Another name added to my MONSTER list

The total number of famous names in my list of famous people who are or might be or were or might have been autistic has grown to 173 with the addition of the Austrian poet and dramatist Franz Grillparzer, who was a favourite poet of an Austrian paediatrician named Hans Asperger. Dr Hans Asperger was one of the two first people to scientifically describe autism/Asperger syndrome, and he had the insight to observe that "autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community" and "the autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence". The wise Dr Asperger was possibly on the spectrum himself, and his possible place on the spectrum was discussed in 2007 in a two-page letter to a scientific autism journal.

Many incredibly fascinating and/or powerful and/or sickeningly wealthy and/or ridiculously smart and/or important people are included in my massive list. It would be a dull old human race for sure without those autism genes working their magic!


A referenced list of 173 famous or important people diagnosed with an autism spectrum condition or subject of published speculation about whether they are or were on the autistic spectrum (have you got that?)
http://incorrectpleasures.blogspot.com/2006/09/referenced-list-of-famous-or-important.html