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
Hope said: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)
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)
In fact, some people argue that the universe is not really there until we observe it. So, one man's reality is not necessarily another man's (or woman's) reality.
What reality is to an NT, therefore, is a function of their perceptual apparatus so that if this was a world only populated by Aspies, reality would take on a quite different complexion.
It's no wonder Tom calls himself 'Martian Tom!'
You can't help wondering how alien species (assuming they exist) experience reality. Would their version of it be any less valid than ours?