Does Stephen Hawking has Aspergers?

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

yes i know because he has very bad eye contact

He does have a very monotonous voice I guess

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It's Parkinson's.

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

Tim

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.