Did Any Of You Have Special Role Models?

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I loved Freddie Mercury (hence the avatar ) Queen/Freddie was one of my obsessions for a while. I just loved how he could be so charismatic and full of life and I wished I could've been that way. Now, I still like their music, but I'm definately not obsessed. I've moved on to bigger and better obsessions...with neurology.

Henry David Thoreau is my lifestyle model. David Foster Wallace is my writing model.

-Jacques Mayol
-Herodotus of Halicarnassus
-Albert Camus
-Dalai Lama
-Charles Darwin

I could probably think of some more but nothing comes to mind right now...

Role models?

I don't have anyone famous, really. But I have my brother. He's got the mentality of a young person and an IQ of (probably) A lot. The thing is, he knows he's strange, weird, and childlike and he could honestly care LESS about whether-or-not people think he's weird or not. He's an aspie, too. Only he's a lot more autistic then me.

oh, I really like Queen too! They were an obsession of mine in High School. But I guess they weren´t actual role models, though. I just sort of had a crush on the drummer....

I never knew of anybody better than Darwin at sheer honesty. It's clear from his diaries that he was completely open to the idea that his evolution theory might be wrong, wanting nothing but the truth. Not a trace of arrogance or wishful thinking.

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No. I never had posters on my walls of anyone famous or important.
I never cared that much to try and emulate another persons' success or characteristics.

Role models?

Depends on the role.

Charles Fort; The first chapter of the Book of the Damned--most excruciating exposition of playing devil's advocate I ever saw.

Ritchie Blackmore; Deep Purple's original lead guitar--still the most underrated rock guitarist ever.

Spike; For non-anime fans, one of the 3 bounty hunter characters in the sci-fi series Cowboy Bebop. His words "Your call" were used only once, in a very specific situation, and had just the right impact.

There may be more, but these are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

Must confess I haven't noticed anybody worth emulating as a whole person since I was young. All my heroes turned out to be mixtures of good and bad (except Darwin perhaps) - and these days I don't believe in the Great And Good.

But individual characteristics seem to stick to me, all the time I see people doing and saying worthwhile things that I never thought of before, and I find myself absorbing such things and making them my own. I'd have a hard time thinking of anything much I've ever done that wasn't a result of cherry-picking little bits of everybody else. If it works, steal it!

Maybe some of the people who posted later didn´t read my original post? I am not so interested in "regular" role models: (i.e,, the "rich and famous")- but rather, did you ever notice someone else who had AS traits, or was "like" you in some way, which, in turn, helped enable you to accept yourself? (For instance, my example was Vincent Van Gogh: I was intrigued by the fact that he and I had so much in common, that he also had social problems, was considered "intense", etc. As an undiagnosed person, with no knowledge of AS at the time, I was fascinated by the similarities, and this in turn helped me to accept myself; I was a person who was "like Van Gogh". It is apparently highly likely that Vincent had AS- many experts agree, though it is hard to really diagnose someone posthumously). But that was my original question: specific role models, with possible AS traits?

This is going to sound absurd coming from me but, yes my role models tended to be the superheroes out of comic books.Not simply cause they had special powers and all but, in many instances several of them had to deal with reali-life troubles in their own manner.A good example of this is, that Iron Man at one time had been an alcoholic as well, Batman has always had to deal with the inner demons of his childhood for, he had seen his parents murdered as a child.. Sincerely though my problems growing up were never that great yet, I've lost many family members over the years from natural causes but, it's not been easy at all in that regard yet, I keep my head up and don't give up on making my way through the world and oneday finding a girlfriend and all.. I hope this has been helpful?

Nothing wrong with super heroes - whatever works

I used to think I was Superboy It comforted me to believe I was invulnerable and immortal. Hope you get your girlfriend wish I was over the moon after my first proper date.

Feste from Twelfth Night - I don't know whether I copied him or whether I was always that way. The fool who paradoxically is also the only one who knows what's going on.