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Question: What important people in history have had asperger's syndrome?

(Posted by: tehavelman on 2010-02-18 08:46:45)

Im writing a paper for health class and i had to do a report on asperger's syndrome and i had an idea that i should look up people who had the dissorder.

Posted by: Megan on 2010-02-18, 08:56:17

These to sites are very good. = ] disabled-world.com/ artman/ publish/ article_2086.shtml en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Historical_figures_sometimes_considered_autistic

Posted by: Nicole on 2010-02-18, 08:57:56

You won't find such people, simply because Asperger's was "discovered " only recently. Nobody in history was diagnosed. There are many who very likely had it, though. Einstein and Imanuel Kant for example. You could ask at wrongplanet.net/ forums.html .

Posted by: nautilus on 2010-02-19, 00:30:53

Temple Grandin, a famous behaviour scientist was diagnosed with autism. But there could have been many important people autistic in history, since the diagnosos is very young. So the psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen made a list with some people (please notice, that this is not a clinical diagnosis): Isaac Newton Immanuel Kant Albert Einstein Alfred Hitchcock Karl Valentin Ludwig van Beethoven Howard Hughes (--- > Scorsese's Film Aviator) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Glenn Gould not dead: Steven Spielberg Michael Palin Bill Gates

Posted by: <xXRockLobsterXx> on 2010-02-22, 00:40:08

People who are speculated to have had Asberger's Syndrome: Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Vincent Van Gogh, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Charles Darwin, Michelangelo, Bill Gates, Thomas Edison, Woody Allen, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, George Orwell, Lewis Carrol, Jim Henson, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Charles Schultz, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Jackson, and Gary Numan