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Mainichi
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08 Oct 2009, 10:46 pm

Satoshi Tajiri the creator of Pokemon and founder of Game Freak has Aspergers's . Described by Nintendo officials as exceedingly creative but "reclusive" and "eccentric".

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11 Oct 2009, 8:36 am

Judging by his fiction I could believe that Franz Kafka had AS. His three novels, "The Trial", "The Castle" and "America" all seem to revolve around central characters struggling to cope in a world filled with rules and customs that are incomprehensible to them - Josef K's arrest for a crime he doesn't know he's committed, and which no-one will explain to him because they seem to think he should just know - being the perfect example.

Another aspie candidate I've seen nominated before is Andy Warhol, which would also seem quite plausible to me judging by his total immersion in his work, and his lack of desire to engage with people outside of his work. One of the songs written about him by Lou Reed and John Cale, "Faces and Names" has the couplet

"Faces and names, I wish they were the same
Faces and names only cause problems for me"

which would seem to me to be a very aspie outlook on life.

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11 Oct 2009, 8:45 am

Usually left of these lists but Stanley Kubrick must be a contender.

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11 Oct 2009, 8:53 am

Dminor wrote:

I didnt see a thread about this and i thought it would be fun

Ill start Gary Numan!

Just recently read an interview where he says that he was diagnosed with aspergers late in life. Supposedly throughout his life a lot of people thought he was a self absorbed a**hole because. (might be some truth in that)

Heres a quote

"Polite conversation has never been one of my strong points. Just recently I actually found out that I'd got a mild form of Asperger's syndrome which basically means I have trouble interacting with people. For years, I couldn't understand why people thought I was arrogant, but now it all makes more sense."

He was a very weird character and I thought he was on drugs

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11 Oct 2009, 9:59 am

From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:

Dopey because he is nonverbal and lacks common sense

Doc because he is a 'professor' but is echolalic and the other dwarfs put words in his mouth.

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12 Oct 2009, 4:23 am

Heather Kuzmich from season 9 of america's next top model

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12 Oct 2009, 5:06 am

Daniel is his name.

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15 Oct 2009, 6:42 pm

Mr. Thomas Jefferson.

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16 Oct 2009, 1:37 am

Woody Allen (apparently)

Several US Presidents:

I think I read that Lincoln had a break down just prior to being elected

Although he was probably best qualified to write the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin not the one chosen to do so, out of concern that he might embed a 'joke' in the document :!:

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16 Oct 2009, 6:34 pm

My roommate recently informed me that Eddie Vedder may have AS (she saw an interview in which it was strongly implied).

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16 Oct 2009, 8:44 pm

kingtut3 wrote:

There is also evidence that Hans Asperger had Asperger's syndrome.

Would he have than referred to it in conversation as "My syndrome"?

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16 Oct 2009, 8:51 pm

Locustman wrote:

Yes! I've read The Trial. Agreed fully.

One of my favorite people was one of us: Nikola Tesla.

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17 Oct 2009, 5:55 am

I'm reading Steve Wozniak's (apple cofounder) autobiography, "IWoz" and I swear... this guy reminds me so much of me and to a lesser extent my dad (they don't call it the "engineer's disease" for nothing although I really wish they'd drop the d-word) that he's got to have it. If anyone's seen him on the few episodes of Kathy Griffin that he was on, I picked up on it there too but reading about his early years.

Yeah. Makes sense.

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17 Oct 2009, 6:04 am

-9 wrote:

kingtut3 wrote:

There is also evidence that Hans Asperger had Asperger's syndrome.

Would he have than referred to it in conversation as "My syndrome"?

no. it was lorna wing who coined the label "asperger's syndrome" ...

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17 Oct 2009, 7:06 am

mc frontalot and David Byrne have asperger's syndrome mc frontalot wrote a song about it

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17 Oct 2009, 7:32 am

Ruchard wrote:

mc frontalot and David Byrne have asperger's syndrome mc frontalot wrote a song about it

David Byrne..................YES :!:

Loved his songs

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