Real life celebrities who have or probably have Aspergers

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From what I have read he was great at giving speeches but was said to be terrible in one on one conversations. I had an obsession with him a while back and read the biography written by a friend of his as well as all kinds of other things about him.

i mean did he possibly have AS?

Yes

Charles de Gaulle ???????

http://idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/118 ... bers-game/

Siobhan Magnus’ numbers game
by pinella

When asked about her 6th-place finish … you can judge for yourself.

“At least it’s an even number I really like even numbers. And 15 (she was born on March 15th) is cool because 15 is 3 fives. I have a thing about numbers. I super-analyze numbers. Fifteen is fun. Like it’s fives. You know when you are turning up or down the volume on the TV … I always put the volume on an even number or on five.”

I do the same thing...

Sounds kind of like OCD.

Is it an OCD thing? Or an Aspie thing?

I actually do have mild OCD but my dad has OCD worse and he doesn't do such a thing.

I recently read a book called Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship by Brigitte Hamann. It is a biography of Hitler's early 20s when he was an "art student" in Vienna.

After reading that book, I am very much inclined to believe that Hitler had Asperger's. Just one man's opinion here.

One other famous person, an author actually, who I suspect might be an "Aspie" is Robert Greene, the author of The 48 Laws of Power (and a few other books about strategy).

Adam Ant
Marty Balin
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tim Burton
Drew Carey
Jim Carrey
Lewis Carroll
Steve Clark
Kurt Cobain
Billy Corgan
Rivers Cuomo
Ian Curtis
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
John Frusciante
Matthew Good
Adolph Hitler
Jack Irons
Billy Joel
Stanley Kubrick
John Lennon
Abraham Lincoln
Brian May
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Robert Munsch
Dave Mustaine
Isaac Newton
Gary Numan
George Orwell
Ozzy Osbourne
Edgar Allan Poe
Joey Ramone
Trent Reznor
Axl Rose
J.K. Rowling
Rick Savage
Slash
Layne Staley
Peter Steele
Mark Twain
Eddie Van Halen
Andy Warhol
Scott Weiland

A lot of those people were mentally ill (and in Kurt Cobain's case, he had ADD). Mental illness isn't the same as Asperger's.

Yes. Who didnt have asperger's?

Comedian Adam Carolla
Among other things I've heard guests on his podcast remark on his lack of eye contact

True. What a freaking bizarro list. Looks like they guy added whoever he admired onto that list. The great "I dig them, so they must be on the spectrum like me" rationale. Cobain wasn't AS. Geesh. Since when was desperately seeking to be a famous rock star to have people love you and approve of you so you can to overcome your own self-loathing, only to find out that's not how life works, is a criterion for AS?

Ian Curtis wasn't autistic either--bipolar. Same too with Jack Irons--he's dx'd with bipolar. Adam Ant? Sorry, wrong New Wave musician--it's Gary Numan who has AS (dx'd). Ozzy and John Frusciante--both came from difficult childhoods, both have symptoms of PTSD (and with Frusciante, possible schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder too), both have a long history of self-destructive behavior. No clear evidence they are on the spectrum, but clearly both mentally ill.

Dave Mustaine--oh god lord. The guy's a pompous jerk who talks too much, but that doesn't make him an Aspie.

Slash and Axl Rose? Seriously? Because Aspies just love that L.A. heavy metal world of the late 80's, huh? All that loud music and crowds and the artificial lights of the Sunset Strip? Slash is cool, but no Aspie; Rose is just a narcissist, delusional burn-out.

I will agree that Beethoven and Isaac Newton likely had AS. But Twain? No.

Rowlings? No, she's just a compassionate mother who drew on that to write her books.

But by and large, just because someone's creative or quirky, has a different view of the world, had a nervous breakdown, or is awkward in the public eye doesn't make them an Aspie.

Kurt was Bipolar not ADD.

I think the list was just people that might have it, and for people to comment on it. Of course not everyone on that list has AS. Even if they were all suspected, what are the chances they all had it? And even then, what's the difference between "having" AS and not "having" AS? Where is the cutoff point? How bad do you have to be at social interaction before you officially have AS?