08-02-2006, 01:13 PM
Was this person an Aspie? Steve Clark, guitarist for Def Leppard, deceased.
It seems he just was interested in playing the guitar and doing cross work puzzles. He was also an alcoholic. He died in 1991.
He was described as shy but really very funny when people got to know him. He was at one point diagnosed with bi-polar but somehow I do not think it fit him. Some people who knew him do not think that diagnosis fit.
see articles at http://www.deflepparduk.com/steveint8.html
http://www.deflepparduk.com/steveint7.html
http://www.deflepparduk.com/steveint6.html
I am not sure why I want to know if he really had Asperger's Syndrome Disorder. He was a gifted musician and performer. I met him and he told me that he had Asperger's. He was actually surprised when I told that I had it too. He had never met a woman with AS.
If you read the articles, there are a few remarks that make me want to think that he had Asperger's. He would see himself on video and say that wasn't really him. In the last few years of his life he was very unhappy. Paranoia can come from cocaine use but it can also come from Asperger's. He was taking anti-depressants, pain killers (for broken ribs) and valium when he died.
this has been edited since the original posting since people are questioning his diagnosis with autism. Strange how no one will dispute that he drank himself to death but no one cannot accept that he had autism.
It seems he just was interested in playing the guitar and doing cross work puzzles. He was also an alcoholic. He died in 1991.
He was described as shy but really very funny when people got to know him. He was at one point diagnosed with bi-polar but somehow I do not think it fit him. Some people who knew him do not think that diagnosis fit.
see articles at http://www.deflepparduk.com/steveint8.html
http://www.deflepparduk.com/steveint7.html
http://www.deflepparduk.com/steveint6.html
I am not sure why I want to know if he really had Asperger's Syndrome Disorder. He was a gifted musician and performer. I met him and he told me that he had Asperger's. He was actually surprised when I told that I had it too. He had never met a woman with AS.
If you read the articles, there are a few remarks that make me want to think that he had Asperger's. He would see himself on video and say that wasn't really him. In the last few years of his life he was very unhappy. Paranoia can come from cocaine use but it can also come from Asperger's. He was taking anti-depressants, pain killers (for broken ribs) and valium when he died.
this has been edited since the original posting since people are questioning his diagnosis with autism. Strange how no one will dispute that he drank himself to death but no one cannot accept that he had autism.