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Famous People with Asperger Syndrome or Similar Autistic Traits

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over 8 years ago

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

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  • over 8 years ago

    Mlle Lermontova said:

    Claude really does have serious problems, doesn't he?

    Nice illustration though.

    Yup. He is a walking disaster-area when it comes to social skills. Intellectually brilliant, but socially clueless, exacerbated further by his mediæval ecclesiastical education.

    I love some of those old book illustrations of him (and have had a couple of them printed on t-shirts!). A few years ago, I painted my own 'artist's impression' of him (in the style of Rogier van der Weyden). From the descriptions in the novel, one gets the impression of a very striking young man, tall and dark, with compelling eyes, but whose hair receded into his tonsure at an early age. The quotation I put on the background is from François Villon, and referred to Abelard: "For his love he had this punishment/suffering".

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    He looks like a sensitive and troubled man. That picture speaks to me, Mlle Lermontova.

    BTW, is there no end to your talents?

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  • over 8 years ago

    Mlle Lermontova said:

    Claude really does have serious problems, doesn't he?

    Nice illustration though.

    Yup. He is a walking disaster-area when it comes to social skills. Intellectually brilliant, but socially clueless, exacerbated further by his mediæval ecclesiastical education.

    I love some of those old book illustrations of him (and have had a couple of them printed on t-shirts!). A few years ago, I painted my own 'artist's impression' of him (in the style of Rogier van der Weyden). From the descriptions in the novel, one gets the impression of a very striking young man, tall and dark, with compelling eyes, but whose hair receded into his tonsure at an early age. The quotation I put on the background is from François Villon, and referred to Abelard: "For his love he had this punishment/suffering".

    [/quote]

    He looks like a sensitive and troubled man. That picture speaks to me, Mlle Lermontova.

    BTW, is there no end to your talents?

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