If seeing the Vines is believing (Frontman has Asperger's)

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That's a world-class meltdown...

I've never had anything that severe... I've screamed at my gf and then burst into tears straight after. I'd cleaned out her car and she took offense to it because she felt I was going through her things, felt she was a grub and that it reminded her of how her father never let her have privacy... I hadn't thought of it before but I think it really was a meltdown - not anything to this scale, but it was a highly emotional situation.

Afterwards she went back to her car after work and realised what a good job I'd done and thanked me for it. It was still pretty scary for her, though.

It was actually Tony Attwood who diagnosed Craig Nicholls.

I'm going through a semi-obsession with The Vines. I've been watching all Craig's interviews on Youtube, listening to their music.

Here's that fantastic song sans meltdown:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s_nuSjebas[/youtube]


Here's an interview ... Craig Nicholls has a reputation for his meltdowns as dicussed in this interview. He makes reference to Tony Attwood, saying he now has his 'Doctor's letter'.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyRYjqD5aCo[/youtube]

Here he is just being silly!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjE7wKZprF8&feature=related[/youtube]

I'm 35, but am not too old to have a crush on this gorgeous rockstar!

I love Craig!! !! !!

Helen

God, he reminds me so much of me in his mannerisms and the way he interviews and avoids the speaker and camera with that flitting eye contact and strange accent and stuff... There really is something about him though, he's really endearing. This is actually brilliant for me; my boyfriend (a musician) found out Craig had AS and brought it up with me last week, and I think it's kinda helped him understand me better for it, and that really I'm not the odd one out, that it is pretty common really, and that (despite my being anything but a geek or mathsy) the stereotype really is completely false. It's given him someone else he can relate me to, and it's a person he's really loved for a long while too. We had a really good long discussion and I think it's really helped him to have someone else he can relate me and my quirks to in a context other than 'bill gates has it'... a cool person rather than a successful nerd. So I'm very happy with this. I've watched interviews of him for the last few hours; I'm just so struck on how much like me he is in the way he speaks and acts and moves, it's bizarre... I haven't ever come across it before. What a dude!!

Haha, spose you could say my partner's my first rock star crush ever... just so happened to be the man of my dreams too and that he fell in love with me, how's that for the gods of good fortune smiling down eh?!

Seriously though, I think having someone like Craig out as Asperger's (sounds like we're talking about homosexuality!) can only be a positive thing. Trying to explain it and only have famous people to relate it to like bill gates and various artists from centuries ago doesn't make it very relateable or understandable, so having someone a bit more cool and in the music industry makes things easier for people like me who don't do the maths thing well but instead inherit the prodigious creative genes.

haha originally when I found out he´s an Aspie I get obsessed with his music too .. guess it makes us feel a little better about ourselves seeing that were not alone and ..well we actually ROCK! ..lol

The fact that Craig has AS does not make me like the Vines any more that I do (they're pretty good), but their performance of "Outtathaway!" on Jools Holland is probably one the ten best live performances of all time.

It's a bit of a shame that ever since he was diagnosed, I haven't seen an article or review that doesn't mention AS.

Is that a meltdown? (I can't tell; I'm not being sarcastic.) I'm not acquainted with the band but that performance reminds me of Kurt Cobain. . .

Whoops! My daughter made a post while logged in as me therefore deleted.

i looked up the vines on youtube...


Those meltdowns among other things give there shows that little extra punch that music seems to be missing now days!

^^
*dances to the vines*