Asperger's Syndrome and High Achievement: Some Very Remarkable PeopleJessica Kingsley Publishers, 17 nov. 2005 - 224 pages This book describes the lives and personalities of 20 remarkable people from the past, who may well have had Asperger's syndrome (AS). Famous in the fields of art, literature and science, among others, they illustrate vividly how highly intelligent people are able to surmount some of the problems that AS causes and achieve so much - more than might have been possible without it.' |
Table des matières
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4 Jonathan Swift 16671745 | 45 |
5 John Howard c 17261790 | 53 |
6 Henry Cavendish 17311810 | 63 |
7 Thomas Jefferson 17431826 | 69 |
8 Vincent van Gogh 18531890 | 77 |
13 Ramanujan 18871920 | 125 |
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Ludwig Wittgenstein 18891951 | 133 |
15 Alfred Kinsey 18941956 | 143 |
16 SimoneWeil 19091943 | 155 |
17 Alan Turing 19121954 | 167 |
18 Patricia Highsmith 19211995 | 177 |
19 AndyWarhol 19281987 | 183 |
20 Glenn Gould 19321982 | 195 |
9 Eric Satie 18661925 | 89 |
10 Bertrand Russell 18721970 | 97 |
11 Albert Einstein 18791955 | 107 |
12 Béla Bartók 18811945 | 117 |
Conclusion | 203 |
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Acknowledgments | 224 |