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• The Genius of Autism Wiki

  Welcome to The Genius of Autism Wiki! We are a Wiki about the gifts of autism and autistic people with remarkable achievements. Our goal is to help defeat prejudices and ostracism as well as to

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• John Nash

  John Nash (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was a mathematical genius who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations, and the only person to be awarded

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• Carly Fleischmann

  Carly Grace Fleischmann (born January 26, 1995) is a remarkable Canadian young lady who has defied all odds and inspired people worldwide. Although she was diagnosed with autism, oral-motor apraxia and cognitive delay as

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• Greta Thunberg

  Greta Thunberg (born 2003) is a young environmental activist from Sweden. She started her campaign against global warming at the age of 15 (in August 2018), protesting in front of the Swedish parliament with a

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• William Sidis

  William J. Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was a formidable mathematical and linguistic child prodigy who (according to his sister) had the highest IQ ever recorded, could read at 18 months, was admitted

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• Courtney Love

  Courtney Love (born 1964) is a multi-talented and prolific American musician, artist and actress nominated for multiple Grammy Awards. She revealed that she was diagnosed with mild autism as a child in her 1994

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• Jacob Barnett

  Jacob ("Jake") Barnett (born 1998) is a gifted American physics student and former child prodigy. He was admitted to the Perimeter Scholars International in 2013, when he was 15, the youngest student ever admitted to

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• Andy Kaufman

  Andy Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor, writer, performance artist and professional wrestler. He was often referred to as a dadaistic comedian because of how he managed to blur

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• Ellen Boudreaux

  Ellen Boudreaux (born 1957) is a blind time-keeping wizard and musical savant from the USA. She is blind because she was born prematurely. Her extraordinary musical abilities were noticed when she was just six

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• Michael Burry

  Michael Burry (born 1971) is an American physician and businessman with his own hedge fund. After his son was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, he diagnosed himself with Asperger's Syndrome too after reading more

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• Joshua Beckford

  Joshua Beckford (born 2004) is the youngest person who was ever admitted to Oxford University. He was admitted at age 6 (taking part in courses which were part of an online learning platform for gifted

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• Dani Bowman

  Dani Bowman (born 9 January 1995) is a very talented animator, animation educator and autism advocate. She also has her own animation studio (which she started at the age of 14). She was diagnosed with

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• Trevor Tao

  Trevor Tao (born 1977) is an international chess master from Australia who also won prizes in maths and music (classical music composition) when he was a teenager. He is also the brother of two maths

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• Cameron Thompson

  Cameron Thompson is a British math prodigy with Asperger's Syndrome. His talent became evident when he was only four and he corrected his teacher who had claimed zero was the lowest number – she was

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• Glenn Gould

  Glenn Gould (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian concert pianist of world fame, in particular as a Bach's interpreter. In spite of his masterful performances, he stopped performing publicly at the

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• Books and Essays on the Genius of Autism

  Baron-Cohen, Simon – The Essential Difference, Penguin Books (2003) Brown, Julie – Writers on the Spectrum: How Autism and Asperger Syndrome Have Influenced Literary Writing, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2010)

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• David Sharif

  David Sharif is a global autism advocate and motivational speaker for the world of neurodiversity. Born in Los Angeles, he graduated valedictorian from Village Glen West, a multi-disciplinary school administered by The Help Group

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• Marie Curie

  Marie Curie (November 7, 1867 - July 4, 1934) was a Polish/French physicist and chemist who is famous in particular for her research on radioactivity. Marie Curie is also the first woman ever to win

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• Dian Fossey

  Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an outstanding American primatologist and conservationist who researched mountain gorillas for over 18 years in the mountain forests of Rwanda, where she founded the Karisoke

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• Norbert Wiener

  Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a child prodigy, and as an adult he contributed significant research to the fields of stochastic and mathematical noise

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• Albert Einstein

  Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German theoretical physicist who is usually considered the prototype of genius. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern

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• Donna Williams

  Donna Leanne Williams, also known by her married name Donna Leanne Samuel (October 12, 1963 - April 22, 2017) was a very talented poet, artist, author, songwriter/musician and screenwriter from Australia. She was diagnosed as

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• Béla Bartók

  Béla Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist as well as one of the founders of comparative musicology and is considered one of the most important composers of the

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• Joseph Cornell

  Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American mostly self-taught artist, sculptor, experimental filmmaker and one of the most prominent exponents of assemblage (created from found objects) with elements of both

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• Simone Weil

  Simone Weil (February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist siding with the Anarchists known as the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War. Simone Weil was a prolific

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