"I don’t always have a lot of intonational variation in how I speak – which I’m told makes for great comedy. I’m actually making history tonight as the first person with Asperger’s [syndrome] to host SNL. Or at least the first to admit it.” google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.…
"My very mild Asperger’s has helped me creatively. I sometimes hear a voice and think: “That could be a character I could do.”
"One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement." autism.wikia.org/wiki/Dan_Aykro… h/t Big Tony
"One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement." autism.wikia.org/wiki/Dan_Aykro… h/t Big Tony
3/ "In my opinion, my father [Phil Fisher] suffered from what would have been diagnosed as Asperger’s syndrome. Being a classic Asperger’s case, he was unusual. He liked to be alone and think. He was an Asperger’s guy." thinkadvisor.com/2015/06/02/ken…
4/ Chris Rock has been diagnosed with NVLD, which makes it difficult for him to understand nonverbal signals.
"All I understand are the words. This is really great for writing jokes — just not great for one-on-one relationships." google.com/amp/s/www.toda…
"All I understand are the words. This is really great for writing jokes — just not great for one-on-one relationships." google.com/amp/s/www.toda…
5/ Bill Gross suspected he had Asperger’s only after reading Michael Lewis’ “The Big Short.” It’s allowed me to stay at 30,000 feet as opposed to being on the ground. That’s not necessarily good in terms of one-to-one." google.com/amp/s/www.inve…
6/ Peter Thiel: "So many of the successful companies are formed by people who seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger’s. What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger’s gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
7/ As Michael Burry told Lewis, “Only someone who has Asperger’s would read a subprime-mortgage-bond prospectus.” institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1gq9t…
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