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Famous Autistic People in History

☕Tassimo ☕

I feel as if i really have joined an exclusive club! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer); Sir Isaac Newton (Mathematician, Astronomer), William Butler Yeats (poet).

  • Tassimo,

    If you look at all they are well known for you'll see their works were systematic, had structure, creativity, radical thinking and a greater level of focus for longer periods of time compared to those not on The Autism Spectrum.

    Mozart, music composition is composed with system, structures, patterns and creativity.

    Newton, mathematics take much logical, analytical and detailed thinking, astronomy involves going out of the box.

    Yeats, poems have structures and patterns in them and need creative thinking.

    This connects to neurodiversity, it's thanks to the differences in their brains why they were so good and committed to their fields. At the back of an autistic brain in what they call the "occipital lobes" there's variation that makes the brain work in a systematic way, this does explain routines and why anxiety rises when things are unpredictable. Anything that has a structure to it works in favour of autistic people.

    The other valuable difference is autistic brains use the left hemisphere (side) of the brain more than the right. The left side of the brain controls analytical, logical, critical, creative, radical and detailed thinking. So by using the left side more we are more analytical, logical, critical etc. than people not on the Autism Spectrum.

    Another valuable difference when in a suitable environment is the autistic brain lacks the filter that releases all information, by lacking the filter we can hold onto information for a longer period of time, even if it seems irrelevant. This is why when in an unsuitable environment some people on the spectrum can have "information overload".

    All these differences in the brain provide valuable gifts as well as uncommon difficulties.

  • in reply to violetdr3amer
    violetdr3amer said:
    Anthony Hopkins is also autistic

    Yeah - you can see it in the way he studies things - quite intense.     Very cool for close-up work.    Good eyes.

  • Anthony Hopkins is also autistic, as is the guy who invented Pokemon.

  • Some people speculate that the Nikola Tesla, inventor of many important things was autistic.

  • Einstein, Bill Gates, Elon Musk

    1. Woody Allen (rumored)
    2. David Byrne (diagnosed)
    3. Dan Aykroyd (diagnosed)
    4. Charles Darwin (rumored)
    5. Thomas Edison (rumored)
    6. Albert Einstein (rumored)
    7. Darryl Hannah (diagnosed)
    8. Alfred Hitchcock (rumored)
    9. Courtney Love (diagnosed)
    10. Lionel Messi (rumored)
    11. Sir Isaac Newton (rumored)
    12. Steve Jobs (rumored)
    13. Jerry Seinfeld (self-diagnosed

  • Charles Darwin  (Naturalist)