MOZART and autism...

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is there really any historical evidence that mozart had aspergers???

I think it's just rumours. He died well before Aspergers was even known to exist!

That's kind of like saying that I couldn't have Asperger's because I was born before it was in the DSM. The symptoms of the disorder existed, just not collectively under that name.
The grouping of symptoms is what makes people theorize that a historical person may have had a disorder.

There are a number of circumstancial evidences that support Mozart might have been an Aspie. Exceptionally talented yet socially as mature as a kid in their teens, needed parental and other supervision all the time, often times messed up with what we might call "social networking" these days.

Mozart found his genius through autism.

I kind of doubt it. Mozart was known to be quite the socialite in his time. That's not to say that aspies can't be sociable, but it does seem to lessen the plausibility of a posthumous AS diagnosis quite a bit.