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06 Dec 2011, 8:31 am

I'm sorry it took me awhile to get back on Wrong Planet. I've been very busy.

Okay, so the list so far is:

Heather Kuzmich
Adam Young
Ladyhawke
Clay Marzo
Temple Gradin
Courtney Love
Aaron Ducker
Gary Numan
Paddy Considine

I moved Courtney Love down on the list because everyone is right. That's not one that I'm particularly proud of. :wink:

I've been doing some more research and I found that there was a study done on some people that had autism, post mortem. They dissected their brains and it turns out that we have on average 67% more neurons than people without. So, I would say that you could safely say that Einstein had autism. When they dissected his brain this is what they concluded:

"Alterations in cortical thickness and neuronal density in the frontal cortex of Albert Einstein" was published in 1996. Because Einstein's brain weighed only 1,230 grams (1,400g is average for a man) and his cerebral cortex was thinner than usual, the scientists concluded that Einstein's brain had a much greater density of neurons.

Given this information, his unusual behavior and social ineptness, I'm adding him to the list. If you don't like it... .

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06 Dec 2011, 8:48 am

There's nothing wrong with Courtney Love. I like her music.

Also, Daryl Hannah.

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06 Dec 2011, 8:53 am

Sorry, I forgot

Dan Akroyd
Daryl Hannah

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06 Dec 2011, 9:16 am

Dan Aykroyd.

I lived 40 years of my life watching movies and Saturday Night Live with Dan Aykroyd in them and didn't realize that there was a "y" before that "k". What does that mean?

My theory is someone edited space and time to retroactively change the spelling of Aykroyd's name.

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06 Dec 2011, 9:32 am

Sorry, bout that.

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06 Dec 2011, 10:59 am

Edward Witten

but I might be wrong

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

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06 Dec 2011, 11:02 am

TheBrain wrote:

Sorry, bout that.

I only said something because that first y is so strange to me. How did I miss it all those years?

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06 Dec 2011, 11:16 am

Verdandi wrote:

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Sorry, bout that.

I only said something because that first y is so strange to me. How did I miss it all those years?

Perhaps... it had to do with how it was pronounced?

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06 Dec 2011, 1:06 pm

I read yesterday that Ludwig Wittgenstein was purportedly AS...

And for all you Aspie supremacists out there, get a load of this: [i]"He once said he felt as though he were writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men."[i]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

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06 Dec 2011, 2:26 pm

TheBrain wrote:

peaceloveerin wrote:

TheBrain wrote:

This is the list of confirmed; I skipped the mathematicians and scientists because those are the things that are expected of us. I'm looking for the things that are not steriotypical.

Courtney Love
Heather Kuzmich
Adam Young
Ladyhawke
Clay Marzo
Temple Gradin
Aaron Ducker

Come on, I know that there is more out there.

Courtney Love I don't think has AS...again, she's just crazy messed up.

She was dianosed at three years old.

In 1968? 13 years before the expression "Asperger's Syndrome" being invented?

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06 Dec 2011, 2:31 pm

TheBrain wrote:

I've been doing some more research and I found that there was a study done on some people that had autism, post mortem. They dissected their brains and it turns out that we have on average 67% more neurons than people without. So, I would say that you could safely say that Einstein had autism. When they dissected his brain this is what they concluded:

"Alterations in cortical thickness and neuronal density in the frontal cortex of Albert Einstein" was published in 1996. Because Einstein's brain weighed only 1,230 grams (1,400g is average for a man) and his cerebral cortex was thinner than usual, the scientists concluded that Einstein's brain had a much greater density of neurons.

Given this information, his unusual behavior and social ineptness, I'm adding him to the list. If you don't like it...

Attending that there is not any neurological test to diagnose living people with autism, I doubt that a post-mortem exam could do that. The only thing that you can conclude form these examination is that Einstein has an abnormal neurology, but probably almost all excentric people (autistic or not) have abnormal neurologies (btw, Einstein had a schizophrenic son).

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06 Dec 2011, 2:34 pm

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Christopher Gillberg think that he "fitted almost the syndrome as outlined by Hans Asperger"

http://books.google.pt/books?id=gBvjadMASiMC&pg=PA129

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06 Dec 2011, 3:09 pm

TheBrain is looking for confirmed cases only.

A comprehensive list of probable or possible cases is here: http://incorrectpleasures.blogspot.com/ ... rtant.html

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06 Dec 2011, 4:08 pm

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06 Dec 2011, 4:08 pm

TPE2 wrote:

TheBrain wrote:

peaceloveerin wrote:

TheBrain wrote:

Courtney Love I don't think has AS...again, she's just crazy messed up.

She was dianosed at three years old.

Sorry , she was diagnosed with HFA.

In 1968? 13 years before the expression "Asperger's Syndrome" being invented?

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09 Dec 2011, 8:00 pm

James Durbin, the singer on American Idol, has AS and Tourette's and he is a rising rockstar!

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