Is Bjork Aspie?

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the danish books know the truth... so don't rely on icelandic poets...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y

but she has a great sense of detail...

I don't like to conjecture about whether someone has an ASD or not, but, I did see something last night that reminded me so much of AS I have to mention it. PBS is running documentaries about National Parks in the US and, last night, there was a two hour episode on the Western United States, Yosemite and Yellowstone, and some places in Alaska. They bioed John Muir, describing his relationship with Yosemite and I couldn't help recognize some strong Aspie traits. It was almost like he became one with nature and the parks, he was talking to his surroundings, boulders and waterfalls, he was merging with the wilderness and totally passionate and dedicated to perserving it and learning about it. That made me think of Aspies

I like Bjork and was disappointed when they didn't pick her for the lead role in Smilla's Sense of Snow. The book the movie was based on is by Danish writer Peter Hoeg and the protagonist is a tiny, intense,solitary Icelandic woman with Inuit ancestry. Great Book!

I was totally mesmerized by Bjork when I first saw her in a Sugarcubes videotape that featured various scenes of her and other members of the group talking....This was in 1991...the year I joined my first band...and my bass player wanted us to be more like the Sugarcubes...

I am a huge fan of the Sugarcubes and anxiously awaited her first album...and I loved finding weird rare Bjork recordings and this and that....But I have not really followed her in a few years...

My old band used to cover "Motorcrash"....and it was really among the most enjoyable moments of performing with them....

Annnyway....One of the things I like about her and/or the Sugarcubes...are the really surreal lyrics...

I think that she is an original and an eccentric...but no telling if she deals with the sensory and TOM and social problems that most aspies have to contend with...Once can certainly be eccentric and unusual and not be an aspie.

I talk funny, and once or twice, people have told me I reminded them of her in the way that I talk...and maybe I talk the way I do because I am on the spectrum...and am also a vocalist.....Or maybe just because I am a vocalist....and maybe she talks the way she does because English is not her first language...or maybe she also "talk-sings"..because she is a vocalist.

No telling...

To be honest, I don't think she comes across as the type of person that would change her persona to live up to certain people's expectations. Just my thoughts.

I'll ask my specialist next time i see her

Another interesting interview

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlzixwWyrwU&feature=related[/youtube]

I think Bjork is on the spectrum; she hears music in everything, even in the sound of a pencil dropping or a train running along its tracks, as demonstrated by her Selma Songs soundtrack for Dancer in the Dark. I believe that this alone demonstrates an unusual level of sensory sensitivity and a deep connection to objects. I've noticed that, sometimes when being interviewed, she is in her own little world and has a faraway look in her eye, seemingly unaware that she is in a social situation as she talks endlessly about her fantasy world, as evidenced by the following interview. Her hair is even askew, but she doesn't seem to notice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d4rdat3HdA

She also has an unusually strong gift for avant-garde composition. She thinks inductively (a sign of the bottom-up processing spectrum people are so good at) about her art: in other words, art for art's sake, divorced entirely from social context and the usual musical categories that come along with social expectations. This is the evidence that has led me to conclude that Bjork is a musical savant and therefore autistic (I don't believe that savant syndrome can be divorced from autism no matter what the current authorities on autism say).

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIegDXH5Ky0[/youtube]

All of these videos. I'd say she is.

"In her teens, Björk was influenced by punk; at 14 she formed the all-girl punk band Spit and Snot"

Gawd

impoosible to say without tests so I wont, not everyone people think have aspergers has it, problyy its rarely dead on

What tests are you referring to?

the whole sresie of phsych and medical ones that i went through

Oh, and how could I forget to mention that swan dress and the egg purse?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnEJUio2DiE

By the way, I've tried to use the YouTube embed code, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

Use Youtube option above writing place. It should help you

bingo. her persona is affected and cute but you don't get affected without calculation. I think she's a typical NT artistic type...

she attacked a female reporter and there is one video that shows the whole event where after she had asked the reporter to leave them alone, the reporter walked up to her *child*, who is in a stroller, and stuck the microphone in the kid's face and said 'welcome to bangkok' (or wherever they were)...that was just the mama bear in her that came out after being fed up with this reporter. people shouldn't mess with people's kids like that.