I realize that making posthumous assumptions or suggestions that someone may have been on the spectrum is not valid and is more of a form of entertainment really, but when I watched this video I couldn't help but wonder if Andy Warhol was autistic.
Only after seeing the video and then googling the keywords did I find that I'm not the first one who wondered this and apparently it's been strongly suggested by others.
"According to a paper submitted to the National Autistic Society, many of Warhol's artistic and behavioural traits bear marks of the condition. His social ineptitude, care to use the minimum of words in speech, difficulty recognising friends and obsession with the uniformity of consumer goods are each thought to be clues that Warhol was autistic to some degree.”
Dr. Judith Gould, director of Eliot House, Britain's leading diagnostic centre for autism, was quoted as saying, “It is fascinating how many of the things Warhol did are typical of autism…Asperger syndrome. I would say, from the study I have seen, that Warhol almost certainly had Asperger syndrome.”
Only after seeing the video and then googling the keywords did I find that I'm not the first one who wondered this and apparently it's been strongly suggested by others.
"According to a paper submitted to the National Autistic Society, many of Warhol's artistic and behavioural traits bear marks of the condition. His social ineptitude, care to use the minimum of words in speech, difficulty recognising friends and obsession with the uniformity of consumer goods are each thought to be clues that Warhol was autistic to some degree.”
Dr. Judith Gould, director of Eliot House, Britain's leading diagnostic centre for autism, was quoted as saying, “It is fascinating how many of the things Warhol did are typical of autism…Asperger syndrome. I would say, from the study I have seen, that Warhol almost certainly had Asperger syndrome.”
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