Famous people with Aspergers Syndrome

Post Reply New Topic

i always wonder why some people think that people can't get diagnosed after their death.

the amount of information about myself and my life i supplied to during my Dx, is very, very little, compared to the information available about some of these famous historic figures....

also, the amount of observation and registering done throughout my life that could show my aspie traits is poor, very poor, compared to these famous types...

last but not least, the amount of intellectual insight in my brains workings, is essential limited to a few tests like the WAIS etc., as opposed to these famous people who have enriched the world with an abundance of their brains intellectual workings and thoughts...

how come that some people think they can't be correctly evaluated and Dx'ed??

it is beyond me.

if a correct Dx only can be made while a person is alive and personally observed by the evaluator, then the criteria of autism do not lie in the aforementioned items... but must solely exist in the persons appearance, voice, gaze and movements.

and even these informations are available for many of these famous people...

from what i heard of osama bin laden i dought he had aspergers he was seen as the go between the taliban and al Qaeda good at bringing people of similer mindsets together but some what diffrent goals thats why it was such a blow to thease groups with his death.While if he had aspergers i would of seen him more towords planning and logistics

I've heard soimething about one of the Olsen twins having a form of autism

James Durbin, a recent contestant on American Idol (he came in 4th place) has Asperger's and Tourette's. He is amazingly talented, his voice is out of this world, and I think he is a musical genius. His facial tics are very visible when he is being interviewed, but when he performs, they all go away. Check out some of his performances on Youtube!

I have a few:

Daryl Hannah, an actress who was in Kill Bill
Craig Nicholls, lead singer of The Vines
Dan Akyroyd of SNL fame (and The Blues Brothers)
Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokemon
Heather Kuzmich, from America's Next Top Model

Did I just get compared to a sociopath?
anyways, Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, and that other thing I don't like to talk about) always seemed kinda aspie-ish to me

i think it is good to have people to inspire us and i like hearing about people who do well and give a good sef image.maybe if we beleive we can be presidents, prime ministers, film stars, inventors and world champions we will do our best to make the most of our lot and have happy and sucesful lives.

i make goood coin and have a happy family despite coming from a poor broken home, aspergers and very little education but maybe if i had had role moidels like presidents and scientists then i might have tried harder in school

my boys are both adhd(just found out) and the eldest hates school but loves boxing but i have paid for tutoring for him and hope he will do a pluming apprentiship as a fall back in case the boxing doiesnt wk out and i hope that the young one will go to college and end up in a suitwearing job as he is clever but lazy lol.

but i would love to give both positive role models of people who is sccessful in spit opf Adhd and do not really care if these examplrs have a formal diagwotsit or not lo0l

Morrissey... check out interviews with him on youtube.

In 1956 I went through the "autistic transition." In 1996 or thereabouts I was having dinner with Judith Bluestone, founder of the H.A.N.D.L.E. Institute, and Jim Nibblett. As we were finishing, Judith told me I needed to see a psychiatrist to be evaluated for Asperger's. Years later, I did, and was diagnosed. It explained a lot.

I've spent considerable time researching and evaluating ASD, and have some thoughts about it. One has to do with our so-called "mind blindness," or self-absorption.

First, during the transition, which happened sometime during my 3rd year, I can remember it, but it took me a long time to sort through those memories. The reason is that I was "stuck in the moment." That is, I had no linear lucidity. Everything was happening all in the same moment. So, where normal memory and experience of time is sequential, with discrete moments assigned to specific memories, my experience was that everything was happening all at the same time. Consequently, if normal experience can be likened to a video, with a series of images, my transition was like having all the images stacked on top of one another. Peel back the layers, the memories are all there, I wonder if this is the same for others.

Second, many people would probably agree that I suffer from "mind blindness." Yet, I fully appreciate that others are distinct and have minds. What, I suspect, differentiates my experience of otherness from the NT experience, is that I feel the connection to others so clearly that it takes an effort of will to separate my experience of self from my experience of otherness. An analogy I like is a term I may have read somewhere: we are the finger puppet puppets of God. In Dennis Schmidt's Wanderer series, he describes the "mind brothers" as being like individual fingers all connected through the hand. Each finger is separate and distinct--an "individual"--yet they are all connected and experience that connection. To me, others feel more like extensions of myself, than like others. Consequently, I am inclined to pay attention to "others" about as much as I would pay attention to a toe, finger or hair on my head. Setting aside the metaphysical connotations or implications, what if this is true? What if the reason why so many of us are perceived as being "mind blind" is because we experience our connectedness to others at a profound level?

How about Bill Gates? I've heard he might be on the Spectrum.

And the same of Mark Twain. Surprised I haven't seen his name yet....