time, then divorced, but still stayed in touch with his ex. Wrote those wonderfully macabre stories from nightmares he had (! !! !~???) Loved cats, few close friends, very eccentric behaviour, ended up living off a small inheritance. More or less died penniless of cancer. Didn't like to travel, stayed close to his beloved Providence. Not much recognized during his lifetime for his work because he didn't promote it. Wrote all his stories in tiny, crabbed handwriting.

Tesla is one of my favorites .

I personally find Nietzsche to be a rather interesting person, if you read up on him and his life.

Martin Bryant.

It ain't all "smart" and "good" people who have AS.

Perhaps I should open the nominations for ASpie Patron Saint.

Nietzsche would be a very good candidate. I always enjoyed the story (true or not) about him seeing a donkey being cruelly whipped, ran across the square to throw his arms around the poor creature's neck, and fell to the ground babbling insane.

Love his aphorisms.

yeah. i can see the genetic symetry in that... and obviously, i did not get the "invent the television" gene like great-uncle Philo, who i hate right now because i want the TV to shut up... and i can't see how a TV works at all, so f**k, i must be one of the ???

not "smart" or "good" anyway...

I agree Nietzsche could be a possible candidate for AS. He was solitary, never got married and despited the general views of his era which led him to extreme isolation. He was fluent with langages (I think he spoke german, french and english), and had the see the world throught a glass attitude in his writings.

Was Darwin officially labelled as an aspie? I think I remember seing his name in the "most likely AS list", with the such of Einstein, Newton, etc. If not, I still think he had many traits of an aspie. He too was of solitary nature (but it might just be common social-phobia), and observed the world with his toughts rather than with his emotions. Biographers once found one of his journal, in which he made a pros and cons list about getting married. Among the pros was : company more enjoyable than that of a dog. Among the cons was : tremendous waste of time. Im not making this up...

Oh, and maybe Socrates was an aspie! It would be even harder to grant proofs for that, but Plato reported he could think about some subject 24 hours straight, in "thinking pose".

I despise Darwin, but yes, he may have been ASpie. I read that he was incapable of travelling unless his coach had black curtains so he couldn't see out. Very solitary. Didn't enjoy the limelight at all. Don't really know what the coach thing means. Agoraphobia? Motion sickness in the extreme? No, he sailed to the Galapago Islands, so it must have been something else...