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11 Sep 2008, 8:18 pm

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10 People Who Overcame Their Disablities

1. Albert Einstein

Believed to have Asperger’s Syndrome, it is documented that the man, with whose name genius and mad scientist are associated, did not talk fluently until he was nine, failed his college entrance exam and had a hard time remembering simple things such as his phone number or how to tie his shoes. Nobel Prize winner for Physics Albert Einstein proved to be one of the most gifted minds in science and history though he was also rumored to have been dyslexic as a child which might have accounted for some of his problems with language. Einstein was known for his energy to mass-light conversion as well as the theory of relativity; great scientists including Hawking have used his scientific thoughts and theories to create much of the modern world’s wonder and new theories. Truly a gifted mind that was addled by a few kinks, he was remembered as being a genius with a few loose screws. Despite those mental flaws, the man was possibly the greatest mind to walk the earth in centuries and truly deserves to top this list.



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11 Sep 2008, 8:34 pm

Interesting, but I think that John Forbes Nash deserved a mention.


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11 Sep 2008, 9:07 pm

Rubbish. He didn't overcome AS. AS is what allowed him to think as I do.
Reprioritization of neurostructure. The disability he did, however, overcome was discalculia.
Lack of that minimal understanding is what spreads disease rumours.

Okay, new rule! Nobody without some acknowledged level of neurological understanding is allowed to speak about AS, ever!


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11 Sep 2008, 9:57 pm

10. Michel J Fox? as far as I know he hasn't overcome parkinson’s disease
How can anything from a cheap garbage website like Toptenz be a reliable
source for information. And I doubt Albert Einstein had aspergers, I think
people who keep bringing it up that its a fact, have Assburgers.



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11 Sep 2008, 10:08 pm

spudnik wrote:
10. Michel J Fox? as far as I know he hasn't overcome parkinson’s disease
How can anything from a cheap garbage website like Toptenz be a reliable
source for information. And I doubt Albert Einstein had aspergers, I think
people who keep bringing it up that its a fact, have Assburgers.


Oh, believe me, Einstein truly was an asperger. That's what the good money's on.


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11 Sep 2008, 10:29 pm

Ishmael wrote:
Rubbish. He didn't overcome AS. AS is what allowed him to think as I do.


Absolutely!! !

Not OVERCAME but got the best out of his abilities.


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11 Sep 2008, 10:35 pm

I never thought it was possible to really overcome AS, but you can always work with the best traits that you have that will in the end bring you a lot of success :)


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11 Sep 2008, 10:52 pm

Ishmael wrote:
spudnik wrote:
10. Michel J Fox? as far as I know he hasn't overcome parkinson’s disease
How can anything from a cheap garbage website like Toptenz be a reliable
source for information. And I doubt Albert Einstein had aspergers, I think
people who keep bringing it up that its a fact, have Assburgers.


Oh, believe me, Einstein truly was an asperger. That's what the good money's on.

There's no proof that he was, it seems that to be an aspie trait to apply the aspie label to every
famous person, its something I don't buy into. Without a mental evaluation, like a DSM-IV, there
is no way to determine if he was an aspie, and its a little late to find out if he was, so far its all
conjecture, it just seems stupid putting a label on people long dead.



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11 Sep 2008, 11:48 pm

spudnik, read his works and observe his life in close detail; you may be surprised.
Besides; DSM-IV is fallicy. But he does match.

I may not like the pacifist bastard, and he's not my favourite of physicists, but his thought patterns were identical to mine... Much as I hate to admit it, the closest person to myself was Einstein. The probability he was adperger is greater than the probability he was nt.


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12 Sep 2008, 12:01 am

Ishmael wrote:
spudnik, read his works and observe his life in close detail; you may be surprised.
Besides; DSM-IV is fallicy. But he does match.

I may not like the pacifist bastard, and he's not my favourite of physicists, but his thought patterns were identical to mine... Much as I hate to admit it, the closest person to myself was Einstein. The probability he was adperger is greater than the probability he was nt.

I do agree, his comes off as very aspie like, but without a dx, he's just some smart guy, who acted odd.



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12 Sep 2008, 12:24 am

Evrn so, I'll still always call him an Asperger. I may not have liked the guy, but the maths don't lie.


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12 Sep 2008, 1:55 am

Ishmael wrote:
spudnik wrote:
10. Michel J Fox? as far as I know he hasn't overcome parkinson’s disease
How can anything from a cheap garbage website like Toptenz be a reliable
source for information. And I doubt Albert Einstein had aspergers, I think
people who keep bringing it up that its a fact, have Assburgers.


Oh, believe me, Einstein truly was an asperger. That's what the good money's on.
I saw some video footage of him recently. it was balck and white and had no sound, but he didn't really seem aspie to me. Normally i can tell by the way they move, and my aspiedar doesn't go off on him, but he could be.


and PS you guys, i'm also annoyed about the word Overcame.



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