Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein has Asperger's?

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Frieslander
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28 Jul 2012, 10:38 am

Perhaps. See http://rarediseases.about.com/cs/asperg ... 041003.htm

I heard before that Einstein suffered depression. I also heard he did poorly on multiple choice tests because he could so often see exceptions - something I see as somewhat OCD since I have somewhat of the same problem, or at least did at times.



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28 Jul 2012, 10:59 am

I remember reading in Temple Grandin's book "Thinking in Pictures" that upon interviewing members of Einstein's family, there was a lot of incidence of autistic traits, and a lot of hints of it in his life. But maybe I remember wrong.



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28 Jul 2012, 11:06 am

Perhaps, I studied the work of einstein in dept. And yes I'm for 99.999% sure he had asperger syndrome ;-)
He's theory of relativity realy influenced my life in a positive way :)



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28 Jul 2012, 11:37 am

i've read several times that Newton was most likely aspi....... helped him 'see further' I wld say.