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09 Nov 2012, 5:11 pm

Plodder wrote:
^ Agree with Fnord.

Why anyone would deliberately set out to be famous beats me.

People writing about your personal life in newspapers. People criticising everything you do. People following you around and taking your photograph without your permission. People digging up your past and publishing embarrassing facts about you. People believing lies and rumours about you. Fake people pretending to be your friends. People trying to kidnap you.

No thanks.

*shudder*

If fame comes as a side effect of some great achievement, I suppose you just have to put up with it.


I agree. Also you always find the really famous people don't like having their picture taken yet the z-list wannabees always have a smarmy grin when the pap are around them. They must hate going a day without press attention. Could you imagine that as a worry? They look out their window and the street is empty. No-one loves them anymore. That's easily solved, just go to the opening of something, like a packet of crisps all dressed lacking clothes with nothing left to the imagination.


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09 Nov 2012, 6:34 pm

League_Girl wrote:
JellyCat wrote:
There's a pretty well established actress with Aspergers, I can't remember her name though. She starred in a movie where her legs turned into a tail, on contact with water.



Daryl Hannah.


She's a porn star and political activist now



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10 Nov 2012, 9:22 am

There has also been rampant speculation about Bill Gates having AS.


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10 Nov 2012, 9:28 am

Anyone can have As. Just do your homework and do it properly. Anyone can also have AS; it doesn't selectively choose which people to affect. Being a celebrity or otherwise famous doesn't grant immunity from ASDs.



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10 Nov 2012, 9:39 am

[Moved from General Autism Discussion to Random Discussion]


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10 Nov 2012, 3:33 pm

well if you ask people with an AS diagnosis this gets pretty difficult. Still there are some.

If you talk about historic persons with AS then how would you prove that before the 80s. Not really possible.

But there are tons of people on spectrum that are famous, if you think about analytical properties of aspies and average to above average IQ and 1% then there must be even a lot of famous aspies.

And why not? I mean if you're aspie you're special. And to be something special is a good premise to become famous.