Famous people with autism in Russia and abroad

Autism Spectrum Syndromes are numerous and varied. People with them, if they were treated with understanding from childhood, eventually turned into outstanding personalities. Among those with such a congenital psychological disorder, there are many famous and talented individuals.

These brilliant people, who are in themselves all the time, cannot fully orient themselves in society. They are distinguished by their special behavior and character traits. Such people should not be considered sick, they just are not like everyone else.

A little about autism

In Russia, doctors have a comprehensive approach to autism therapy.

They prescribe to those suffering from this pathology:

• medical treatment, if necessary;
• classes with a speech therapist;
• correction of behavior.

From the following table, you can roughly learn about the signs and factors of autism. Also, the columns below describe the rules of conduct for other people in relation to individuals. with this mental disorder:

Distinguishing features of people with autism	Causes of Autism Spectrum Disorders	How to behave around people with autism
Disrupted social interaction.	Abnormalities in neurophysiological and genetic development.	Have patience
Self-directed monologue.	Prematurity of the fetus	Always listen and ask.
Lack of emotion	Weakened immunity	Discuss their interests with them.
Non-contact	Infectious diseases	Communicate if they want to.
Improper speech development.	Poor environmental conditions.	Show them respect and love.
The use of peripheral vision in communication.	Frequent overwork and stress.	Invite them to any kind of communication.
Repetitive and stereotyped behavior.	Penetration of hazardous substances into the body.	Give them a break from communication more often.
Extraordinary and narrow interests.	Unfavorable psychological environment.	Respect boundaries
Concerned interest in schedules, dates.	Constant and strong physical stress.	Show understanding
Aggressive and angry outbursts.	Frequent poisoning	Perceive them as normal people.

Famous people with autism are quite common. Even a genius can suffer from this disease. This pathology is manifested by poor adaptation in society. Over time, the disease is well diagnosed and treated. But doctors have not yet been able to completely remove autism in people with it. Patients are provided with comprehensive, and most importantly, timely assistance. Thanks to this, complex mental pathology flows into a lighter form and becomes almost invisible.

Among the outstanding people with autism, the most prominent are:

• W. B. Yates;
• D. Aykroyd;
• L. Wittgenstein;
• G. NS. Andersen;
• NS. Warhol;
• WITH. Boyle;
• A. Azimov;
• N. Tesla;
• T. Burton;
• WITH. Tajiri;
• L. Carroll;
• D. Seinfeld;
• G. Cavendish;
• AND. Newton;
• Ch. Darwin;
• V. A. Mozart;
• NS. Dickinson;
• Michelangelo;
• A. Einstein;
• WITH. Cockpit;
• WITH. Jobs;
• B. Gates.

Autistic people have the following benefits, they are:

• know how to focus on their own interests and specific topics;
• do not perceive socialization and the dominant culture, due to which these individuals develop innovative solutions;
• very attentive to detail, which is welcome in:

1. programming;
2. engineering;
3. analytics.

Famous people with autism have special traits that ordinary people do not have. The symptoms of this disorder are common in prominent individuals. It seems that their strong character and spirit help people fight it. But, perhaps, this mental illness helps a person with him to better reveal his talents.

Famous people with autism in Russia

Life examples of famous individuals with autism prove that a person with this problem can well socialize. Many people who have successfully overcome autism spectrum disorders have made a huge contribution to the life of the domestic and foreign public.

Sunny virtuoso pianist Evgeny Kissin

The miracle child diagnosed with autism, Evgeny Kisin, began to show his extraordinary abilities in infancy. He heard his older sister play piano and repeat after her, singing melodies. From the age of 2, the young prodigy could already play the piano himself. Mom Eugene, who knew about his psychological characteristics, fully accepted her son and began to work hard on him.

At the age of 6, the talented E. Kissin was sent to the Gnessin Music School.

There he struck his teacher Anna Kantor:

• vivid imagination;
• the ability to improvise;
• great and unconventional talent for music.

The family of a special boy with giftedness has always treated him warmly and understandingly, which cannot be said about his peers. Evgeny was often not perceived at school as a normal child, which, of course, worried him very much. But thanks to his professional approach, the young pianist quickly learned to read and write and became famous even abroad.

Young E. Kissin gave concerts in:

• Eastern Europe;
• Japan;
• Berlin;
• USA.

By now, the virtuoso pianist has worked in orchestras with such famous conductors as:

• NS. Temirkanov;
• V. Ashkenazi;
• D. Barenboim;
• TO. Abbado;
• M. Rostropovich;
• V. Gergiev;
• E. Svetlanov.

Famous people with autism are increasingly joining the ranks of patients with this mental abnormality. Representatives with this pathology with age become even better and more successful than healthy ones. This circumstance happens due to the fact that autistic people differ from others in their worldview and way of thinking.

Shy mathematician Grigory Perelman

From childhood, the very developed Grigory Perelman played adult, not children's, games. At the age of 6, he was already easily operating in his mind with 3-digit numbers. This quiet and humble genius, according to the people around him, always had a distinctive opinion of his own. He was not particularly interested in anything around. In schools, before going to college, Perelman often won math olympiads. The future famous and strange scientist suggested to teachers better and more economical solutions of theorems.

After the institute, Perelman received 3 state awards for his outstanding achievements. But he completely abandoned all of them. This person has always been indifferent to the money and human values ​​of other people.

An outstanding person experienced happiness in simple things. Having quit his last job, Perelman became withdrawn and uncommunicative. But this does not at all indicate that the scientist has become an unhappy individual. The genius person with autistic disorder simply focused on his own personality and began to live for himself in pleasure, not paying attention to others at all.

Celebrities abroad

Many people from far abroad, despite diagnosed with autism, managed to achieve great fame in the world. In this they were helped by their outstanding abilities and highly developed intelligence, which did not succumb to such serious psychological disorders.

The brains of people with autism helped them develop themselves in certain topics, which they literally brought to perfection. Such individuals, up to obsession, can fully devote all their strength to the development of spheres of activity close to them.

Recognized Savant Kim Peak

As a child, Kim Peek, the prototype of Rain Man, was identified by doctors as a patient with autism. But in adulthood, not quite a full-fledged genius actually turned out to be a person with savant syndrome (giftedness).

At 3 years old, Kim Peak:

• did not go to the toilet on my own;
• could not dress himself;
• freely read adult books from the family library.

The diseased brain of a gifted child helped him keep the contents of all the books he read in his memory. Thanks to this ability, the boy was nicknamed the Kim Pewter. After a fateful meeting with the writer B. Morrow Kim Peak learned to believe in himself and became much bolder.

When the film Rain Man was released, the prototype of the main character of the picture began to acquaint the whole world with his genius abilities, traveling with his own father in many countries. The famous Kim Peak lived 58 happy years, after which he died of a heart attack in an American hospital.

Architectural artist Stephen Wiltshire with a phenomenal memory

From the age of 3, Stephen Wiltshire communicated with others through drawings. A boy with autism began to speak well only at the age of 9. At the same age, the child from memory in detail reproduced the landscapes of cities. Due to his ability, Wiltshire became known as the Living Camera. A teacher from a school for children with autism helped Stephen enter children's art contests. After that, the whole of London learned about his talent.

At the age of 8, the young and gifted artist sold his first work for $ 1.5 thousand. pounds.

After some time, the child traveled a lot and recreated what he saw on paper:

• New York;
• Venice;
• Amsterdam;
• Leningrad;
• Moscow.

Currently, the modest and smiling Stephen Wiltshire, holder of the Order of the British Empire, works a lot in public. Before drawing cities, he flies around them in a helicopter. The artist loves to work with headphones, listening to music from the 60s or 70s.

Famous people with autism don't just exist, they lead fulfilling lives. They invest a lot and develop modern society in a certain way. Among individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (a type of autism), there are outstanding individuals, for example, artists or scientists. Those with such mental characteristics are very different from normal people. But this circumstance does not in any way prevent them from realizing and showing themselves from their best sides.

The incredible and amazing Daniel Tammet

This person:

• does not understand where is right or left, that is, he is a person with autism;
• works well with prime and composite numbers;
• quickly finds the cube root in the mind;
• speaks 10 foreign languages, and also came up with 1 own;
• can easily multiply 3-digit numbers in his head.

All these superpowers developed in Daniel when he was 4 years old. At this age, the boy had an epileptic seizure. After graduating from school, Tammet did not enter the university, but moved from his native London to Lithuania. There he began to teach people English. And the phenomenal memory of the genius autistic allowed him to learn Icelandic in just 7 days.

Adult Tammet:

• does not work in a team;
• remotely teaches the basics of computing and languages;
• creates books.

Famous zoologist Temple Grandin

This amazing woman considers autism to be a part of her personality.

She happens to be:

• the author of works on the problems of autism spectrum disorders;
• professor at the University of Colorado;
• successfully overcome shortcomings in the development of social skills;
• renowned zoologist;
• a successful businessman;
• Doctor of Science.

Temple began to show signs of autism as early as 6 months. Subsequently, thanks to enhanced speech treatment, the girl began to speak normally. Before that, she communicated with others only with the help of vague sounds and gestures. At the age of 6, Grandin completely stabilized and turned into an autistic person with highly functional speech abilities.

At school, a strange girl was considered a hooligan and a poor student.

But despite this, she is excellent:

• made wooden crafts;
• played in theatrical performances and created costumes;
• painted and sculpted.

Once having found the door to heaven, as Grandin herself put it about overcoming her own difficulties in development, this person graduated well from high school and went to college. Once on her aunt's ranch, the girl met the livestock and thus acquired her life purpose. Taking care of animals helped Temple cope with her problems and even teach it to other people with autism.

Autism cannot be considered an obstacle to a person's achievement of goals. The proof of this is the life stories of famous people with this developmental anomaly. Such famous personalities, despite such a pathology, did their best to achieve a lot. They have excelled in many areas of activity, successfully overcoming the complexities of mental illness.

Strong and unyielding Daryl Hannah

Because of the "autism" diagnosis of the actress's mother, diagnosed in childhood, doctors suggested placing her daughter in a psychiatric hospital. But fortunately, the woman refused this. Later it turned out that Daryl developed Asperger's syndrome (a milder course of autism).

Future star successfully:

• overcame her numerous complexes;
• learned to build social relationships;
• coped with the manifestations of her disorder;
• became a celebrity;
• got married.

Meticulous director Stanley Kubrick

As a child, the withdrawn Stanley did not communicate with his peers, but played chess alone. Later, the future director developed Asperger's syndrome.

All his life Kubrick had:

• problems with empathy;
• unsociability;
• obsessive thoughts;
• meticulousness.

If not for his father's belief in the future of his son, Stanley would never have become a great director. The elder Kubrick once gave the heir a camera for his birthday. Stanley was so carried away by this subject that he even somehow got a job with it.

Then his second passion came to the future director - his passion for the movie camera. Thanks to the autistic disorder of the famous cinema master, the world saw his inimitable masterpieces. All his films have become excellent due to the incredible perfectionism of the famous director and his attention to detail.

Introverted and talented Sir Anthony Hopkins

The future actor Anthony Hopkins, when he was a child, suffered from dyslexia. Because of this, he developed numerous complexes. By the age of 70, this famous man decided to get tested for his autism.

The famous actor was also pushed to this action:

• constant analysis of the behavior of others and book heroes;
• the presence of a nervous tic;
• repeated inconsistency of actions;
• the desire for loneliness;
• isolation.

Confirmed diagnosis of autism did not negatively affect Anthony Hopkins. The actor is still sure that this mental disorder, on the contrary, helped him a lot in life. With him, Tony found himself and his profession. To cope with such an anomaly in the development of a celebrity, his hobbies for music and painting help.

Autistic people in the modern world are considered special. Such people, if their parents treated them correctly from childhood, achieve a lot in life. Over time, they even become famous personalities. Individuals with this disorder are often found among celebrities both abroad and in Russia.

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