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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP didn't just make that up. It's widely accepted in the ASD community and by experts that Einstein was on the spectrum. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective_diagnoses_of_autism

OP, sorry you were so unfairly targeted here. Bunch of ingoramuses. Here's a list of books, hope you'll find a couple that are helpful. At least one of them also lists Einstein as having had ASD. You're a great parent, good luck! http://www.parenting.com/gallery/autism-books?page=2[/quote]

From your link:

Speculation of this sort is, by necessity, based on reported behavior and anecdotal evidence rather than any clinical observation of the individual. P[b]sychologist and author Oliver Sacks wrote that many of these claims seem "very thin at best",[12] and Fred Volkmar, of the Yale Child Study Center, has remarked that "there is unfortunately a sort of cottage industry of finding that everyone has Asperger's".[13] Michael Fitzgerald's research, in particular, has been heavily criticised, and described by some as "fudged pseudoscience"[14] and "frankly absurd".[/b][15][/quote]

You missed the first part:

"Isaac Newton (1643–1727), Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and Albert Einstein (1879–1955) all died before Asperger syndrome became known, but Ioan James,[4] Michael Fitzgerald,[7] and Simon Baron-Cohen[36] believe their personalities are consistent with those of people with Asperger syndrome. Tony Attwood has also named Einstein as a likely case of mild autism.[23]

So four experts agree on retrospective ASD diagnoses, and two disagree. Elliott disagrees because Einstein had a sense of humor. Hmmm... I know several people with ASD who are hilarious.

Besides, the point is that OP used experts' opinions to present to her child, based on her son's interest in those people's biographies. She did not make up the diagnoses herself. The meanness she experienced here is not warranted. [/quote]

You simply can't go back in time and (mis)diagnose the dead.

If you actually read the biographies of these people, [b]you'd know they didn't have autism[/b]. It's simple wishful thinking on the part of some people today. [/quote]

How? What makes you more knowledgeable then scientists who study autism?
Are you an expert in the field? Do you have ASD?[/quote]

[b]I apparently know more than you. [/b]Einstein had no repetitive behaviors, and a robust social (and love) life.  The facts point to learning differences in his early life, but not to autism.
Maybe you know more wrong things then me. Einstein did hyperfocus on restrictive interests. Absence of repetitive behaviors does not exclude ASD. Neither does being social or loving. You obviously have a warped, ignorant view of autistic people. Remember that plenty of adults are diagnosed today late in life, after getting married and having children. You might work or socialize with an autistic person and not even know it.
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Again, you are creating fictions that suit your own purpose.  How about this expert in autism, who discounts your rosy view? She's the creator of the ADOS, the "gold standard" tool  of ASD diagostics:

http://nymag.com/news/features/autism-spectrum-2012-11/index6.html

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  For clinicians in the trenches, the more exuberant efforts to link autism with genius can be exasperating[/b]. “Do blind people hear music more exquisitely than people with sight?” asks Siegel. “We don’t have any neurophysiological evidence that they do.” Similarly, most people with Asperger’s have average intelligence, with high IQs the exception. And many with ASD, and the families who care for them, suffer terribly. “[b]There clearly are people with ASD who marry,” says Catherine Lord, director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at Weill Cornell Medical College, “but they are not many. More and more people with ASD have jobs, but the majority are underemployed, or have jobs that don’t use their capabilities as much as possible. So these references to Einstein and Jefferson are not helpful.”[/b]

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