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Did you know that bill gates, albert einstein and issac newton all had aspergers, and that 1 in 250 people have it?

Yep. Also Andy Kaufman, Jane Austen, Beethoven and Andy Warhol

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The words Did you know were copywrighted so they had to use Were you aware in jon stewarts book.

But seriously, as medical science does more research and just generally progresses i'm pretty confident that they will find that all people exist in a spectrum of mental condition. And it isn't like a illness where the symptoms are clear and the implications are clear. It used to be that people were crazy or not crazy, then there were several distinct conditions including schizophrenia to describe apparent insanity. Then they came up with a dozen different forms of schizophrenia. Peoples minds are very very flexible, and I doubt anyone is truely very clear cut. There are ranges of the way peoples memories work, and peoples ability to understand things, and other interesting mental mechanisms which all fall into the description of normal. So i think that the mind just has a series of mechanisms which exist in a range, and the variation between people is too great to identify normality really.

There are some unconfirmed statistics that the incidence is up to 1:125 in kids born within the last 10 years. I'm not yet sure if this is just propaganda or not though.

Just better diagnosing.

LOL I was going to post the same thing but figured I'd read everyone else's responses first.

Don't forget Emily Dickinson. J. R. R. Tolkien is another name suspected of it as well.

Einstein is suspected of having been High-Functioning Autistic, not Aspergers. Because he had the language delay.

And I think someone on here before said Bill Gates was diagnosed PDD-NOS as a kid.

I have heard about Isaac Newton possibly having Aspergers, though I've heard no more than this and never any of his symptomology. Of course, I haven't tried very hard to find out.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, mentioned in another thread, is thought to have been possibly HFA because he had language delay as well, amongst other characteristics.

Possibly a good book to get which discusses a lot of these famous people as possibly having Aspergers is The Genesis of Artistic Creativity. However, it has yet to be released and the date has now been pushed back till August. (FYI: Overstock.com probably is selling it the cheapest in case anyone is interested.)

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I wish I was famous.

I recently found out that one of my heroes, the dadaist composer Eric Satie, was probably HFA.

I learned about the Dada movement in my German class this last semester.

Yes, I knew that also.

This is funny, because someone once said I reminded them of Andy Kaufman. They said I was like him because I made alot of noise and wasn't funny, or something to that effect.

I've seen lists of famous people with suspected Asperger's syndrome before, but this one here is interesting because it lists lots of other, ahem... disabilities. http://postsecondaryoptions.org/famousp ... thdis.html