famous people with aspergers?

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Craig Nicholls, the lead singer of a very popular Australian band called "The Vines".
He is very gifted musically and creatively.. He also composes his own music/songs.

He admits to having had problems with touring because of Asperger's.. since touring is very stressful for someone who has difficulty with change and also there's the stress of having to deal with the media, fans, etc.. I would think touring constantly with all that added stress of media, etc.. would be difficult for anyone even without having Asperger's...

Here are some links telling more about Craig and why he ended up publically admitting that he has Asperger's.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/200 ... ines_x.htm

http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1493980 ... _the.jhtml

I think this educated a lot more people about Asperger's who may never have even heard of it. Also, I remember reading something about the band staying together, but that they just wouldn't tour very much at all...

I just realized that Craig Nicholls was the subject of a thread here on WP pretty recently:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt56104.html

I imagine his name came up here alot when it all first hit the news too.. I wasn't here then.. (I wish I could get the search feature to work for me... )

Tell me about it. It seems like almost every female here is infatuated with him!(I say female because it seems like 14-54 it is the same appeal) I wish I knew what the special attraction was about.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Though on the other hand he was raised by a very strange mother by whom he wasn't allowed to go outside because according to her words, such an ugly child was he that his peers would be afraid of him. Such a way of upbringing could shape his personality. He was oversensitive to loud noises, they caused migraine in him every time - was it a sensory issue common in AS?

Speaking of famous writers suspected of AS, Emily Dickinson doesn't seem a candidate. She seemed to be relatively normal child and teen in comparison with her adult age which calls the suspicions in question. AS shouldn't be treated as a bag into which all those whose personality is perceived far from the norm are being put.

I wish I knew this too I even had to google his name to check him because the only thing about him I had known before was that such a person exists. Maybe females like his youthful innocent looks. Big deal Intelligent and morose Lovecraft was way cooler than a Nicholls

Yeah, I don't even understand about lovecraft.

General George S. Patton. Maybe...

Well, I wouldn't doubt it, but so far it isn't. They do appear very similar.

I've always wondered about James May, the presenter on Top Gear motor show/the programme about wine co-presented with Oz Clark.

He has little fashion sense, likes to live alone, is obsessional about detail, has a quirky sense of humour, always has to do things the same way, collects stuff (watches), is an expert in car facts, seems to be very "still" in his body language compared to the others...hmm...

Syd Barret may have had it too. As young, he was too scared to set foot off on street. He spent his last years locked up in Cambridge. He was suspect of bipolar disorder but died without diagnosis. Maybe he was aspie or HFA.

Roger Bannister has some traits of AS.

I believe I read that Dan Ackroyd says he is, and that he has Tourettes.

Robert Crumb maybe

I heard Andy Warhol showed some symptoms of AS, don't know if it's true though...

Salad Fingers!

1. He is preoccupied with tactile sensations; rusty metal, nettles, and grubby taps.
2. He befriends finger puppets. (Episode 2)
3. He is unable to recognize when his companion is bored. . .or dead. (Episodes 3 and 7)
4. He doesn't like being stared at or touched. (Episode 5)
5. His speech is unnecessarily pedantic.
6. He becomes frightened at the sound of the radio and hides in his 'safety cabinet'. (Episode

I think a diagnosis is in order.

Back on subject: Dan Ackroyd is fairly outspoken about having AS. Einstein, Newton, and especially Dickinson, aren't fair game.

This subject drives me nuts! I disagree with most of these (they had personalities) and don't know anything about the rest. If someone says he or she is autistic, I'm not going to argue about that though.

I think Glenn Gould was said to be autistic. When I was reading biographies I wondered about Greta Garbo and Paul Cezanne. Definitely no to Bill Gates, Einstein, Andy Warhol, Walt Disney . . .

I do a lot of thinking/reading on personality theory, and I'm pretty sure people confuse personality and disability all the time.

This is the first thread i started and this many people have spoken on it
never.. on all the forums i have been on has this many people or just messages apeared in it.

The reason i started the question was to see who was a confirmed aspie so that i could just sort of see others and see how they were getting on with their life.
I was told that einstein and leanardo da vinci were confirmed aspies but it confuses me how people would confirm people as having a condition like that when it is not something that was not known back then...

Bill Gates has aspergers that is on his IMDB profile so he is confirmed to have it.
I was told before hand that he had it and i am sure the person hadn't been on his imdb profile so i guess it is a legitimate claim and he must have said it.