PEOPLE YOU WOULD NEVER BELIEVE HAD AUTISM!!!
This is a surprising list of people diagnosed or presumed to be autistic based on available research, evidence or studies carried out by experts in the field. It seems more like an award list or hall of fame for achievers. Well, except for a few whose names may make some people cringe. Other than that, you might as well be looking at a copy of " The Guinness Book of Records" or a list of Nobel Laureates.
NAME
|
OCCUPATION (KNOWN FOR)
|
Adolf Hitler
|
Austrian born, Nazi-German
politician, chancellor and dictator (suspected although disputed)
|
Albert Einstein
|
Physicist, Nobel Laureate
|
Alan Turing
|
Pioneer of computer sciences. He seemed to be
a math savant and his lifestyle has many autism traits about it.
|
Blind Tom Wiggins
|
Autistic savant
|
Charles Darwin
|
Naturalist, associated with the theory of evolution by natural
selection
|
Emily Dickinson
|
Poet
|
George Orwell
|
Writer
|
Glenn Gould
|
Canadian pianist and noted Bach interpreter.
|
Isaac Newton
|
English Physicist and mathematician
|
James Joyce
|
Author of Ulysses
|
Jeffrey Dahmer
|
Serial killer
|
Michelangelo
|
Italian Renaissance artist,
based on his inability to form long-term attachments and certain other
characteristics
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
US President
|
William. B. Yeats
|
Poet and dramatist
|
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
|
Composer
|
Source(s) and Further reading suggestions:
- Wikipedia: Famous people with autism
- Berman D, Fitzgerald M, Hayes J (Editors)(1996). The danger of words and writings on Wittgenstein M.O.C. Drury Bristol Thoemmes Press.
- Fitzgerald M, Berman D (1994). "Of Sound Mind". Nature, 368:92. Reprinted in Portraits of Wittgenstein. Ed by F.A. Flowers Thoemmes Press, 1999.
- Fitzgerald M (1999). "Did Isaac Newton have Asperger's Syndrome". European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Journal 8: 244.
Adolph Who?!?!?! I'm not sure I know how that makes me feel but I think I'm more uneasy knowing that. Well on the bright side they said he's an autism "suspect" whatever that means.
ReplyDeleteContrary 2 what most people think,autistics aren't retarded..depending on the classification they fall into,they may be "otherwise normal"..asides d difficulties in social interaction,and a few commas here and there..most of them have special talents and are very good @ rememberin' details wt precision..some pple who we know nd see everyday may even be "undiagnosed autistics"
ReplyDelete@ anonymous: ok now it seems like ur advertizing or marketing autism. Ok o. I guess its all part of promoting autism, right?
ReplyDeleteWow! Adulf too?! I know abt others.. This is getting very interesting. Dis autism is really a next door disorder. Lol
ReplyDelete@Adaoma: It is indeed. In the United States, the most recent estimate states that up to 1 out of every 88 children. In Canada, 1 out of 450. The male-to-female ratio averages 4.3:1 so male children are over 4 times more likely to have it than females.
Delete