Famous Black People with/suspected to have Asperger's

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14 Jan 2009, 10:38 pm

Wondering if anyone knows of anyone ?



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14 Jan 2009, 10:52 pm

There's Stephen Wiltshire, the human camera. (WP won't let me post a video link)



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15 Jan 2009, 11:29 pm

I've seen some African American (or maybe African UK) faces on avatars here.



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16 Jan 2009, 9:35 pm

STEVE URKEL



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16 Jan 2009, 9:43 pm

Maybe the governor of NY state (not sure)? He has a very shrewd and quirky sense of humor.

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Another fascinating figure is Benjamin Banneker, a clock maker and self taught astronomer from the 1800s... he was a genius and died a recluse.

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17 Jan 2009, 2:43 pm

African Aspies topic

I read an interesting book Asperger's and Self-Esteem and there was a biography on an African American actor named Paul Robeson. he seemed to fit many of the characteristics of Asperger's, but he lived and died long before Asperger's became generally known.

In this book author Norm Ledgin has researched some more famous artists/scientists and found many of them with definite Aspie traits. the book was written for diagnosed Aspies who may be feeling upset after learning their diagnoses.


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17 Jan 2009, 5:39 pm

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14 Jul 2009, 7:09 am

If I had to guess I'd say Miles Davis. He was well known to be eccentric and not to engage in typical social interaction. Toward the latter half of his career he did all his concerts with his back to the audience.



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14 Jul 2009, 9:47 am

I'm an African American with AS. The only other black person I know who's on the spectrum is Stephen Wiltshire. There should be more black autistics noted, famous or not so.



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17 Jul 2009, 7:41 pm

Genius =/= Autistic



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17 Jul 2009, 10:41 pm

i heard some1 say michael jackson had it



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18 Jul 2009, 1:25 am

I disagree. Michael Jackson was weird but he was not an aspie. You could be right with Miles Davis though.

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18 Jul 2009, 2:09 am

Forgot this dude, but he was i the 1800s and early 1900s and did a bunch of scientific work. IIRC it was engineering''

EDIT: FOUND IT. thank you, friend!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lincoln_Hawkins This dude.


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18 Jul 2009, 11:04 pm

kxmode wrote:
Wesley Willis


I thought he had schizophrenia.

Yupa wrote:
STEVE URKEL


As far as fictional characters go, one that really springs to mind is the character Harry Noble from *Batteries Not Included. He's very shy guy, the only time he ever speaks is with television commercial quotes.


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19 Jul 2009, 7:51 am

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There should be more black autistics noted, famous or not so.


There should be more autistics noted whether they are black white asian or zoogoid... (I made the last one up...). We need more famous people to raise awareness that we are human too and not robots to be mistreated!


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19 Jul 2009, 8:12 am

Lode wrote:
Genius =/= Autistic

A casual look around Wrong Planet further reinforces that statement... :wink:


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