Aspies For Freedom

This is another book from Jessica Kingsley Publishers, the publisher of the recent book about famous aspies in the arts and humanities by Prof. Michael Fitzgerald.

The details of this book are:

Asperger Syndrome and High Achievement
Some Very Remarkable People
by Ioan JamesPaperback 1-84310-388-5, Nov 2005, 240 pages, £13.99 $19.95

I recall that Ioan James wrote a piece with Baron-Cohen about Einstein and Newton being possibly on the spectrum.

http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book.php/is...4310-388-5

Here's the list of famous names covered in this book. There is quite a bit of overlap with Fitzgerald's book. I remember a member of Aspergian Island was arguing months ago that Kinsey could have been an aspie. This author apparently agrees. The John Howard isn't the Australian Prime Minister. Wouldn't it be fun to have an aspie PM? If my husband was PM it would be a strange country indeed!

Michelangelo Buonarroti
Philip of Spain
Isaac Newton
Jonathan Swift
John Howard (c.1726–1790)
Henry Cavendish
Thomas Jefferson
Vincent van Gogh
Erik Satie
Bertrand Russell
Albert Einstein
Béla Bartók
Ramanujan
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Alfred Kinsey
Simone Weil
Alan Turig
Patricia Highsmith
Andy Warhol
Glenn Gould

If anyone has been able to purchase recent releases of Jessic Kingsley Publishers at a reasonable price in Australia, I'd like to know how. I have found that trying to order single copies of their new books can be very expensive from where I live.

Bob Dylan isn't mentioned in this book, but I have read that he has been identified as a possible aspie somewhere. I just saw a current affairs TV report about some new Bob Dylan documentary, and I saw a snippet of Bob rocking, and I don't mean the rock and roll type of rocking. Is it socially acceptable for Jews to rock like that? I know the orthodox ones do a lot of rocking at some holy site in the middle East. Do less conservative ones in the US do it too?

I have heard the same of Bob Dylan.

AFAIK the rocking is done at the wailing wall, and its a form of praying.

Apologies if the location is incorrect.

I believe one of the main things that made Bob Dylan such a pioneer in music was the way he innovated in the kind of lyrics that were used in rock music. Apparently before Bob rock music lyrics were generally dumb and sentimental and superficial.

Morrissey of the Smiths fame is also known for doing a similar thing with pop/rock music. Morrissey pushed the limits of what is acceptable in pop music lyrics with his many hilariously cruel or confrontingly gloomy words in tunes such as "Heaven knows I'm miserable now" and "Frankly Mr Shankley" and "Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me".

I have seen suggestions that Morrissey might be an aspie in a couple of places, and apparently the same question has been asked about Dylan. I think it would be very interesting if this was all true. It's a very aspie thing to push the boundaries of appropriateness in what you can or can't say. :lol:

As it is today I find.

I happen to believe some of the most evil people in history were aspies.  One of these is Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's deputy and Reichsfuhrer of the SS.  I've read lots of accounts which describe him as pedantic more than anything else.  Here is brief description of him:

Another historically famous person I believe was an aspie is the late emperor of Japan, Hirohito.  He too spoke in a very pedantic manner and with a very unusual tone of voice.  I was born in Japan so I've seen old films of him talking.