Does Stephen Hawking has Aspergers?

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05 May 2007, 3:07 pm

I've been thinking of that for a long time.



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05 May 2007, 3:12 pm

yes i know because he has very bad eye contact



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05 May 2007, 3:13 pm

He does have a very monotonous voice I guess :lol:

I think due to his circumstances its alot harder to work out, being unable to move anything other than your eyelid can't be too helpful when it comes to socialising etc.



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05 May 2007, 3:13 pm

that might be a purely physical problem, though. i mean, he can't move at all.



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05 May 2007, 3:20 pm

Judging from the things he's said, Stephen Hawking does not appear Aspie-like at all to me. The mathematician he's been working with a lot, Roger Penrose, does display Aspie traits in his writings.


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05 May 2007, 3:38 pm

It's hard to tell with a lot of these mathematics professors.
I attended a course of Roger Penrose ( undergraduate; as low as he taught), i went to one lecture and did not bother with the rest. The better mathematicians, the worse they teach ( some exceptions).
But he was bad. Cannot bring himself down to such a level.

It is hard to say whether he was autistic ( AS was not invented when i was studying).
In retrospective, there were many professors i knew which were possibly aspie.
But it is hard to say, they live in their own world of ivory towers and nearly all with eccentricities.



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05 May 2007, 3:47 pm

think he has some sort of debilitating condtion that worsens over your life....

he didnt used to be like that...

he was an avid coxman, if i recall.

but im sure he could have been strange back then... i just seem to remember that he was "normal" at some earlier point


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05 May 2007, 3:52 pm

It's Parkinson's.


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05 May 2007, 3:54 pm

I heard he had Lou Gehrig's disease, but that's about it.

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05 May 2007, 4:06 pm

RadiationHazard wrote:
It's Parkinson's.


ah well that totally accounts for the "eye contact" thing...

my meme had parkinson's... she'd look pretty catatonic at times... changed a lot about her interactions. it really was hard to recognize the woman i had known for so long, once it started getting bad.


yeah i dont think SH is AS... i do remember him being fairly popular and such too... so doesnt sound like AS... but who knows for sure


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05 May 2007, 4:10 pm

There was a drama/documentery made by the BBC on Hawking a couple of years ago, some scenes of his early life suggested he was quite seperate from his peers, but didn't really delve any deeper.

Three years ago I had the pleasure of attending a talk he conducted at Cambridge, it was an experience not to be forgotten.


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05 May 2007, 4:58 pm

hehe maybe i just remember thinking i'd like to hang out with him lol

been a long time since i read any biographical stuff on him


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05 May 2007, 5:06 pm

DingoDv wrote:
He does have a very monotonous voice I guess :lol:
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That's because he needs a coumputer thingy to speak for him.



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05 May 2007, 6:14 pm

Monotone voice. Very little body language. Has an obsession (science).



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05 May 2007, 6:39 pm

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That's because he needs a coumputer thingy to speak for him.

Sorry, with that little smiley face at the end I was attempting sarcasm



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05 May 2007, 6:45 pm

Sedaka wrote:
RadiationHazard wrote:
It's Parkinson's.


ah well that totally accounts for the "eye contact" thing...

my meme had parkinson's... she'd look pretty catatonic at times... changed a lot about her interactions. it really was hard to recognize the woman i had known for so long, once it started getting bad.


yeah i dont think SH is AS... i do remember him being fairly popular and such too... so doesnt sound like AS... but who knows for sure


I think the symptoms of low dopamine pretty well mimic certain subgroups and subtypes of AS. I and at least a few other people I know have that certain wide-eyed neurologically strained sort of look and its amazing too how similar we are in terms of who we are inwardly. I think I do lack dopamine and its something I've noticed from the standpoint that psychostimulants seem to help me out a lot.