Celebrities who are probably in the spectrum

UGH. *on the spectrum

Crispin Glover

Joaquin Phoenix

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Gary Busey - Lana Del Rey - Ben Shapiro - Kanye West - Corey Feldman

Who dat r3

Too many to list.

Those who aren't on the spectrum, have admitted to having ADHD and depression, such as crazy-eyed Riz Ahmed. He's a mess. Not sure if he's still on his meds.

Ryan Lochknee

R3 is Paddy Considine.

How do you know?

R6 looks a bit like a crazed Frankie Grande.

Tim Burton.

I once ran across a Tim Burton fangirl online, and was astonished to find that Tim Burton could have a fangirl! I was even more astonished when she said "Oh, everyone in the fandom knows that Burton is on the spectrum, look at any interview with him and the symptoms are obvious" (paraphrase).

You were astonished to find out that Tim Burton had a following? Where've you been since the 90s?

Kanye is stone cold crazy!

Courtney Love is on the spectrum. She has claimed that she was diagnosed as "probable autistic" at a young age, and that she hardly spoke until she was around 8 years old. A lot of her detractors try to claim that she's fabricated this as part of her "story," but I find it an odd thing to make up. She exhibits several signs of being on the spectrum, and it also partly explains her drug use (many people who are on the spectrum self-medicate). You can see her rocking back and forth throughout this interview, which is a telltale sign of being on the autism spectrum.

Courtney's just a media whore. And a whore.

Pete Buttigeig

Was this inspired by the Rosie O'Donnell thread?

R4 Gary Busey had traumatic brain injury resulting from a motorcycle accident. His behavior was totally different before the accident.

Henry Cavill has very little affect and mostly speaks in a monotone. He doesn't seem to have interpersonal skills. Case in point. . .

R19 Will have to disagree there . I think it's more likely he has social anxiety ... especially around other men.

Aubrey Plaza

Dan Aykroyd and Gary Numan are known in the neurodivergent community for being on the spectrum.

[quote]Will have to disagree there . I think it's more likely he has social anxiety ... especially around other men.

How do you explain this?

I [italic]am[/italic] the spectrum!

Rami Malek!

John Travolta owns this thread. I don't think it's a coincidence that his late son was autistic.

Liza!

Carly Simon

Judy Davis is something, perhaps bipolar? Geoffrey Rush?

Brian J Smith

R23 alchahol temporarily cures social anxiety buddy

Juliette Lewis

David Lynch

Benedict Cumbersnatch

Benedict Cumbersnatch

Donald Trump

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Karen Carpenter.

Pete Buttigieg is just a common or garden nerd, R16. An exceptionally bright one, which is why he could learn all those languages, but not an especially socially impaired one.

R29, Geoffrey Rush is quite outgoing in life, so I doubt it. Agree Judy Davis probably has something classifiable, but so little is ever seen of her that it's impossible to speculate what. She's certainly intensely shy (but also intensely everything).

Brian May... Asperger's?

Bill Gates - There was a video of him in the 90s, addressing executives in a meeting, and he was rocking rhythmically in a way that was reminiscent of autistic children.

Aubrey Plaza's space case personality on TV chat shows is just her "persona". I've interviewed her and she's not that way at all in real life.

She's sharp, smart, and a bit...bitchy isn't the right word but she can be a bit...snippy? Sharp tongued?

She's no airhead.

Cavill is just a hunk with no personality. Most of them are.

Sardonic R42?

Henry Cavill and his try-hard ass.

“Harmony Korine” is a celebrity?

David Byrne of Talking Heads

R46 He's been written up in gossip columns and used to be a regular on Letterman.

Stanley Kubrick

Darryl Hannah is autistic

Vincent D'Onofrio is on the spectrum too

I met Steven Seagall (dickhead) and suspect he's on the spectrum too.

Many of these people (and people in general who try to claim they're 'on the spectrum') aren't actually autistic.

Many of them are just narcissists and many of them are just stupid and quite a few of them are just assholes trying to hide underneath the "spectrum" of being "special".

Same thing with all these helicopter moms claiming their precious offspring are autistic when many of them are just not particularly bright and/or poorly behaved. Mommy can't admit to that so they seek out a scapegoat...like vaccines.

R51 Remember the "Indio Children" trend of the 2000s?

Bill Gates and Greta Thunberg are definite exceptions to R51's take (and I believe both are well known to be on the spectrum), but it's probably true of most of the other people on this thread.

Those two are joined by Steve Jobs, no doubt.

R11

Sorry R6

Addis Miller, actor/model/dancer extraordinaire

Indigo children! Why I haven't heard that ridiculous expression in over 10 years. The New York Times has a lot to answer for when it comes to giving a voice to bullshit, and here's their obligatory "both sidesing" cowardice on the subject of indigo children. According to a book I read on the subject while I was in a vegan restaurant (it was in the shared bookshelf) you can recognize indigo children by their refusal to be told what to do, insistence on choices, and superiority to your reality-based social norms.

R47, I came across an interview with David Byrne randomly one day and my first impression was that he clearly had high-functioning autism. His manner is the thing that is immediately apparent, but looking a bit further, his physical ungainliness, removed and almost alien view of human experience and fraught relationships are pretty telling too.

Byrne is now talking openly about being autistic, as if everyone hadn't already guessed.

I saw "Stop Making Sense" on the Roku last night, and it was like watching an Associate Professor of Engineering and chamption gamer get up and have a go at being a rock star. And amazingly, succeeding.

ok, so according to this thread, anyone and everyone who appeared at least once on TV is on the spectrum... has anyone of y'all experts ever checked the definition of autism?

Rooney Mara

Apparently some thing that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys is on the autism spectrum, although obviously he's had other problems as well.

Still wonder about Brian May of Queen having Aspergers. It'd be so handy when studying astrophysics.

Britney Spears. Have you seen her Instagram posts? Manic, rocks back and forth — she’s a textbook case.

R63 She's probably bipolar as rumored for many years now.

I'm no doctor, but I don't get that vibe from Brian May R62. He's eloquent, calm and patient during interviews and he makes eye contact with the interviewer. He doesn't seem to have any odd quirks or social anxieties. I know Asperger's is high-functioning autism, but even people with Asperger's exhibit quirks that I've never seen with May. What makes you suspect that he's on the spectrum?

Allen Degenerate

I think some people need to realise that being really smart doesn't automatically = autism.

Someone I used to know who had interactions with Sean Lennon said the guy was slightly off. Off as in not a good or bad way but on the spectrum. How can you not be affected when your parents did so much drugs besides both being deranged, world class assholes.

R61 While she looks and acts genuinely mentally challenged, I suspect she is very much a part of the group R51 is talking about.

I don't know why people are on the spectrum but I don't believe it results from parents doing drugs and being world class assholes.

January Jones

Wrong R70, psychosocial environment and prenatal factors such as gene expression, heritability, and substance use among other things, are linked with higher incidence of autism diagnoses in offsprings. It's a disorder with complex etiology but certainly both parents doing every drug under the sun prior to you being conceived and then living a crazy lifestyle with a drugged out asshole parents couldn't be all that helpful. That's not to say that people on the spectrum have all of these factors, scientists believe there is a genetic component. A lot of psychiatric disorders get switched on, so to speak, when the right environmental/ psychosocial elements are there to help switch them on and keep them switched on. Some of my patients with schizophrenia do well because they have stable family support while others don't do as well because they come from fractured families with a lot of dysfunction. It can be sort of the same with people on the spectrum, being higher functioning and having good support system bode well.

R72 I gave that to you. Before I finished typing I thought, "Go ahead with the correction."

Kate McKinnon

Pete Davidson. He's pretty astute in some of his observations but also deeply troubled.

SNL seems to be a haven for "on the spectrum." Is Lorne?

Davidson and Spears are just batshit crazy, if they seem awkward and disconnected it's because they're either totally out of touch with reality, or zonked on psych meds. Probably the same for others on this thread.

People on the autism spectrum aren't generally crazy, not at all. They're just a bit different from the rest of us.

Sometimes I wonder if Sacha Baron Cohen is on the spectrum, he seems so creepy, flat, disengaged from normal human interaction, and cruel.

But then, I realize he's probably just a sociopath.

R75 He admitted that he's been diagnosed with DL's favorite mental illness, Borderline Personality Disorder.

Ben Shapiro and Greta Thunberg are cut from the sane cloth. Had they been swapped at birth, Ben would be screaming at people for using straws while Greta would be trying to dismantle Islam.

^^ *SAME cloth*

Rose McGowan?

Lily Tomlin. She's mellowed with age, but there is some kind of 'disconnect' with her. In interviews she'd be telling a story, lose her place, then look off in the middle distance like she didn't know who or where she was. Then smile.

Zuckerberg, obviously. Spears is clearly bi-polar who had a coke problem. Davidson is just an unmotivated pot/cokehead who could use some intensive therapy. I think Kate McKinnon is just odd like Wiig. Fred Armisen probably has some addiction issues and was probably molested at some point. Courtney Love was probably put through the ringer when she was younger but didn't really deal with anything about it until she was well into heroin addiction.

I bet many people listed in this thread simply like doing lines and drinking instead of putting effort into recovering from a litany of bullshit that happened to them when they were young.

R62 Brian Wilson is bipolar.

Aren’t we, by definition, ALL on the spectrum?

Mo Rocca

Kara Hayward

Kara Hayward

Mitch McConnell

Keith Moon was and it explains his extreme daredevil ways.

Connor Jessup

Vincent D'Onofrio, a self professed "extreme introvert," has also admitted to having severe dyslexia, which is often comorbid with autism spectrum disorders, and has conceded a couple of times that it's possible he might be on the spectrum. He's quite eccentric, at the very least.

I've strongly suspected that Peter Gabriel might be somewhere on the hinterlands of the spectrum, and there are so many hints, signs and patterns that would bear that out, for instance.

- Monotone voice and odd and disjointed speech rhythms, coupled with a difficult-to-place accent.

- Strong, some might say obsessive interests (shortwave listening, world music, anthropology, Carl Jung, communicating with bonobos, new tech etc.).

- Extreme perfectionism and attention to detail (partially explaining why he hasn't released an album of original material in nearly 20 years).

- Social maladroitness (like, for example, when he tactlessly spilt the beans about Kate Bush's pregnancy to the press).

- The line [italic]"I think in pictures, not in words"[/italic] from Through the Wire could almost be Temple Grandin. Granted, this is Gabriel writing from the perspective of Mozo, one of his recurring characters (also the subject of Here Comes the Flood, On the Air and Red Rain), who, as a lifelong social misfit, can only truly express himself through the mediation of technology. However, something tells me Gabriel sublimated a large portion of himself into that persona.

But having said that, I'm both a diagnosed Aspie and a Gabriel fan, which could be significantly colouring my perception of the man. There could be some wish fulfilment too. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Henry Cavill. Or maybe he's just a drunk.

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Everyone is self diagnosing themselves as autistic. It makes the actual disorder meaningless.

Connor Jessup. Seems in his own world in interviews.

Well, this was fun.

Moi.

Because I said so.

Autism sucks .

Carol Kane.

The former Vairst Letty.

I have worked with autistic children and the level and severity of autism traits is dramatic. Some children are gifted intellectually and you would have to evaluate them closely in order to suggest autism. Their problems with attention, emotional regulation, difficulty reading social-emotional cues increase as school becomes more regimented and social interactions more complex.. Most autistic people have a dual diagnosis, often more, because people on the spectrum have greater rates of addiction, attention deficit disorder, psychosis, bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia. Many of these are in one sense compensatory reactions to the underlying anxiety and distress autistic people feel, in spite of the impression they give of being unemotional.

This is why it is difficult to isolate autism in undiagnosed adults because these other disorders have surfaced. It doesn't mean that everyone with a mental illness is autistic, but that people with autism might not respond in "typical" ways to treatments or drugs and need extra help with life skills, even as adults.

Autistic people are generally horrible

R61 I think Rooney Mara’s autism is an act.

R77 He’s not really cruel. He championed Maria with her Oscar nomination as well as nice donation to the babysitter.

95% of the people named do not seem autistic. Many probably have personality and mood disorders or severe trauma. Or are just really socially awkward. Having good looks or extraordinary talent can result in social isolation as well as not having the desire or need to develop social skills.

Some like Tim Burton, Gary Numan, Harmony Kormine and David Byrne do seem autistic and I think they admitted to it. I'd also include David Lynch as well and Tom Cruise. Autistic people generally do better behind the scenes or in music rather than acting (too much expression) or modeling (would get bored).

ADHD, Bipolar, Borderline, Anxiety, OCD, Antisocial, Narcissistic and Schizotypal disorder have all gotten misdiagnosed as autism. There's a lot of comorbidity and overlap of symptoms. Traditionally the arts world attracted those with mental disorders since traditional 9 to 5 jobs would not be as tolerant towards those who are unstable, have difficulty with conforming to norms and understanding social cues. Many are moving to the tech world though since the arts are not as profitable and coding is actually a very creative world.

Most directors. Steven Spielberg, David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick seem like obvious examples.

I've been told by a psychiatrist that bipolar is far more common among entertainers than it is in the community. So it's statistically more likely you're seeing that than autism.

A lot of people on this thread don't seem to understand that there are quite a lot of perfectly normal people who are able to concentrate for hours on end on something they're really interested in, even when it's above the level of a jigsaw puzzle, and likewise normal people who are able to understand extremely complex concepts just by intelligence and perseverence. It's a mistake to excuse the MTV attention span by medicalizing everyone else.

Autism is brain damage

I think a sizable amount or actors, entertainers, dancer and writers are bipolar, ADHD and/or narcissism. While a lot of directors, musicians, visual artists and game designers are autistic. With overlap in both sides. I really doubt there are many borderlines in the entertainment and arts field like DL says because BPD way too undisciplined and emotionally fragile to succeed in any competitive industry. Also, some of the most interesting and haunting visual art, music and literature were written by schizophrenics usually poor and elderly, other under the category of "outsider media."

Keanu Reeves, duh!