Brilliant minds linked to autism
Historical figures including Socrates, Charles Darwin, and Andy Warhol probably had a form of autism, says a leading specialist. Prof. Michael Fitzgerald, of Dublin's Trinity College believes they showed signs of Asperger's syndrome… Asperger's is associated with poor social skills, and obsessions with complex topics such as music.
Another person with a trendy book to sell. I do wish people wouldn't do stuff like this. I've also read of Freudian shrinks retrospectively psycho-analysing Darwin and deducing he hated his father. And there was some other chap who liked to assign IQ scores to dead celebrities—as if the concept of IQ wasn't dodgy enough already.