I believe that some (long dead) highly creative scientists may have been 'on the spectrum'.. Any ideas of what one might look for in their writings, or in reports of their lives?
Dear Patrick,
The nearest thing I can think of is an analysis of Faraday's journal that concluded that he was dyslexic:
West, T. G. (1992) A future of reversals: Dyslexic talents in a world of computer visualization. Annals of Dyslexia, 42(1), pp. 124-139.
I think learning differences are more likely to be expressed in personal writing, such as a journal, but they may be hard to identify with any level of certainty.
Hans Asperger said in one of his comment:
“It seems that for success
in science and art,
a dash of autism is essential.”
have often been invited to speak on this subject in order to set the record straight here is my conclusion not all genius people have autism or Asperger's syndrome and not all people who have autism or Asperger's syndrome are geniuses. in addition autism or Asperger syndrome may offer some predispositions in Art and science but in the end it is always a matter of identifying those predispositions and then nurture them, with a lot of work What I don't like about Michael Fitzgerals approach is that he and his team identify too many post mortem Autisme or Asperger's syndrom While it is not always easy to diagnose autisme or asperger's syndrom it seems to me unrealistic to rely upon second hand stories. I'd prefer to look at Darold Treffert's books like "Islands of Genius or self account stories written by Temple Grandin "The autistic Brain" and also gunilla Gerland's book 's""A real person"
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