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25 Nov 2008, 3:09 pm

I read about about his life before I knew about AS, and now that I think about it, I'd dare to say he had Asperger:

* extremely shy, in fact had to create this outrageous personna
*laughed out of nothing
* intense dislike of being touched
obssesed with routine:
* for months his daily routine was: breakfast, paint 'til eating time, eat, swim a little, go back to paint, go to sleep.
WTF
* had no sense of value of money. Had no idea how much things cost, her wife had to put some $ in his pocket when he went out.
* bought a car but didn't know how to drive.
* "...listo como una flecha. Pero no sabía nada de nada, Dalí, nada de nada, de nada sabía nada. Ahora, de pintura, lo sabía todo."
(Smart as an arrow. Didn't know a thing about anything, nothing, of nothing he knew nothing. Now, about painting, he knew it all)
* "Helpless when it came to simple things like navigating from the train station to the home he'd lived in for decades on his own -- he'd always need someone along to guide him"


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25 Nov 2008, 3:14 pm

dali was s**t



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25 Nov 2008, 4:05 pm

I value surrealistic artists :twisted:



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25 Nov 2008, 4:09 pm

You make an interesting argument, computerlove.



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25 Nov 2008, 5:22 pm

saintetienne wrote:
dali was sh**


:lol: Ironic then that your current avatar reminds me (and I'm sure other readers of the thread) of one of Dali's most famous paintings...


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25 Nov 2008, 5:25 pm

I agree with your propositon :D

I think lots of creative geniuses were aspergers. :D



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25 Nov 2008, 5:34 pm

He was one of the few people I could relate to when I was a teenager. I think it's quite credible that he had AS.



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25 Nov 2008, 6:34 pm

Dali was a little beyond aspie. He actually thought aliens communicated to him through his mustache which acted as an antenna. He had been known to show up to events with his car full of cabbages (literally full with cabbages) for no reason. I am a space cadet somewhat but god damn!


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25 Nov 2008, 6:41 pm

dali was an attention whore.



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25 Nov 2008, 7:29 pm

NotRealBrianWilson wrote:
saintetienne wrote:
dali was sh**


:lol: Ironic then that your current avatar reminds me (and I'm sure other readers of the thread) of one of Dali's most famous paintings...

damn, beat me to it =P

St Etienne (nice band btw), I think it was mostly this different "personnae" that he created for the media, the one that made extravagant parties (very few and far in between) and most of the time he just went to another room to be quiet, or if he did attend them he just listened.


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25 Nov 2008, 10:20 pm

What's fascinating to me about Dali and some of his paintings is his viewpoint that what we see in the real world may have an alternate interpretation. His "Slave Market with Disappearing Bust of Voltaire" was a fascinating statement about how the world is perhaps not what you think. I do a lot of painting myself using this point of view and find it makes the world more interesting and puzzling and insecure.



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25 Nov 2008, 10:35 pm

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I had a poster of The Persistence of Memory on my wall for years, I have always loved Dali's paintings



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26 Nov 2008, 10:29 am

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I had a poster of The Persistence of Memory on my wall for years, I have always loved Dali's paintings


That painting was in the art room when I was in elementary school.

It scared the s**t out of me back then.


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26 Nov 2008, 4:54 pm

computerlove wrote:
I read about about his life before I knew about AS, and now that I think about it, I'd dare to say he had Asperger:

* extremely shy, in fact had to create this outrageous personna
*laughed out of nothing
* intense dislike of being touched
obssesed with routine:
* for months his daily routine was: breakfast, paint 'til eating time, eat, swim a little, go back to paint, go to sleep.
WTF
* had no sense of value of money. Had no idea how much things cost, her wife had to put some $ in his pocket when he went out.
* bought a car but didn't know how to drive.
* "...listo como una flecha. Pero no sabía nada de nada, Dalí, nada de nada, de nada sabía nada. Ahora, de pintura, lo sabía todo."
(Smart as an arrow. Didn't know a thing about anything, nothing, of nothing he knew nothing. Now, about painting, he knew it all)
* "Helpless when it came to simple things like navigating from the train station to the home he'd lived in for decades on his own -- he'd always need someone along to guide him"


Furthermore, Dali's assistants were required to wear all black clothing, lest he not recognise them if they wore differant things.


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26 Nov 2008, 8:49 pm

Interesting Fogman, to be honest I've never read anything about his helpers, I only know that he had one that made all the backgrounds.


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27 Nov 2008, 3:57 pm

Fogman wrote:
Furthermore, Dali's assistants were required to wear all black clothing, lest he not recognise them if they wore differant things.


I can relate to that.

Frankly I've never thought of Dali as having AS, but then again I haven't really read/watched anything about him for years.

Though I'm still tempted to still simply regard him, with all due respect, as a Space Cadet, there seems to be plenty of evidence that he could indeed have had AS.


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