Famous People One Thinks Could Be On The Spectrum.

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This makes no sense. Since when has getting an autism diagnosis been "desireable"?

There have been celebs who publicly labeled themselves. For example Jerry Seinfeld. But he said that he "read up on it and decided that that sounds like me". He didnt "pay a shrink to diagnose him" any desired way.

Hello, I have met people that appear to act envious of an ASD diagnosis. In my experience, this behaviour has the ability to prevent the potentially envious person from acknowledging the person with ASD = problem. This is a well versed situation that has been dramatised in TV shows like 'ATypical' etc. My point was that money equals power in our societies. I find it easy to imagine that the personal doctors and psychologists of the rich are somewhat controlled by their paymasters.

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I feel like some celebs "want" an Asperger's diagnosis because, then, this would excuse their sometimes unstable behavior and situations where they screw up in interviews.

What is masking? Also, Mountain Goat, what are those other traits CL has?

Lincoln was way too people savvy to be on the spectrum. Grant on the other hand...

I'll actually second this one. If you've ever read any of his autobiography (allegedly written by backer Mark Twain), Grant comes off as either very socially naive or incredibly disingenuous in his comprehension of the social dynamics around him.

An author has claimed France's last king Louis XVI was born with autism-spectrum disorder, leaving him vulnerable to the self-interests of ministers, struggling to be intimate with his wife Marie Antoinette and ‘unable to look anyone in the eye’.

But American writer Nancy Goldstone told AirMail that the monarch's struggles started from birth, after he was born in 1754 with autism-spectrum disorder (ASD), a condition no one understood at the time.

Making her claim, Nancy said: ‘So, although highly intelligent and in every other way a more compassionate, moral, honest, and better-intentioned ruler than his predecessor (Louis XV), the new King of France was unable to look anyone in the eye.

He could not read others’ expressions; spoke rarely and then in an odd, toneless voice; cried when under pressure; and, most importantly as it related to his young wife, did not understand the sex act until five years into their marriage, when Marie Antoinette’s older brother came for a visit and explained in a gentle, factual manner the mechanics of conception.'

The author also claims Marie Antoinette wasn’t as influential as citizens believed since Louis XVI’s ministers had ‘figured out early how to manage the king in order to get the policies they wanted passed’.

While he was introverted and shy, she was a social butterfly who loved gambling, partying and extravagant fashions.