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
Another thought comes to mind.....The Absurd is described by Camus as the gap between the human need for order/coherence/meaning/unity, and the inhuman indifference of the Universe which is unreasonable because it does not provide any meaning. When a human being contemplates this divorce between desire and reality, they experience the feeling of The Absurd. And surely if anyone experiences this sense of disorientation, a prime candidate would have to be someone with autism (as Martian Tom alluded to earlier)