I want to share popular person that have autism to give hopes and inspirations to every parent who feels hopeless. For those who have autistic son or daughter, don’t lose hope, there is a bright future ahead, just give them all the love and support they need.
The following are the famous persons and celebrities that have autism:
1. Albert Einstein
According to researchers at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Einstein is suffering a form of autism called Asperger Syndrome. An individual with Asperger Syndrome has lack of social skills and difficulty in communication but obsessed with complex topic. During early age, Einstein was a loner and often repeated sentences obsessively.
2. Isaac Newton
Other scientist that displayed Asperger Syndrome was Isaac Newton who discovered the law of gravity. Newton has a difficult in making friends and was very quiet. He hardly focused on his work that he forgot to eat.
3. Thomas Jefferson
He is the third President and the writer of Declaration of Independence. It indicates the Jefferson is very shy and inability to relate to others and have difficulty in public speaking and very sensitive to load noises.
4. Charles Darwin
He is best known as naturalist and geologist and a developer of a theory of evolution that explain biological change. He avoided interaction with people especially the face to face communication. He collected things and very intrigued with chemistry and gadgets and he was very visual thinker.
5. Daryl Hannah
She is the star of a film “Splash, Blade Runner, and Steel Magnolias. She admits about her childhood diagnosis of autism and that time there is no diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome. As a child, she is very shy and she rocked to self-sooth. She also refused to give interviews and attend to her own movie premiers.
6. Courtney Love
She is a great musician and singer and she was diagnosed as mildly autistic as a child. She said that she has lack of social skills and she learned them while going gay club with friends.
7. John Couch Adams
He is a professor at Cambridge and known as greatest mathematical astronomer. His greatest achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.
8. Temple Grandin
He is considers one of the famous writer. As a child, he was diagnosed of autism and later on as adult, diagnosed Asperger Syndrome.
9. Adam Smith
He is Scottish pioneer of political economics, moral philosopher and professor. Also, he is known as father of modern economics.
10. Charles Richter
He is an American seismologist and creates the Magnitude Scale to quantify earthquake and he is able to read and speak many different languages.
There are thousand of people who diagnosed autism aside from the listed above and they was able to cope up and beat the autism through proper therapy and early intervention program. Let us accept and love our children whatever they are.