Main articles: List of autistic people and People speculated to have been autistic
AS is sometimes viewed as a syndrome with both advantages and disadvantages,[101] and notable adults with AS or autism have achieved success in their fields. Prominent AS-diagnosed individuals include Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon Smith,[102] electropop rocker Gary Numan,[103] Vines frontman Craig Nicholls[104] and Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon.[105] Colorado State University professor and author Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism at a young age, and has used her autism to her advantage in her profession as an animal behaviorist specializing in livestock handling.[106][107]
The syndrome was in the news in 2007 because of the suicide of Nikki Bacharach, the only child of the songwriter Burt Bacharach and his former wife, Angie Dickinson. The younger Bacharach had AS. A month later, Daniel Tammet, the subject of the television documentary Brainman, published Born On a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant (Free Press), a memoir of his life with AS, and was profiled in The New York Times.[108]
Some AS researchers speculate that well-known figures, including Jeremy Bentham,[109] Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton,[110] Glenn Gould[111] and Ludwig Wittgenstein[112] had AS because they showed some AS-related tendencies or behaviors, such as intense interest in one subject, and/or social problems.[113][114] These speculative diagnoses, especially posthumous ones, remain controversial, as they work only from biographical information and sometimes ignore documented traits that would indicate against Asperger syndrome.[110] Autistic-rights activists use such speculative diagnoses to argue that it would be a loss to society if autism were cured.[115]

some interesting lists, of people, and yeah as amazing as many of the people that are listed, there are the ones who have major problems, one that i can say can be beyond frustrating

you're lucky. most everyone i've know has had them break off eventually.

uh nice t-shirt

the absence of boobs made me realise for the first time that "sonic youth" is printed on the glasses.

hahah yes, but surely larger boobs would draw more attention to this detail and enlarge it?

not really, ever had a balloon with an image on it, and when u deflate it, the image is more detailed and interesting?

whoa. mind-blowing

Haha, both Glenn Gould and Einstein had teh asparagus. It's like we're a race of superhumans.

cool, we have similar hair i think. whats that sketcher in the back?

now thats just wrong :(

I want that shirt but the cheapest I could find it was like 18 bucks online, not including shipping. Psshhhh.

Psch. You Americans have it too cheap. It's about 94£ for the OBEY shirt I want.

obey who? i obey no one!

btw after reading up i seem to have some asperger's traits-- not too pronounced-- but definitely a lot reminded me of my childhood before i learned to be a proper weasel

I think he is referring to the art of Shepard Fairey.

Obey, rly.


edit: explain what the Shepard Fairey is.

You know, the artist who conceputalized and originated the whole "OBEY GIANT" thing?

Oh fuck! Of course!

*commits hara kiri*

never heard of it

What guitar is that, is it a Gibson? I can't see what it is.

It's a Gibson ES335.

Nice.

We had a Les Paul Custom come into work today and paid $1650Aus for it. I'd really like it, but I just bought a new guitar a few months ago (which I'm realyl happy with), plus it wasn't the most attractive wood grain finish.

man, this picture's awesome.

val-holla-ing you have the best picture of yourself. Aside from cantankerous.

I...feel like being a camera whore...

Nice tshirt !

I love the black sabbath's shirt picture.

A weird one.


One with my father in the photobooth.


Creamfields' style.

Most recent ones-

At the beach, eating a pirulín.


With my sister and Jesus.

The first one is really cute!

i remember now, i had read this like 2 years ago. well my recollection trying to write this paragraph was shitty so i resorted to wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey

cardinal rob - 94 pouns for a tshirt? SUCKA!!!

(could you, you know, make your own?)

[quote=StevOK]I...feel like being a camera whore...

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That bed makes me question your sexuality, or it is your girlfriends? Either way you are good looking.

she's getting cuter by the day

That's my fiancee's room and her clothes. She glammed me up after we watched Velvet Goldmine. That was a fun night. :cool:

Everyone seems to have the pictures taken with their axes so I guess here's me. I was playing with my new tremolo pedal.

is that a Fender bass in the background?

It could be.

But it isn't. The volume knob on it is broken so I can't play it.

I want a rickenbacker...

I was looking at one in the guitar store today. I don't really play bass often but I have contributed some to my dads album and whatnot. I can play 'the burning spear'. :]