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Famous People With Aspergers - 10 Historical Icons (You Never knew) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Some here 10 famous people with Aspergers.
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  All that's coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan, I have
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  Asperger's Syndrome, ADHDOCD and dyslexia, and I make weekly
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  So welcome back, guys. What's going on?
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  The place where we think differently daily?
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  What's going on? Different thinkers guys.
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  Go and do that right now guys. Excited.
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  I haven't done one of these kind of like celebrities with autism
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  kind of videos for a long, long time.
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  Make sure I'm in focus here guys.
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  So I haven't done one of these videos for a long, long time
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  where I'm doing like celebrities with autism and stuff like that.
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  So I've picked out 10 historical icons that are on the autism
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  spectrum, and I want to go through with you right now.
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  This is super, super dope. Guys, if you have anything to
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  add question wise, you can always pop me up, comment down
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  here. I read every single one.
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  Or you can hit me up on Twitter and Instagram.
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  I message everybody back. And so I'm always open for DMS
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  Okay. So here are 10 influential
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  historian icons who are famous and they have Asperger syndrome.
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  All right, let's get into it. Okay.
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  So the first one most notable, I'm probably most common is
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  Albert Einstein. He's an influential scientist
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  and he, you know, the theory of relativity.
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  And he pretty much is just an absolute gem of a guy.
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  Albert Einstein was very notably a bit of a different thinker.
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  And he was, yeah, a scientist. He did amazing things.
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  And yeah, he was also on the autism spectrum because
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  basically there was this. These were all done by people
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  looking back at people who are historical figures and icons and
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  then kind of like applying the same kind of diagnostic criteria
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  as they would today. So that being said, Albert
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  Einstein would be on the spectrum.
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  If you run through the diagnostic today, #2 is Sir
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  Isaac Newton, not Isaac Newton. You know, the guy with the apple
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  who fell down, he was kind of like the guy who discovered
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  gravity. And you know, again, an
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  influential scientist who are kind of a bizarre history.
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  He, he actually at one point made his landlord create a
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  staircase into the back of his house so we wouldn't have to see
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  anybody on the way in because he wanted to just avoid human
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  contact in all possible cases. He was just a very eccentric but
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  very brilliant man and an influential scientist, obviously
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  for for weights and physics, physics and chemistry.
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  But in terms of Isaac Newman, again, the things like social
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  isolation and trying to get away from, you know, social
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  situations and his bizarre personality did mark him down as
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  being an autistic person who would have been diagnosed with
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  something like Asperger's syndrome if he was still alive
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  today. OK, guys, so #3 is Hans
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  Christian Anderson. Now.
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  Hans Christian Anderson is a very famous author, a very
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  impactful author. Actually, I think he'd done,
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  like, so many books. But Hans Christian Anderson,
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  again, was put through the same criteria and said that he had
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  autism. So I always find that the Hans
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  Christian Anderson one was very interesting because it's nice to
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  see authors being kind of on the autism spectrum and things like
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  that because a lot of autistic people do have issues with
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  reading and writing. So that was kind of cool.
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  OK, so #4 is Charles Darwin, who is actually a very famous
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  philosopher and a famous scientist, and he kind of came
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  up with that whole kind of theory of evolution and the
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  survive and all that kind of stuff.
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  So yeah, Charles Darwin, absolute legend of a guy and
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  just all around proper gangster. He was awesome.
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  OK, so #5 is Thomas Jefferson, not Thomas Jefferson, is an
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  early, influential American politician.
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  And he was just absolutely just, you know, crazy and just came up
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  with all this kind of crazy stuff.
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  But he was very influential. He was very intense.
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  He was very intellectual and had some great insight into things.
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  Especially American politics was kind of like his thing.
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  So of course, you know, when they said he was on the
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  spectrum, and I do believe them from the things I've read about
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  Thomas Jefferson, And he's quite interesting.
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  OK, guys, number six is Andy Warhol.
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  Now, Andy Warhol is a very famous photographer, probably
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  like the most influential photographer of all time.
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  And he was so artistically creative but also bizarre.
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  And because of this, it led him to be looked upon as being
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  someone who'd be on the autism spectrum.
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  He was put to the diagnostic criteria.
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  And Andy Warhol is just a very, very, very famous photographer
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  who was just super influential. I think, like, he's probably the
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  most influential photographer ever.
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  I think, you know, his art is just insane.
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  OK guys, number seven is Nikola Tesla, obviously an amazingly
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  clever scientist. Nikola Tesla is the reason we
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  have electric going through grid systems at the certain currents
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  that they are in. And it's just he's just amazing.
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  Fantastic guy, very odd guy, very fantastic.
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  And of course, he had every single trait of autism you could
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  think of. And just very clever guy, but
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  very troubled also. OK, #8, it's an interesting one.
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  This is Steve Jobs. Well, Steve Jobs is the creator
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  of Apple for Apple Macintosh computers.
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  And he, along with a guy called Steve Wozniak set it up.
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  But now it was just like Steve Jobs till the end.
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  Until he passed away, sadly. But Steve Jobs was a very
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  eccentric man, very interesting, Couldn't hold down
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  relationships. Had to wash his feet before
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  going on stage. Actually remember seeing the
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  documentary? Sorry, it wasn't documentary.
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  It was a film documenting his life.
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  It was like a reenactment. And he, like, washed his feet in
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  the toilet bowl before going on stage because he just had to
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  wash his feet, which was just just an interesting guy, Quite
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  bizarre, but interesting. But it wasn't terrible
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  relationships and didn't have any emotion.
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  It was all about his work and definitely on the autism
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  spectrum. And this has been speculated for
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  a very, very long time. OK, so #9 is Lewis Carroll.
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  Now. He again, is a very famous
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  children's book author from a long time ago.
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  But Lewis Carroll displayed all of the hallmarks of an autism
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  spectrum disorder, which led people to believe that like now
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  Lewis Carroll would be diagnosed with an autism condition.
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  OK, so last but not least on my list here is number 10 Stanley
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  Kubrick. Now Stanley Kubrick was the
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  movie director for 2001 Space Odyssey and just the whole
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  thing. Like he, I think he also did The
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  Shining with Stephen King. But Stanley Kubrick was just a
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  very influential, very very talented creative director of
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  movies and stuff like that. And again, his intense kind of
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  quirks and his differences on the way he thinks really put him
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  online to being seen upon as being being an autistic person,
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  which is just absolutely fantastic.
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  And I think he's awesome. So yeah, that's really
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  interesting. Now, if you guys have anyone
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  else to add to this list that you think I've missed off, pop
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  in a comment down below. Why not?
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  it on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and I'll see you next
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  time, guys. Peace.