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
Sartre's novel Nausea contains characters that could be read as autistic, not least the autodidact who frequents the local library and aims to read all the books in alphabetical order. He is very strange, and has no friends. The narrator of Nausea, Roquentin, is very analytical, detached, and detailed in his thinking.
Thanks for bringing to my attention other interesting characters and literary works - more things to get stuck into!