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Autism
Autism is a developmental disorder that manifests itself in the first years of life. Characteristics of this disorder include impaired social interaction, repetitive behavior and delayed language development. Ask questions about disorders in the autism spectrum here.
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What do doctors say about vaccines causing autism?
No they do not. Autism is not a side effect of MMR vaccine.
Information about the Study Showing a Link Between the MMR Vaccine and Autism
Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who controlled the well-known study that claimed a link between autism and vaccinations changed the results of his study for his purposes. The medical records of the children were obtained and evaluated in 2009, and those show results differing from those that Wakefield published. Contrary to what he reported in his study, several of his subjects showed signs of autism before the vaccinations. Also, he had accepted funding prior to beginning the study to prove that the MMR vaccine was harmful, so it was a conflict of interest when he did this study. In addition, his study only involved 12 children, which was too small to prove anything, and the children were not randomly selected, so it was a biased study.
Wakefield's results were already in question because despite removing the mercury from vaccines, autism rates continued to increase. Also, countries that had been using different vaccines and vaccination schedules also had increasing rates of autism. Numerous studies have disproven the conjecture that vaccines cause autism.
Being anti-social is one way to describe the inability to develop social relationships. However, autism is also a condition that prevents the development of social relationships.
What is the actors name that played temple grandin in the movie?
Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an animal medicine researcher, and is noted for her advocacy of animal welfare, and dealing with autism in humans (she suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and persevered in her education despite the challenges).
She created a device called a "hug box" that uses mild pressure to calm agitated autistic children.
What famous people have autism?
Most of the people on the following list are speculated to have Asperger's Syndrome, rather than being confirmed cases of Asperger's Syndrome. Asperger's Syndrome was not included in the World Health Organization's diagnostic manual until 1991, and not in the American Psychiatric Association's manual until 1994. Also, for a number of the people on this list, there are other characteristics evidenced by the people listed that would suggest that they did not have Asperger's Syndrome.
Historical people from earlier periods (died before 1975)- Jane Austen, 1775-1817, English novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice
- Béla Bartók, 1881-1945, Hungarian composer
- Bobby Fischer, 1943-2008, World Chess Champion
- Michelangelo, 1475 1564 - Italian Renissance artist
- Erik Satie, 1866-1925 - Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, German/Viennese composer
- Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Scottish/Canadian/American inventor of the telephone
- Anton Bruckner , 1824-1896, Austrian composer
- Henry Cavendish, 1731-1810, English/French scientist, discovered the composition of air and water
- Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, US poet
- Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, US inventor
- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German/American theoretical physicist
- Seth Engstrom, 1987-Present, Magician and World Champion
- Henry Ford, 1863-1947, US industrialist
- Benjamin Franklin,1706-1790, US polictician/writer
- Kaspar Hauser, c1812-1833, German foundling, portrayed in a film by Werner Herzog
- Oliver Heaviside, 1850-1925, English physicist
- Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, US politician
- Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychoanalyst
- Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Czech writer
- Wasily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, Russian/French painter
- Abraham Lincoln,1809-1865, US Politician
- H P Lovecraft, 1890-1937, US writer
- Ludwig II, 1845-1886, King of Bavaria
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868-1928, Scottish architect and designer
- Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911, Czech/Austrian composer
- Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, US actress
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791, Austrian composer
- Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and physicist
- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher
- Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British logician
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish playwright, writer of Pygmalion, critic and Socialist
- Richard Strauss, 1864-1949, German composer
- Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian/American scientist, engineer, inventor of electric motors
- Henry Thoreau, 1817-1862, US writer
- Alan Turing, 1912-1954, English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptographer
- Mark Twain, 1835-1910, US humorist
- Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter
- George Washington, 1732-1799, US Politician
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Viennese/English logician and philosopher
- Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, English Writer
- Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, Russian/US writer on science and of science fiction, author of Bicentennial Man
- Hans Asperger, 1906-1980, Austrian paediatric doctor after whom Asperger's Syndrom is named
- John Denver, 1943-1997, US musician
- Glenn Gould, 1932-1982, Canadian pianist
- Jim Henson, 1936-1990, creator of the Muppets, US puppeteer, writer, producer, director, composer
- Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, English/American film director
- Howard Hughes, 1905-1976, US billionaire
- Andy Kaufman, 1949-1984, US comedian, subject of the film Man on the Moon
- L S Lowry, 1887-1976, English painter of "matchstick men"
- Charles Schulz, 1922-2000, US cartoonist and creator of Peanuts and Charlie Brown
- Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, US artist
- Tony Benn, 1925-, English Labour politician
- Pip Brown "Ladyhawke", 1979-, New Zealand Singer/Songwriter, Musician
- Charles Dickinson, 1951, US Writer
- Bob Dylan, 1941-, US singer-songwriter
- Joseph Erber, 1985-, young English composer/musician who has Asperger's Syndrome, subject of a BBC TV documentary
- Bill Gates, 1955-, US global monopolist
- Genie, 1957-?, US "wild child" (see also L'Enfant Sauvage, Victor, )
- Crispin Glover, 1964-, US actor
- Al Gore, 1948-, former US Vice President and presidential candidate
- Jeff Greenfield, 1943-, US political analyst/speechwriter, a political wonk
- David Helfgott, 1947-, Australian pianist, subject of the film Shine
- Garrison Keillor, 1942-, US writer, humorist and host of Prairie Home Companion
- Paul Kostabi 1962-, writer, comedian, artist, producer, technician
- Kevin Mitnick, 1963-, US "hacker"
- John Motson, 1945-, English sports commentator
- John Nash, 1928-, US mathematician (portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, USA 2001)
- Keith Olbermann, 1959-, US sportscaster
- Michael Palin, 1943-, English comedian and presenter
- Oliver Sacks, 1933-, UK/US neurologist, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings
- James Taylor, 1948-, US singer/songwriter
- Robin Williams, 1951-, US Actor
- Jamie Hyneman, 1956-, Co-host of Mythbusters
- Seth Engstrom, 1987-, Magician and World Champion in Sleight of Hand. The best man with a deck of cards that the world has ever seen.
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Richard Pearse (First to fly a plane),
Dr Janet Frame (Famed Authoress),
Charles de Gaulle (Great French warzhyphenztime/peacezhyphenztime leader/President),
T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (British leader of Arab Revolt against Turks),
Captain Matthew Webb (First to swim the English Channel),
Satoshi Tajiri (Pokemon Inventor - formal diagnosis),
Dan Aykroyd (Leading Musician/Comedian, Blues Bros - formal diagnosis?),
Alfred Hitchcock (Horror-movie Sub-genre Creator),
Bobby Fischer (Greatest Chess Player Ever),
Daniel Tammet (Smartest Man Alive Today - formal diagnosis),
Les Murray (Greatest Living English Writer/Poet Alive - self diagnosis),
Gary Numan (Greatest Industrial Synch-pop Musician Ever),
Craig Nicholls (Lead singer of top Australian group The Vines - formal diagnosis).
Comment:
I do not believe that Les Murray has any formal diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. He does have a formal diagnosis of depression, and has self-identified as autistic, and does have a close relative with a formal diagnosis of autism. Can you back up the above claim with any published references?
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Sorry, quite correct...
Les Murray wrote an amazing poem AFTER his self discoveryre Aspergers...
"I very much wanted to ask him about his self-diagnosisof Asperger's Syndrome, but he hadn't publicly read the poem (which plays upon the phrase from the opening line of the old Latin Catholic Mass, Asperges me hyssopo, [Sprinkle me with a Hyssop branch], where Murray transmutes it to Aspergers me, and ends on such a wry note with "Hyssop is a bitter herb"), so it seemed too personal to ush the question succinctly." [Peter Craven, The Monthly]
Further Audio comment from a podcast (skip 1st 3 minutes) featuring Les talking about his 'mild' Autism and a case of Autism per se in his family is at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2006/1634867.htm
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The best place that I know of to look for information about famous people and Asperger syndrome is the list maintained at the blog Incorrect Pleasures (Google it). It is a big and diverse list of famous people backed up with referencesto published or mass-media sources that are generally produced by professional journalists, authors, psychologists or psychiatrists, including book biographies, journalistic interviews, scholarly and medical journal papers, famous people's own blogs, and books specifically about famous people and Asperger syndrome. There's even a reference to a poem in which a famous poet identified himself with Asperger syndrome, and the details of a YouTube video of another famous person filmed rocking in a very autistic manner. Many of the journal papers and other resources linked to and listed at this list are freely available to read or view or listen to through the internet. The list at Incorrect Pleasures is based on references that meet a higher standard than the one set for the Wikipedia, which often accepts trashy, misspelt and anonymous bits of writing that can only be found on the internet, or dead links, as documentary evidence to back up claims made on the Wikipedia. Every effort has been made to avoid nationalistic and other types of bias in the compilation of this list. The list is not dominated by American names or consicuously geeky scientists and mathematicians.
One word of caution, though - only very few of the famous people in the list at Incorrect Pleasures have been given a formal diagnosis of autism or Asperger syndrome during their lifetime, as adults. Many famous people have been posthumously diagnosed, and the list also includes a few living people who claim to have been clinically labelled as autistic when they were children. There is also quite a collection of famous people, including one Nobel Prize winner, who claim to be themselves currently autistic, to varying degrees. Rock star Craig Nicholls was formally diagnosed by a Dr Attwood in 2004 in Australia. Fields Medallist Prof. R. Borcherds was sorta-kinda diagnosed by Prof. Baron-Cohen, and this diagnostic process was described in detail in a popular science book. See the list at the blog Incorrect Pleasures for more details. Below is a very rudimentary list of the names listed at Incorrect Pleasures:
John Couch Adams
Joy Adamson
Hans Christian Andersen
Sherwood Anderson
Archimedes of Syracuse
Hans Asperger
Julian Assange
W. H. Auden
Sir A.J. Ayer
Dan Aykroyd CM
Charles Babbage FRS
Stefan Banach
Syd Barrett / Roger Barrett
Béla Bártok
Daisy Bates
Samuel Beckett
Ludwig van Beethoven
David Bellamy OBE
Jeremy Bentham
Richard Borcherds
Robert Boyle
Gordon Brown
Anton Bruckner
Warren Buffett
Tim Burton
David Byrne
Lewis Carroll
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Henry Cavendish
King Charles XII of Sweden
Bruce Chatwin
Bram Cohen
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Marie Curie
Helen Dale / Darville / Demidenko
Henry Darger
Charles Darwin
"Dibs"
Emily Dickinson
Paul Dirac OM FRS
Greg Egan
Albert Einstein FRS
Robert Emmet
Paul Erdos
Robert "Bobby" Fischer
Tim Fischer AC FTSE
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS
Henry Ford
Janet Frame ONZ CBE
Rosalind Franklin
Evariste Galois
Bill Gates
Antoni Gaudi
Charles de Gaulle
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Kurt Godel
Major-General Charles George Gordon CB
Glenn Gould
Temple Grandin
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Daryl Hannah
G. H. Hardy
John Hartford
Hermann Hesse
Patricia Highsmith
David Hilbert
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Edward Hopper
John Howard (1726-1790)
Peter Howson
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Irene Joliot-Curie
Sir Keith Joseph CH PC
James Joyce
Wassily Kandinsky
Leo Kanner
Immanuel Kant
Andy Kaufman
Alfred Kinsey
Stanley Kubrick
Ladyhawke / Pip Brown
Paul Laffoley
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Oscar Levant
Charles Lindbergh
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Deborah Locke
Courtney Love
H. P Lovecraft
L.S. Lowry
James Clerk Maxwell FRS
Darius McCollum
Herman Melville
Gregor Mendel
Michelangelo
Reg Mombassa / Christopher O'Doherty
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG GCB DSO PC
Caiseal Mor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Les Murray
John F. Nash Jr.
Craig Newmark
Sir Isaac Newton FRS
Craig Nicholls
Nico / Christa Paffgen
Moe Norman
Gary Numan
George Orwell
Patrick Pearse
Grigori Perelman
King Philip II of Spain
Henri Poincare
Enoch Powell MBE
Willard Van Orman Quine
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Charles Richter
Bernhard Riemann
Paul Robeson
Peter Mark Roget FRS
Bertrand Russell
Carl Sagan
Erik Satie
Solomon Shereshevskii
William Shockley
Boris Sidis
William James Sidis
Adam Smith
Vernon L. Smith
Socrates
Spinoza
Richard Stallman
Lawrence Summers
Screaming Lord Sutch / David Sutch
Jonathan Swift
Satoshi Tajiri
Daniel Tammet
Nikola Tesla
Henry David Thoreau
Alan Turing
J. M. W. Turner
Maurice Utrillo
Eamon de Valera
Michael Ventris
Louis Wain
Robert Walser
Andy Warhol
John B. Watson
Simone Weil
Orson Welles
Herbert G. Wells
Opal Whiteley
Norbert Wiener
Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jack B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Bill Gates
If you are also interested in famous people who have or might have had synesthesia/synaesthesia, there is also a list of famous synaesthetes at the Incorrect Pleasures blog.
No, Johnny Depp is not autistic, or at least he has not publically identified himself as autistic. He doesn't show any obvious signs of being autistic either.
What actors have Asperger's Syndrome?
I don't know too many but guranteed muscians with Asperger's are Micheal Jackson and Ludwing van Beethoven. I think Serj Tankian from System of a Down shows some signs of it (great style of his music, excellent poet, etc.)
Comment:Michael Jackson was never diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Ludwig van Beethoven lived before Asperger's Syndrome was recognized as a condition, so we do not know if he had it, although some people speculate that he did. Some people with Asperger's Syndrome are exceptional at music, while other are not. Musical talent does not indicate Asperger's Syndrome.What are the similarities between autism and Asperger's Syndrome?
Well to clarify, Asperger's Syndrome is within the Autism Spectrum Disorders. So it would help if you were more specific. But Asperger's Syndrome is classified as High Functioning Autism. Symptoms are commonly associated with social dysfunctions and antisocial behavior. Children with AS tend to be smart and have similar symptoms to that of OCD (obsessive Compulsive Disorder), having an ability to "zero in" on specific topics and often repeating speech and behavior.
Autism, or the most common form associated in the media, is defined by the ASFA as:
A complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first two years of life and is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of the brain, impacting development in the areas of social interaction and communication skills. Both children and adults on the autism spectrum typically show difficulties in verbal and non-verbal communication, social interactions, and leisure or play activities.
Autism is one of five disorders that fall under the umbrella of Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), a category of neurological disorders characterized by "severe and pervasive impairment in several areas of development." (Copied from http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_whatis)
All of the disorders within the Spectrum have symptoms of social dysfunction of one degree or another. Whether it is lack of speech or general communication or inability to understand social cues.
What are songs that deal with autism?
All He Has To Say (Autism Song) by Aika Hirahara
Visit http://www.allhehastosay.com or iTunes for more information.
Why Me? by Joe LaPaglia This song can be found on iTunes, Amazon.com and other online music stores. There is also a video on youtube. It is a song from the perspective of a mother who has just learned her son has autism.
AutismLyrics.com A collection of autism songs and lyrics about autism.
Visit http://www.autismlyrics.com for more information.
No. There is not public information that any of the Gosselin children might be on the Autism spectrum.
Every child develops differently, and goes through different stages of development. A few brief seconds on a television show does not represent who they are all the time.
August 2016 stories did come out in the tabloids about Joel's brother Collin attending a different school to meet his special needs. However there is only one brief statement from Kate Gosselin on the situation. Families deal with challenges differently, as the family reality show highlights.. they might have been born at the same time but each child is an individual.
Does Woody Allen have Asperger's Syndrome?
It's conceivable. He doesn't seem to have interests other than baseball and music. And I'd imagine that someone who does have Asperger's would want to pretend to be confident and flirty in movies like he does.
Do any famous people have autism?
There are several Autistic people who are famous, and who are open about being Autistic.
Courtney Love, Dan Aykroyd, and Daryl Hannah are some of the better known Autistic people. It is very likely that there are other famous Autistic people, especially in the arts, but often people go undiagnosed or will hide their diagnosis because of prejudice against Autistic people.
Did Jett Travolta have autism?
Judged from photographs and magazine articles- yes. Mr. Travolta admitted his son was (Non-Verbal). How on earth could you call a kid ( Jett) Jet (note spellling) is a type of airplane or also a water jet, a jet of gas, a type of Coal ( and a popular Black Magazine- when I was a kid I mistakenly thought (Jet) was an aircraft magazine! Misled by the title. It is certainly not a Christian name. Look at the photos , the guy looks like he is not hitting on all four, afterburner clearly disengaged! not to make light out of such a sad thing, but could a normal kid fall deliberately or otherwise in a bathtub at l6 ?
Can an underage child with autism stay home alone in the state of Florida?
No, an underage child with autism cannot stay home alone in the state of Florida.
It doesn't matter whether the child is autistic or not, if they are underage then they cannot stay home alone. Leaving the child alone would be illegal and they may get into trouble while alone.
Did Marilyn Monroe have Asperger's Syndrome?
No, there's no evidence of Marilyn Monroe being Autistic.
At the time of Marilyn Monroe's life Autism as a diagnosis was barely formed and certainly she'd not have received diagnosis - if she was Autistic her symptoms were not severe enough for a diagnosis at that point in time, and Autism was still thought of as a 'male' disorder so up until the 1990's very few women were diagnosed as Autistic. Even when looking at retrospective diagnosis there's little to nothing to suggest that she was Autistic - although in females it is much harder to diagnose.
Marilyn Monroe had multiple mental health issues - anxiety, depression, mild acrophobia, and possible personality disorders (as you'd expect from someone who basically lived as her alter-ego!). Also as someone with a history of sexual and physical abuse in her childhood there may have been additional mental health concerns, certainly this was one explanation into her severe insomnia and there are multiple health issues related to insomnia including unusual behaviour.
if somebody has not yet been able to develop a form of communication it could lead them to feel inadiquate frustrated and angry which could lead to severe challanging behaviour, or feeling withdrawn
If Obama forms a draft will the autistic people be forced into the military as well?
There is ALREADY a "draft" in place; it's called the Selective Service system, and it's been around since before World War II. At age 18, all males are required to register with Selective Service. Since women are not required to register, this is rank sexism.
There have been no men actually drafted into the military since the late 1970's, and there is precisely zero chance (barring a major attack on the US and an actual declaration of war against an enemy) that anybody will ever be drafted again. The military hates the very thought of a draft; people who would have to be forced to fight don't make good soldiers. And in the modern military, everybody is a volunteer, and there are more volunteers than they can actually take.
When registered, all men are evaluated for their physical and mental fitness for military service. Autistic men would be as "4F", not physically qualified for military service.
Do children with autism get social security disability?
Autism is a spectrum disorder. A few people on the extreme end of the autism scale qualify for SSDI or other governmental programs. The great majority of children or adults with autism spectrum disorder do not receive any support.
How prevalent is Rett syndrome in the population?
According to Chuck CurleyExecutive Director of IRSF (International Rett Syndrome Foundation) in 2007 there were nearly 4000 known cases of Rett Syndrome in the United states. DR Helen Leonard, a disability researcher from Australia's Institute for Child Health Research has collected info on the rett girls and the populations vary from country to country . Her international database, InterRett, though has collected numerous cases of Rett Syndrome. As of September 2008, InterRett had ascertained 1691 cases of Rett syndrome. These cases came from 39 different countries, with the largest proportion coming from Australia (21% ), Spain (21%), USA (18%), France (13%), Israel (5%), China (5%) and the UK (5%). Total actual number of girls per population is unknown but estimated at 1 per 10,000 to 23,000 depending on country.
Yes, juveniles and minors, can go to jail, only they aren't called jails they have 'nicer- sounding' names like "detention facility" - "juvenile hall" - "juvenile home" - etc.
