Celebrities diagnosed with AS?

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Hello everyone


My question is simple really. Are there any Celebrities within the television and film sector that have officially been diagnosed with AS? I see all these lists with names like Keanu Reeves on them but what names go beyond speculation? This was simply my thought of the moment, sorry if this has been asked before. I will be interested in hearing the responses.

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Ruraji

Steven Spielberg, Heather Kuzmich, Satoshi Tajiri, Courtney Love and Darryl Hannah are all diagnosed with AS or HFA. I also think Keannu Reeves, Michael Palin and Woody Allen are diagnosed.

there's no proof that some of those people are aspies. (Steven Spielberg for instance)

Dan Akroyd is diagnosed.

Kris

According to both the article about AS on the norwegian version of Wikipedia, and this article (http://www.smh.com.au/news/Health/A-syn ... 48555.html), Spielberg is an aspie.

Courtney love and Darryl Hannah were both diagnosed as HFAs when they were children, but would probably be diagnosed with AS today.

According to this article (http://www.gamer20.com/features/182/2/), as well as Wikipedia, Tajiri is an aspie.

If you google a little, I'm sure you'll also find proof that Reeves, Palin and Allen are aspies. I know it's written somewhere.

I know that Gary Numan, who is a One Hit Wonder here in the USA, is diagnosed with Asperger's. The only other person I can of think that is offically diagnosed is Craig Nicholls, the lead singer for The Vines, a rock band from Australia. Overall, there is no major celebrity, to go public with thier diagnosis.

I have been told that adult film star, Jana Cova is diagnosed with Asperger's but I am not certain if this is true or just made up. By the way, who is Heather Zuzmich ?

That's a good question.

Heather is the girl from "America's Next Top Model "

Both of these people where dx'd as "mildly autistic" at a very young age, which here in the US at the time meant just that - mildly autistic. Such a dx in the US at the time was usually for children exhibiting verbal delays in addition to socialization issues, which is contrary to the diagnostic criteria for AS. There was no such thing as HFA then (both of these women are in their 40's now). I'm familiar with this because my brother, who's now 39, was examed for the diagnosis of "mildly autistic" back in the early 70's and they said he wasn't because he had no verbal delays. He is, however, very Aspie-like, and was even then (which is why he was sent to a diagnostician) although he has not ben dx'd with AS as I have.

I doubt either Love or Hannah would be dx'd as AS now. Love is clearly a borderline personality disorder (if not a full-blown narcissistic personality), but that aside, she exhibits none of the AS-specific traits, that I know of at least. I've read quite a lot that's been published about her childhood and her relationship with Cobain, and there was nothing in all of that that stood out to me as specifically Aspie-like. Hannah strikes me as very HFA-ish, but not at all AS. I always found her mildly annoying in that way I often find HFA people (no offense - I admit it's me, not them).


I know Spielberg likely has a professional dx, but I personally find that suspect. The man got the dx when AS was being touted as some kind of "genius syndrome" a few years back, where every genius in history was suddenly a suspected Aspie, and the whole thing strikes me as him trying to get himself into in the "Aspie genius club." Plus he's a Hollywood heavyweight - peope like that literally buy doctors to tell them what they want to hear. I'm not just being cynical. Dr Drew, that Hollywood addiction specialist, says the same things - this is why people int hat industry have a hard time getting proper pshyciatric help when they need it.