Famous people with autism.

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After doing some research on her, my former psychologist is also convinced Eva Cassidy was indeed, AS!

That 'Pokemon guy' is Satoshi Tajiri. The idea that he has Asperger's seems to have come from a Nintendo comment that he is 'exceedingly creative but eccentric and reclusive. I've also seen comments about his Asperger's DX coming from both Western and Japanese sources. The letter from GameFreak (Tajiri's company) denying an Asperger's dx was a one time incident and it seems odd that no 'official' statement would have been made considering that this information is so wide spread that it appears in offically sanctioned Pokemon wikis and such.

I think the jury is still out on this one. The rest of his biography would support some Asperger's-like traits at least.

Even if he doesn't have Asperger's I think he still gets an honorable mention because he obviously hit that Asperger's nerve with his creation in an amazingly big way.

I suspect it has more to do with rarely seeing the name written and more frequently hearing it. I have frequently had the opposite problem of seeing words written without hearing them pronounced.

My pronunciation of many words that I see a lot in reading, but have never heard spoken, is absurd. When you learn many languages you realize that English phonology (Am I using the write word?) is ridiculous and its impossible to know how a word is pronounced using English orthography.

Bill Gates <3

Yes.

My comment.


I'm still debating on this... Well, I wouldn't say he can't act.

Random thought, but I'd love to see the version of Romeo and Juliet that he starred in in... 1983...


I can see your point, but I still think it is interesting to know. Not because I'd aspire to be like those who actually have it, but because... it's just interesting, you know? I don't draw lines between people like that either.


That's what I believe, too.


Yeah, it's weird. It's just a tendency, I'd say. As everyone is different. Like fields of interest can differ greatly.


Maybe it's a different kind of sarcasm, if such a thing exists. ^^ But that's the problem. It's much too general to say that everyone on the spectrum does not get sarcasm.

Yes Courtney Love seems more ADD than aspie. Shes probably just nuts!

So.... here's my little theory before I go to bed...

I have talked about... Goethe with a friend once and said friend said that Goethe had autistic tendencies... I have thought about this a lot the last couple of days and I think it might be true... and...

Well, I actually thought about the younger Humboldt - Alexander... I started a biography on him a couple of days ago and he was a late bloomer... he... he could not concentrate during the private lessons with his brother. He would hide instead of sitting down and doing his work. And, um, well... I know I was like that when I was... five/six. And on my first school report I was marked as someone who sticks out. I was an odd kid. I adapted later on, but I still have certain... tics.

Also, he had very special interests. He was mad about geology. He obsessively collected plants when he was a small boy. It would be the thing he spent most of his time doing.

And he could draw very well.

And... now comes the conclusion to this post...

Goethe and he almost immediately became friends. And Goethe was said not to do that easily. But both of them... had peculiar interests. Interests that also did not have much to do with one another. Goethe was interested in language, natural science, art, you name it, and they are usually seen as competing disciplines. But he dug it all.

OK.

It keeps me thinking.

I'd say Jesse Eisenberg and Glenn Gould could be autistic.
I'll admit beforehand that I like them very much. Their work but also how they carry/carried themselves in interviews.
Though with Glenn Gould I know, especially later in life, he would script his whole interviews and let nothing be an accident.
Jesse Eisenberg once said that he started acting to fit in somewhere but also because he doesn't know how to function in group situations and acting gives you a place and rules.
It is known that Glenn was a hypochondriac and paranoid among other things, while being highly gifted which all could explain his way of being.
Of Jesse it's also known that he's got Social Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Issues....so that may explain some things,too.
(This is one interivew which is unscripted with Jesse, very intresting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIyRbW9YP3k )

They are not confirmed, so I'm just shamelessly throwing them out there.

Courtney? I don't care if she's confirmed, but... No.

Paddy Considine is amazing.

Lucian Freud - British figurative painter. Grandson of Sigmund Freud and Uncle of Dania Jekel ( executive director of the Asperger's Association of New England.

http://www.familydoctor.co.uk/node/818

Why not take it one step further? All great thinkers and otherwise awesome people in the history of mankind were aspies. It would also be cool if all of them had been atheists, so I hereby posthumously debaptize them in addition to slapping them with an ASD diagnosis. And they all had black hair and blue eyes, because I love that combination.

ahaha

Yeah, man, this should be the official definition of Asperger's Syndrome.

I think this would be true for some. Other great thinkers would never fit the criteria. And I don't really care whether a great thinker had AS or not, but it is still interesting to see.

I was wondering about Cory Monteith from Glee having Asperger's after he died, because he had a fourth grade reading level at the age of five, which is a symptom of hyperlexia(advanced reading ability) and most hyperlexic people have autism. He also said he did drugs to fit in, which implies he was socially isolated from his peers. He also said he preferred reading nonfiction to novels which many aspies do, I've also wondered about Zachary Quinto, and Nicholas Cage.