William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's 10th P.M. - ASPIE???

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Greetings all.

I am posting this thread in response to another poster here who has asked whether any Western politician was AS-autistic.

If there is any way I could answer this Q, I would be doing so by citing Canada's 10th Prime Minister.

While I head out to the library to find out a little more about this guy, I invite you to do a search about him and let us know what you find. I don't consider myself the expert who can give a straight answer and neither am I aware how extensively Mr King's eccentricities of character have been researched, but I do have every reason to believe he may have been an Aspergian.

Various historians have wondered if Mr. King was gay or a nut-bar, but either way, he was a.k.a. Weird Willie. Below, I am posting what I have had time to find out about him so far:

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada: 1921-26, 1926-30, 1935-48
King had an odd hobby. He gathered stones from pre-confederation buildings being demolished in Ottawa and rebuilt them at Kingsmere, his country home in the Gatineau Hills. He erected many battered 'ruins' which he felt had a 'middle-ages' look.

King firmly believed in the power of Crystal Balls and rarely made a serious decision without first consulting his 'psychic'. It was only after his diaries were examined following his death that King's interest in the occult was discovered.

THE POLITICAL POWER
• 29 December 1921 - 28 June 1926
• 25 September 1926 - 7 August 1930
• 23 October 1935 - 15 November 1948
BORN
• 17 December 1874, Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario
EDUCATION
• University of Toronto (B.A. 1895, LL.B. 1896, M.A. 1897)
• Harvard University (M.A. Economics 1898, Ph.D. 1909)
• University of Chicago
PERSONAL STATUS
• Bachelor
OCCUPATION
• 1900 - 1908 Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour
• 1914 Appointed head of the Department of Industrial Relations, Rockfeller Foundation
• 1917 - 1919 Labour consultant, Rockefeller Foundation
• Author
PARTY
• Liberal
• 1919 - 1948 Party Leader

About Mackenzie King:
Mackenzie King was Prime Minister of Canada off and on for a total of 22 years. A compromiser and conciliator, Mackenzie King was mild-mannered and had a bland public personality. The private personality of Mackenzie King was more exotic, as his diaries show. A devout Christian, he believed in an afterlife, and consulted fortune tellers, communicated with his dead relatives in seances, and pursued "psychical research." Mackenzie King was also extremely superstitious.

http://king.archives.ca/EN/Default.asp