Are there any autistic stand up comedians?

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ALADDIN_1978
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17 Nov 2012, 5:11 pm

Don Biswas has ASD

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24 Nov 2012, 11:50 am

There are ton's of aspies in entertainment there is a huge myth that somehow they don't exist but they do.

Aspies can do anything if it's there special interest, entertainment arts, are just as predictable as anything else, the thing is, it's bloody rare that most aspies would spend the thousands of hours necessary to be a entertainer if it weren't there special interest.

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08 Feb 2019, 6:38 pm

Hannah Gadsby... She was diagnosed about three or four years ago.. She has a comedy special, "Nanette", on Netflix... I love her! She also has a youtube channel called "Renaissance Woman" where she talks about Renaissance art, as art history is her special interest. ))...

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08 Feb 2019, 7:05 pm

SweetOnSylvia wrote:

))...

I was going to mention her

She's really good

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13 Feb 2019, 7:13 pm

There was an episode of "True Life" called "I Have Autism" and one of the people they focused on was Elijah, a young man with Asperger's.

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24 Feb 2019, 9:51 am

I don't know any but I guess it could happen despite whatever idiosyncratic sense of humor that autistic people have

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24 Feb 2019, 1:28 pm

MC1729 wrote:

There was an episode of "True Life" called "I Have Autism" and one of the people they focused on was Elijah, a young man with Asperger's.

I should have clarified my earlier post- Elijah was a stand-up comedian and part of his routine was jokes about his autism. Also, Jim Jefferies has a bit about being diagnosed as on the spectrum.

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