Published on 12, July, 2020
With many of these people, the condition is highly speculative rather than actually diagnosed. Some of the symptoms suggested, too, could indicate other conditions - particularly with people like Woody Allen.
Still... I find it reassuring in many ways to maybe share something in common with people who've made such an impact in their own particular ways...
www.asperger-syndrome.me.uk/people.htm
I think the Russian poet/novelist and artist Mikhail Lermontov was, from all I've read about him, and he depicts Pechorin as a very Aspie character (strongly autobiographical) in A Hero of our Time. The phenomenon of the "Superfluous Person", as Pechorin has sometimes been regarded, has been seen as socio-political, but I think it's more to do with his brain-wiring.