Musicians who have (or may have?) Asperger's Syndrome.

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Yes, you are right. Tony Attwood is his therapist, and did do the intitial diagnosis.
If you you are interesting in discussing Craig and The Vines more, feel free to pm me.

Okay.

Holy crap I can't believe there were 2 people before me who thought Richard D. James aka Aphex twin could possibly have AS. I've pondered it myself because of really how odd his music is and how weird the interviews he gives are. We'll probably never know though. We all know that Craig Nicholls and Gary Numan have it, but what about all the musicians that don't talk about it because they feel it's not important? Also, I think it's very possible that asperger's is what caused Syd Barrett to recluse.

i thought that David Byrne from the Talking Heads had it?!

I believe he was diagnosed with Asperger's sometime in the mid-nineties. Ironic that his previous band before Talking Heads was called The Autistics...

I am almost certain that Frank Zappa had AS or HFA.

holy s***
i didn't know that.

he probably knew that he was on the spectrum though.

Hmmn..

I get this feeling with Devin Townsend.. I haven't met one person IRL that understands his lyrics.. Or even wants to understand them. Meanwhile I've memorised every single word he ever sung, I think he is a genious.

I love him too. Do you have all his SYL stuff too?

I think his songs like Life and Deep Peace and Baby Song make sense. Others aren't meant to. I agree with the ASD assumption about him.

I am kicking myself for not getting the version of Synchestra with the live DVD. I just had to impulse buy the regular at Borders.

There's a video about it [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtoGW0atis"]here[/url], if you're interested.

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Craig Nicholls is his name and he's not a kid he's 29 years old

I thought that too two days..., but I read two autobiographics, and he was raised strict catholic (he was born 1943) and so on so no wonder he got so controll oriented, than that accident when he went too tank c (prison), he could there too get paranoic... than there was the 60 and the riots...
So i think his aspie traits were more of an parental factor and social than "brainy"
And bout his sexual life, yeah... he had two wymen but he was always that kind of man who sought true love..., no one-night stand and "plastic people" kind of love.
Maybe a OCD too a degree...
But it would be nice if he had *sigh*.... *dreamy*

Or we could define a new thing the zappa syndrom ---> ----> -----> ---->

James Maynard Keenan

He shows many aspie traits and music he makes has a very structured, ordered sound most of the time.

YEah, maynards definately got it. No way a neurotypical could make such awesome music

Karl Sanders of Nile definetly has it. His lyrics are either about Egyptology, H.P. Lovecraft or both.
Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage as well. I have a DVD with them and his behaviour on stage is pretty eccentric.
I'm sure John Frusciante has it too.

Oh yeah! The "World Ablaze" DVD. I ahve it as well.
I don't think he has AS, because it seems like he is doing all that stuff just to seem obnoxious(to cite Justin).
But the silly-speaking inbetween which he shares with Devin Townsend might indacte that he/they have AS.

Sometimes its hard to judge, because there are so many f****d up Neruotypicals out there as well