Autism Awareness Month Comes To A Close

As this month is coming to a close, I would like to point out a few "famous" people who are SOMEWHERE on the autism spectrum:

Famous 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.

• Daryl Hannah, an American actress best known for her roles in Splash, Blade Runner and Kill Bill was diagnosed as a child as being 'borderline autistic'
• Christopher Knowles, American poet
• Matthew Laborteaux, actor on Little House on the Prairie
• Katherine McCarron, autistic child allegedly murdered at the age of three by her mother, Karen McCarron.
• Jason McElwain, high school basketball player
• Michael Moon, adopted son of author Elizabeth Moon
• Jasmine O'Neill, author of Through the Eyes of Aliens
• Sue Rubin, subject of documentary Autism Is a World. Sue Rubin has no oral speech but does communicate with facilitated communication.
• Birger Sellin, author from Germany,
• Robert Gagno, actor from Vancouver,

Famous people with Asperger syndrome

• Dan Aykroyd, comedian and actor: Aykroyd stated he has Asperger's, but some feel he was joking.
• Richard Borcherds, mathematician specializing in group theory and Lie algebras
• William Cottrell, student who was sentenced to eight years in jail for fire-bombing SUV dealerships
• Craig Nicholls, frontman of the band The Vines
• Gary Numan, British singer and songwriter
• Dawn Prince-Hughes, PhD, primate anthropologist, ethologist, and author of Songs for the Gorilla Nation
• Judy Singer, Australian disability rights activist
• Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economics
• Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon
• Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant, believed to have Asperger Syndrome
• Liane Holliday Willey, author of Pretending to be Normal, Asperger Syndrome in the Family; Asperger syndrome advocate; education professor; and adult diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at age 35

People with high-functioning autism

• Michelle Dawson, autism researcher and autism rights activist who has made ethical challenges to Applied Behavior Analysis
• Temple Grandin, a designer of humane food animal handling systems.
• Hikari Oe, Japanese composer
• Bhumi Jensen, Thai prince, grandson of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand; killed by drowning in the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
• Dylan Scott Pierce, wildlife illustrator
• Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist
• Donna Williams, Australian author of Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere; after testing for deafness in late childhood, and being labelled 'disturbed', Donna was formally diagnosed as autistic in her 20s
• Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist
• Axel Brauns, German author of the autobiographical bestseller Buntschatten und Fledermäuse and filmmaker
  

Also, Don't forget some of the MOST famous ones:

Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson, Beethoven, Thomas Edison, Mozart, Van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, Issac Newton,George Bernard Shaw,Henry Ford

Just to name a few!!