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Phagocyte
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06 Feb 2008, 4:56 pm

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None of this explains his hair.

Thirty years before the Beatles.

He were an odd duck!


That was in his later years. He dressed normally in his younger years, and was considered very charming with the ladies.


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06 Feb 2008, 6:39 pm

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NTs are jealous because Einstein has more autistic traits than normal traits :D


I am sure they don't care.

I would bet that they don't care. Hell, I don't care if he was or wasn't autistic. I'm inclined to think that he was autistic, but I don't care either way.

On the Wikipedia article about people suspected to have been autistic, it states, "One can imagine geniuses who are socially inept and yet not remotely autistic. Impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one's mission in life might combine to make such an individuals isolative and difficult."

I agree with that.



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06 Feb 2008, 6:55 pm

I don't care about these shaky retro-diagnoses.

He's a poster-boy for each and every misfit who rose above the naysayers and succeeded, or aspires to do so. Whether or not he had AS does not effect how much I idolize that great man.


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06 Feb 2008, 7:30 pm

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"Stop The Farting Umbrellas"? I've never believed that Einstein was an Aspie. A more likely candidate is Marie Curie. In her mother's biography, Eve Curie reports that as a student, Marie couldn't afford to heat her appartment, so she piled chairs on top of her bed to simulate warmth through the weight. That never made a lot of sense to me, and I'm wondering whether it wasn't simply a typical Aspie desire for the comfort of pressure. Also, Albert Einstein is quoted as complaining that on their walks together, Mme. Curie would be so concentrated on the subject under discussion that she didn't notice the birds singing in the trees.
Agreed. I think we should be using famous examples from modern times to prove our point, not this example that has obvious flaws in it. It could be true, but the fact is we don't know.