Aspergers/PDD

As long as others are mentioning it - here's my  little list I love of famous people with or suspected of having high functioning autism- it reminds me that everything is going to be a-ok;)

Jane Austen,
Ludwig van Beethoven
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Cavendish
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
Thomas Jefferson
Carl Jung
Franz Kafka
Wasily Kandinsky
H P Lovecraft
Isaac Newton
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nikola Tesla
Mark Twain
Vincent Van Gogh
John Denver
Jim Henson- creator of the Muppets
Alfred Hitchcock
Andy Kaufman,
Charles Schulz creator  Charlie Brown
Andy Warhol,  artist
Woody Allen
Bob Dylan
Bill Gates
Al Gore
David Helfgott
Michael Palin
Keanu Reeves
James Taylor

Hi. I wanted to echo what others have said about persons with Aspergers and autism being successful in work and in life. I worked with kids with autism for several years and, if you will forgive the generalizing, they were some of the most intelligent, fascinating and gifted people I have ever known.  Some people say that many, many of the people working at Intel and the U.S. National labs have undiagnosed Aspergers.

You and your son will be in my thoughts.
Liz