List of people on the autistic spectrum
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This is a list of noteworthy people known to have a condition on the autistic spectrum.
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[edit] People with unspecified forms of autism
The following people have been diagnosed as being somewhere on the autistic spectrum but the specific classification is unknown.
- Christopher Knowles, American poet [1]
- Katherine McCarron, autistic child murdered at the age of three by her mother, Karen McCarron. [2]
- Jason McElwain, high school basketball player [3]
- Michael Moon, adopted son of author Elizabeth Moon [4]
- Abubakar Tariq Nadama [5]
- Jasmine O'Neill, author of Through the Eyes of Aliens [6]
- Sue Rubin, subject of documentary Autism Is a World; Sue Rubin has no oral speech but does communicate with facilitated communication [7]
- Birger Sellin, author from Germany [8]
- Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant, believed to have Asperger Syndrome [9]
[edit] People with Asperger syndrome
- Nikki Bacharach, daughter of composer Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson; committed suicide on January 4, 2007 [10]
- William Cottrell, student who was sentenced to eight years in jail for fire-bombing SUV dealerships [11]
- Luke Jackson, author of Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence [12]
- Craig Nicholls, frontman of the Australian garage rock band The Vines [13]
- Gary Numan, British singer and songwriter [14]
- Dawn Prince-Hughes, PhD, primate anthropologist, ethologist, and author of Songs for the Gorilla Nation [15]
- Judy Singer, Australian disability rights activist [16]
- Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economics [17]
- Satoshi Tajiri, creator and designer of Pocket Monsters/Pokémon [18]
- Liane Holliday Willey, author of Pretending to be Normal, Asperger Syndrome in the Family [19]
[edit] People with high-functioning autism
- Michelle Dawson, autism researcher and autism rights activist who has made ethical challenges to Applied Behavior Analysis [20]
- Temple Grandin, a designer of humane food animal handling systems. [21]
- Hikari Oe, Japanese composer [22]
- Bhumi Jensen, Thai prince, grandson of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand; killed by drowning in the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake [23]
- Dylan Scott Pierce, wildlife illustrator [24]
- Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist [25]
- Donna Williams, Australian author of Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere; after testing for deafness from infancy until late childhood, and labeled psychotic and 'disturbed', Donna was formally diagnosed as autistic in her 20s with an IQ score under 80 (not technically in the HFA range) in spite of achieving a higher education. [26] .
- Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist [27]
- Caiseal Mor author of A Blessing and a Curse: Autism and Me; bestselling fantasy fiction author, musician and artist [28]
[edit] Autistic savants
- Alonzo Clemons, American clay sculptor [29]
- Tony DeBlois, blind American musician [30]
- Leslie Lemke, blind American musician [31]
- Jonathan Lerman, American artist [32]
- Thristan Mendoza, Filipino marimba prodigy [33]
- Derek Paravicini, blind British musician [34]
- James Henry Pullen, gifted British carpenter [35]
- Matt Savage, U.S. autistic jazz prodigy [36]
- Henriett Seth-F., Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer and artist [37]
[edit] People with severe autism
- Tito Mukhopadhyay, author, poet and philosopher [38]
- Lucy Blackman, university educated autistic author [39]
- Larry Bissonette , accomplished international autistic artist. [40]
- Amanda Baggs, advocate of rights for autistic people. [41]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Christopher Knowles at Gavin Brown, Art in America [1] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Death Ruled A Homicide, Week.com [2] {accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Autistic Teen's Hoop Dreams Come True, cbsnews.com [3] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Autism: Past, Present, Future, Speculative, Elizabeth Moon [4] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1751753,00.html Accessed: 6 January 2007
- ^ A Place for All, Jasmine Lee O'Neill [5] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ The Internet Movie Database [6], (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Sellin, Birger. I Don't Want to Be Inside Me Anymore: Messages from Autistic Mind
- ^ A genius explains, Guardian.co.uk [7] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Bacharach daughter kills herself, BBC.co.uk [8] (accessed January 6, 2007
- ^ Calif. student gets 8 years for SUV vandalism, Reuters [9] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Special children review accessed 28 March 2007)
- ^ Stop making sense, Guardian.co.uk [10] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Gary Numan: It’s Easy to be Happy When You’re Financially Secure, www.trackitdown.net [11] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Dawn Prince-Hughes's Asperger diagnosis is described on pages 173-175 of Songs of the Gorilla Nation, by Dawn Prince-Hughes
- ^ ASpar Home [12] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Mild autism has 'selective advantages', CNBC [13] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ A Salute to Japanese Game Designers, Ampednews.com [14] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger’s Syndrome, Liane Holliday Willey (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999)
- ^ No Autistics Allowed, Michelle Dawson [15] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Emergence: Labeled Autistic, Temple Grandin with Margaret Scariano, 1986, updated 1991), ISBN 0-446-67182-7
- ^ The Music of Light: The Extraordinary Story of Hikari and Kenzaburo Oe, Lindsley Cameron (Simon & Schuster, 1998). ISBN 0-684-82409-4
- ^ Remembering Khun Poom, Just PK [16] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Channel One Highlights Newsmakers for the Week of December 12, 2005, Business Wire [17] (accessed June 14, 2006)
- ^ Why I dislike "person first" language, Jim Sinclair [18] (accessed June 13, 2006)
- ^ Somebody Somewhere and Autism: An Inside-Out Approach, Donna Williams
- ^ Official site [19] (accessed 14 June 2006)
- ^ A Blessing and a Curse: Autism and Me, Caiseal Mor (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007)
- ^ www.artsales.com[20] ((accessed 14 June 2006)
- ^ Official site [21] (accessed June 14, 2006)
- ^ Leslie Lemke: An Inspirational Performance, Darold Treffert, MD [22] (accessed 14 June 2006)
- ^ Jonathan Lerman: The Drawings of a Boy with Autism, George Braziller (2002)
- ^ Thristan "Tum-Tum" Mendoza, Darold Treffert, MD [23] (accessed 14 June 2006)
- ^ Derek Paravicini, Darold Treffert, MD [24] (accessed 14 June 2006)
- ^ The childhood and the life of James Henry Pullen, the victorian idiot savant (1832–1916), O. Conor Ward. Abstract of article found here [25] (accessed 14 June 2006)
- ^ The Prodigy, People Magazine June 17, 2002. Article found here [26]
- ^ Official site [27] (accessed 14 June 2006)
- ^ Boy Sheds Light on Autism Mysteries, ABC news [28] (accessed 14 June 2006)
- ^ "Lucy's Story", Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 ISBN 1843100428
- ^ http://www.taaproject.com/artwork.cfm?artistid=2
- ^ http://www.gettingthetruthout.org/
[edit] See also
Diagnoses
Autism | Asperger syndrome | Semantic Pragmatic Disorder | Hyperlexia | Autistic enterocolitis | Childhood disintegrative disorder | Conditions comorbid to autism | Fragile X syndrome
Rett syndrome | PDD-NOS | Sensory Integration Dysfunction | Multiple-complex Developmental Disorder
Andrew Wakefield | Incidence | Autism rights movement | Biomedical intervention | Causes | Chelation
Generation Rescue | Heritability | Neurodiversity | Refrigerator mother | Therapies
