Did Andy Warhol have Asperger's?

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I wonder if he did, or if anyone ever speculated that he did. I say this because he was remote, gifted and had an aversion to physical contact.

i think tokoyo japan has aspergers of any city in the world

He was famous for his parties, so I'm inclined to doubt it.

It is rumored that Warhol had AS. He was well known for being socially inept. He didn't talk much, either. He was obsessive about details, too.
It's highly probable. YES he was either HFA Or AS or both.

He said he had a social disease, meaning he always went out to parties.
He was dyslexic which might be why he was so creative.

freaking i heard da brat and miriah carey have aspergers, this dudes gotta list, check it out! its pretty accurate

I heard in a couple of documentaries that he was most likely autistic.

The trouble with some of these historical figures is some of them may have had a subset of autism or aspergers but it is hard to find valid information such as their diagnosis. Most people didn't know about aspergers way back when and autism as well as autism depending on how how much that person showed signs of it, could've been percieved as anything.

I hate the idea of posthumous diagnoses.

BUT...
warhol collected people as objects. He treated people as objects. He created an influential artform based on this notion. it is not my favourite kind of art, but I admire the guy and his process more than his output or the actual content of his work.
he kept EVERYTHING -and i mean EVRYTHING. He had an apartment AND WAREHOUSES filled with everything he ever had or came across, right down to bus tickets. Currently, there is a full-time arts curator who oversees this collection of Warhol things. It is immaculately preserved and collated and a fascinating insight into the autistic mind and how many of us process detail. We absorb everything, often without the socially acceptable value judgement. it all comes in - all of it. This collection is testimony to that and i find it far more interesting than his celebrity silkscreens. FOr me, his collection of objects and things is the real Warhol art.

I know a bit about him. My bet is he was definitely autistic. without a doubt.
it would be good if we could dig him up and ask him.

Warhol loved to line up objects and then paint them, like the Campbell's soup cans. I'm surprised he seems so "social" as many of you have mentioned.

I have heard of this theory.

I like Warhol. I like the way he turns things into trash by repeating them endlessly until they just become refuse. Or maybe everything he approached was already trash? I don't know. I'm planning on writig some kind of essay about him; maybe my ideas will appear as I write. That's usually how it works.

Has anyone here ever read "From A to B and back again : the philosophy of Andy Warhol" by Andy Warhol? It's a good book.

apparently he used to phone people up and talk for hours about random stuff, without realising they were bored of what he was saying...sounds suspicious! lol

Why would that be a reason to doubt? I like going to parties, does that automatically mean my diagnosis is fake despite the fact I obviously have the symptoms?

Anyways, never heard of Andy Warhol. Who is he?

I'm sorry that happened to you. It was cruel of that person to ask if you knew "how to talk," but sadly, cruelty is all too common in high school.

I'm convinced I was born with AS and in school, I wasn't willing to raise my hand and say anything. I sat there like a statue and sometimes daydreamed. Once the nun announced to the whole class that she thought I was "in a coma" and they all burst out laughing. I was the target of a lot of sarcasm about my lack of communicative skills, but in those days, nobody, including myself, had any idea what was wrong with me, and worst of all, no one cared enough to make any effort to find out. I did some detective work when I was older and am grateful that at long last I know what was wrong.

i believe he was on the spectrum.

being on the spectrum does not preclude one from being social, or even, extremely social. I think if one is on the spectrum, and is genius (ie warholl), and one has achieved success, there is no avoiding being social.

it's obvious warhol was vastly skilled, well respected and admired, and maybe this is a clue to aspiring artists; to strive for success is to be put in to the public eye, and this constitutes being social.

one can be an accomplished artist without anybody knowing.

one cannot be a popular artist without almost everyone knowing.

to be popular is to be social. not necessarily literally, but figuratively; one would need to make themselves and their work public.

to maintain the popularity and public interest, one would need to maintain this by being available to the public.

warhol was not only a genius at art, but also a genius at being social!

being social validified his popularity and magnified his art.

check out his art; awesomenesss...

http://images.google.com/images?q=andy+ ... 4&ct=title

I doubt that he had 'Asperger's' but maybe he had Aspergers but then again maybe he was just eccentric.
Even without Aspergers he was a strange individual in his own right so why does he 'need' to have anything to substantial his existance?