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Were Steve jobs and Albert Einstein on the autistic spectrum?

 
 
Corley
 
Reply Sat 1 Sep, 2018 01:12 pm
Hi I’m Corley Walsh I have aspergers which is high functioning autism and at a autism awareness meeting I heard that Steve jobs and Albert Einstein supposedly had aspergers too
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BillRM
 
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Reply Sun 2 Sep, 2018 04:30 pm
@Corley,
Corley wrote:

Hi I’m Corley Walsh I have aspergers which is high functioning autism and at a autism awareness meeting I heard that Steve jobs and Albert Einstein supposedly had aspergers too


I never hear that either one of those gentlemen suffer from such conditions.

They both was married with Jobs with three children for 20 years and Einstein married two times and with one known child and a first child by his first wife that seems to had disappear from the public records before they was married.

Einstein was also known as a lady man with many lovers that his second wife put up with for some reason or the other.

Both men was world famous with Jobs running one of the most successful firms in history an Einstein beside his work in physics was a famous pacifist an was ask to be the first president of Israel.

None of those two men histories would lead me to think that either of those two men had that condition or any other condition that would limit their ability to from relationships

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https://psychcentral.com/disorders/aspergers-disorder-symptoms/

Asperger’s disorder is a syndrome that typically appears first in childhood, and is primarily characterized by a person’s difficulty in everyday social interactions with others. For instance, a person with Asperger’s may engage in long-winded, one-sided conversations without noticing or caring about the listener’s interest. They also often lack usual nonverbal communication skills, such as engaging in eye contact with others during conversation, or failing to react and empathize with other people’s stories and conversation. This may make them seem insensitive, although that is rarely the case. They may have a hard time “reading” other people or understanding humor.

Adults, too, may have Asperger’s, as often the disorder is not properly diagnosed in childhood. Asperger’s is considered the mildest, least severe form of autism. The following five criteria primarily characterize Asperger’s disorder.

1. A significant, ongoing impairment in social interactions with others, as demonstrated by at least two of the following symptoms:

Significant difficulty in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors such as the lack of eye contact, few facial expressions, awkward or clumsy body postures and gestures
Failure to develop friendships with other children of the same age
Lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, or achievements with other people (e.g., by a lack of showing, bringing, or pointing out objects of interest to other people)
Failure to express appropriate and corresponding social or emotional reactions, such as when conversing or playing with others. For example, a child who shows little or no reaction, feelings, or empathy to another child talking with them.
2. Restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as shown by at least one of the following symptoms:

A significant and encompassing preoccupation or obsession with one or two restricted topics, that is abnormal either in intensity, subject or focus (such as baseball statistics or the weather)
Seemingly inflexible adherence to specific routines or rituals that serve little purpose
Repetitive motor mannerisms. For example, hand or finger flapping or twisting, or complex whole-body movements.
A persistent preoccupation with parts of objects
3. The set of symptoms causes significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

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laughoutlood
 
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Reply Sun 2 Sep, 2018 09:09 pm
@Corley,
Hiya & higher C.

It's a definite maybe, probably not, although they did exhibit some traits.

The list of famous, talented people with Asperger's is sufficiently long anyway.

Focus on your studies and build your abilities to achieve personal success.

I'd ditch a real name as a nickname on websites.

BillRM
 
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Reply Sun 2 Sep, 2018 09:46 pm
@laughoutlood,
laughoutlood wrote:

Hiya & higher C.

It's a definite maybe, probably not, although they did exhibit some traits.

The list of famous, talented people with Asperger's is sufficiently long anyway.

Focus on your studies and build your abilities to achieve personal success.

I'd ditch a real name as a nickname on websites.




You are one hundred percent correct as far as the usefulness of labeling go in any case.

We all fit on a bell curve for most of our characters in life and those characters change over time.

For myself I was a loner and bookworm that did not start to come out of my shell starting with fellow loners/bookworms until late high school to early college.

Those who get to do the labeling of students are more often wrong then not.

I still laugh at how hard they needed to work to try to classified myself and the best they could in the end come up with is that I was not as bright as I thought I was and was just an overachiever or at least that was what they told my father in a meeting.

Shame on me as in every subject I found interesting such as physic,math and even history I blow away the official honor role students and in the other subjects I was a B or even a C student.

In any case it is wise to take such labeling with a very large gain of salt.
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