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10 Famous People With Asperger’s Syndrome (You Don’t Know!) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspy world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  In this video, I'm breaking down 10 famous people with Asperger's
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  Syndrome. Sit back, buckle up, let's get
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  started. My name is Dan and I have
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  Asperger syndrome in ADHD and I make weekly videos all about
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  this stuff. So if you're new around here,
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  make sure you hit that subscribe button by clicking the
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  notification bell down below and click follow on all the other
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  social media platforms that you are watching this video on to
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  see more videos. So. 10 people with Asperger
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  syndrome who are famous, you probably didn't even know about,
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  which is pretty awesome because this is really interesting.
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  So the first one we're going to talk about is Dan Aykroyd.
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  Now Dan Aykroyd is a very famous movie star and director.
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  He's also written load of movies.
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  Now he's in different movies from generations and one of my
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  favorite. Is.
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  Ghostbusters. He plays Ray in Ghostbusters
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  now. Dan Aykroyd.
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  Also wrote. Ghostbusters.
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  But I also saw a really interesting interview with Dan
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  Aykroyd when he was on TV and the interviewer said to Dan
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  Aykroyd, oh, do you, do you have anything odd or interesting
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  about you said, yeah, you know, I have Asperger's syndrome,
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  which is basically a form of autism and Asperger's syndrome
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  is autism. Just so you guys know.
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  I will leave a link down below for a video where I explain the
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  difference between autism and Asperger's.
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  But there isn't any difference, right.
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  But there's more in depth version of why the terms exist.
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  And Dan Aykroyd said one of the most interesting things he does
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  is he barks in his sleep, which is funny because me, I bark in
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  my sleep. I have absolutely syndrome.
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  My name is Dan and I back in my sleep, We may be the same
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  person. No, we're not really.
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  And also a friend of mine, Pamela comedy.
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  She's on like a Jewish dating show on Netflix, but she's also
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  a comedian. She's a good friend of mine.
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  And she also barks in her sleep. But she has Tourette's.
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  Really interesting, right? But Dan Aykroyd, super dope guy.
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  Asperger syndrome. OK, the next person I'm going to
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  talk about of famous celebrities with Asperger's syndrome is Adam
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  Young. Now Adam Young is formerly known
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  by the name Owl City, now Owl. City is a musical.
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  Career band thing, which is basically a person who puts
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  music out. So Owl City is the name of the
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  band, but it's just one guy, it's Adam Young.
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  Now Adam Young is a multi musician from America and he is
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  just phenomenal. Actually him and I were born
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  like 5 days apart which is pretty interesting.
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  But I just was going, OK, I'm filming a video I'm on.
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  You need my help. Oh no, just wanted to give you
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  an update. Adam Young is one of my favorite
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  musical kind of people in the world.
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  He's a multi musician as am I, so I take like big inspiration
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  from him. But also Owl City is some of the
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  best music I've ever heard ever. But he's commented lots and lots
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  in different interviews that he has Asperger's syndrome, and it
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  kind of helps with the creative. It helps with this creative.
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  Path of. Being a multi musician and it's
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  given him the ability to do things that are kind of like,
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  you know, where he can hyper focus on music rather than like
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  socializing and stuff like that, which is very common for people
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  on the autism spectrum. And that was my number two.
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  OK, so #3 is Sir Anthony Hopkins.
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  Now this one quite close to my heart.
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  Sir Anthony Hopkins is an actor, an amazing actor and he's Welsh
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  and I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, right?
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  Even though I may not sound like it, I was born in Wales, North
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  Wales, Anglesey, Goglithe company, I'm here in Wales, love
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  it right now. If you haven't already, make
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  sure you hit the subscribe button down below to get more
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  videos from me. Anthony Hopkins was quoted
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  saying that a lot of his success and a lot of like the the
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  amazing things that happened in his life is due to the fact he
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  has Asperger's syndrome and he's able to focus on lines and
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  remember things that others probably wouldn't.
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  And his wife also said this is one of the most attractive
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  qualities of him being an autistic individual.
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  This gives him like an edge that she finds really interesting and
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  it's quite attractive. So that is really interesting
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  announcing obvious being one of the.
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  Best actors ever. Super dope and he's part of the
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  gang. What up Anthony?
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  OK, the next one is Tim Burton. Now Tim Burton is super famous.
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  Like everybody knows who Tim Burton is.
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  He's good friends with Johnny Depp and Helen of All the
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  Carter. Like.
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  Those two people are always in all his movies.
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  You know, he's done stuff like The Nightmare Before Christmas
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  and there's just, I can't even go into the amount of movies
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  he's done, like, you know, Willy Wonka, the Chocolate Factory,
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  just amazing movies, right? Tim Burton is head and shoulders
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  above anybody else in terms of like this unusual dark animation
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  and it's so dope. Like he.
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  Is ace. But he also has Asperger's
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  syndrome. And if you see the guy, you'll
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  see why. Like, he's very unique, very
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  uniquely talented, and he has some really interesting insight
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  from himself of how he conducts himself in in reality.
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  But those things are really interesting and characteristic
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  of somebody. With.
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  Autism, right? So This is why he is who he is
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  video. The next person on my list is
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  OK, I'm going to read this out so make sure that I say this
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  correctly. It's Satoshi Tajiri.
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  Now, Satoshi Tajiri is the inventor or the creator of
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  Pokémon, right? And all artistic individuals
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  love Pokémon like I. I was obsessed with Pokémon.
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  For many, many years, I was always been obsessed with
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  Pokémon. I still called Pokémon cards
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  now, and one of my dreams was to go to the Pokémon Center in
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  Japan in in Tokyo. I think it's it's in Tokyo or
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  somewhere. It's somewhere near Tokyo, but I
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  want to go to the Pokémon Center anyway.
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  The creator of Pokémon, he's autistic himself.
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  Now, Pokémon actually likes the life of many autistic kids and
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  adults all around the world. And it's something that actually
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  unites and connects us all together.
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  And I love this about it. I love that, the fact that the
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  guy who created Pokémon, he's autistic himself, because it
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  kind of makes you think, yeah, you know, like, it makes sense.
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  That's why autistic people like it, because it resonates with
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  us, because of us. That makes sense.
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  Anyway, you get what I'm saying? But it's super, super awesome.
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  OK, so the next person I'm going to talk about the element
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  controversial is Courtney Love. Now Courtney Love was married to
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  the guitarist from Nirvana called Kurt Cobain.
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  Now, Kurt Cobain sadly died of suicide back in 1994, I think it
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  was. And Courtney Love was married to
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  him at the time. Or she had divorced him.
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  I'm not telling you, but she was married to him at one point,
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  right? She's also a musician.
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  She's in a band called Whole. But she does.
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  All kinds of cool stuff and she's a celebrity and she does
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  kind of cool things like that. But Courtney Love also having
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  Asperger syndrome, later diagnosed, but being a female
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  was really interesting because a lot of the time we we come
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  across a lot of people who are male who, who display autism
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  traitor we see in the media males.
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  So it's nice to see females resonating with that, which
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  leads me on to the next one, which is Daryl Hannah.
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  Now, Carol Hannah is an actress and she's in many things and I'm
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  pretty sure she plays the person the main character in Killed
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  Bill, which is like a a Tarantino movie.
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  But again, amazing actress, does a lot of cool things and is on
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  the autism spectrum. And it is so cool because it's
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  inspiring for young people, young girls, young women to kind
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  of see, you know, autistic females kicking butt in.
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  Hollywood I love. This OK.
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  The next one also is a female. This is Susan Boyle.
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  Now, Susan Boyle is a British singer from a competition over
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  here. We had called The X Factor, and
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  with Simon Cowell, everyone knows of Simon Cowell is right.
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  But she went on this and she sang, and it was either this one
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  or Britain's Got Talent, one of those two.
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  And she sang really, really well and she did all this stuff.
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  But she was a bit quirky, right? She's a Scottish lady, a bit
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  quirky, her hairstyle. And.
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  Clothes were a bit funky and she didn't really have the pop star
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  appeal that you would think from somebody who would like.
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  You know, be. Super, super famous.
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  You know, she still lives in the same house.
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  It was a social house housing that she still lives in.
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  But she's worth like millions and millions of pounds.
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  Susan Boyle has hospital syndrome.
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  She's done a lot of work with the National Artistic Society,
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  which is with the charity here in the UK that I work a lot
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  with. And it's just so nice to see
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  that she's kicking butt and being just genuinely her.
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  It's super awesome. OK, so the next person is a
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  musician called Craig Nichols. And Craig Nicholas is a
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  guitarist and singer from a band called The Vines.
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  These were really big in the early to mid 2000s, right?
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  They're Australian. And he was later diagnosed with
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  Asperger's syndrome, I think partway through his musical
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  career because as he was diagnosed, he said he was on
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  tour, I'm sure. And he said that like the his
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  doctors and psychiatrists kind of helped him change his diet
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  because he was just like binge eating fast food, which is
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  typical of people on the autism spectrum because we're trying to
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  keep up with the speed in our brain going.
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  So we need all these to keep us afloat, which doesn't always
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  work out, but it works out kind of temporarily anyway.
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  Really interesting. A great interview with him.
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  But yeah, it's just really interesting to.
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  See this guy. Talking about Asperger's
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  syndrome openly. And it's just a thing that is
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  part of his life. And the last person I'm going to
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  talk about here is James Durbin. Now, James Durbin is an American
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  singer and songwriter who was made famous from appearing on
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  American Idol. Now American Idol is similar to
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  the British. TV shows.
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  I was just. Talking about where Simon Cowell
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  and a bunch of other celebrities judge people on the singing
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  ability to pass them through in a competition like format.
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  Now this is super awesome. This guy also has Asperger
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  syndrome, openly talked about it, diagnosed with it.
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  But it's a really good, inspiring way to see that.
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  Like Hollywood style stars or Hollywood level?
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  Celebrities also suffer. From the, the mundane people's
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  issues with Asperger's syndrome, right?
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  Like so sometimes, you know, like socializing or
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  understanding social conventions, all those things
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  that like we as you know, the typical average people will deal
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  with having Asperger syndrome. That's celebrities who have like
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  all this money and all this fame.
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  They also deal with those same issues day in, day out.
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  And it's so reassuring and validating to know like, hey,
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  you know, I'm not alone in this. I actually have people who are,
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  you know, super famous who have the same traits as me.
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  Now, I'd love to know more about this from your perspective guys,
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  if you have anything to add, pop it in a comment down below.
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  I'd read and respond to every single one.
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  See you later. Peace.
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