Einstein and Newton had Asperger's.

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Or at least researchers speculate that they do. And they're talking about Asperger's syndrome which is a higher functioning form of autism. This explains the stories I've heard of Newton having no girlfriend or many interpersonal relationships.
So, I suppose people who are suspected of Asperger's can't be faulted for seeing the world more abstractly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2988647.stm
Last Edit: September 04, 2015, 04:38:11 AM by Lord Starch


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That's an old as fuck article from 2003. We will never know if they were actually subhuman meat calculators or not.


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i highly doubt einstein had autism, he had relationships and children with like three different women


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i highly doubt einstein had autism, he had relationships and children with like three different women

This. Autism is overdiagnosed and any eccentric could be easily labeled as a burger. I remember reading a while back that over half of all cases of autism are misdiagnosed.

We're still pretty much in the dark ages with mental health.


 
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i highly doubt einstein had autism, he had relationships and children with like three different women

This. Autism is overdiagnosed and any eccentric could be easily labeled as a burger. I remember reading a while back that over half of all cases of autism are misdiagnosed.

We're still pretty much in the dark ages with mental health.
so much this

But whenever I tell people that they get all offended, just like with ADHD kid's mothers five years ago.


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i highly doubt einstein had autism, he had relationships and children with like three different women

There is a huge stigma that people with autism cannot have normal lives or children, and where in some cases this is true, but those with "Aspergers" (which is now diagnosed as high functioning autism due to the shift of diagnosing it as "autism spectrum disorder") are fully capable of living on their own and having intimate relationships.


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i highly doubt einstein had autism, he had relationships and children with like three different women

There is a huge stigma that people with autism cannot have normal lives or children, and where in some cases this is true, but those with "Aspergers" (which is now diagnosed as high functioning autism due to the shift of diagnosing it as "autism spectrum disorder") are fully capable of living on their own and having intimate relationships.

I might be misinformed but assburgers almost seems like an entirely seperate mental illness that shares characteristics of autism (like a lot of mental illnesses do).


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i highly doubt einstein had autism, he had relationships and children with like three different women

There is a huge stigma that people with autism cannot have normal lives or children, and where in some cases this is true, but those with "Aspergers" (which is now diagnosed as high functioning autism due to the shift of diagnosing it as "autism spectrum disorder") are fully capable of living on their own and having intimate relationships.

I might be misinformed but assburgers almost seems like an entirely seperate mental illness that shares characteristics of autism (like a lot of mental illnesses do).

My friend's son was diagnosed aspergers when he was little, but within the past couple of years the doctors informed her of the diagnosis change. Aspergers is now considered part of the Autism Spectrum and is the highest functioning.


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i highly doubt einstein had autism, he had relationships and children with like three different women

There is a huge stigma that people with autism cannot have normal lives or children, and where in some cases this is true, but those with "Aspergers" (which is now diagnosed as high functioning autism due to the shift of diagnosing it as "autism spectrum disorder") are fully capable of living on their own and having intimate relationships.

I might be misinformed but assburgers almost seems like an entirely seperate mental illness that shares characteristics of autism (like a lot of mental illnesses do).

My friend's son was diagnosed aspergers when he was little, but within the past couple of years the doctors informed her of the diagnosis change. Aspergers is now considered part of the Autism Spectrum and is the highest functioning.

I see. This is probably just a case of me meeting people who were misdiagnosed, or something, because they didn't really act like autists.


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i highly doubt einstein had autism, he had relationships and children with like three different women
Asperger's (which is high functioning autism with slightly different variables in the spectrum) doesn't necessarily mean a person won't have successful relationships. Also didn't he marry his cousin?


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Newton doesn't surprise me. But I doubt Einstein did. He used to flash women, after all.


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Newton, maybe. . .although you have to take into account the guys childhood.

It wasn't fun even for back then.


I kind of doubt Einstein.


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Even if they did why would it be relevant at all?


 
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Newton doesn't surprise me. But I doubt Einstein did. He used to flash women, after all.