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This is a list of fictional characters that have been explicitly described within the work in which they appear, or otherwise by the author, as being on the autism spectrum. It is not intended to include speculation. Autistic people involved in the work may be mentioned in footnotes.
1. Susan Boyle. The Scottish singer became an international star after appearing on 'Britain's Got Talent' in 2009. Boyle was diagnosed with a Asperger Syndrome - a form of autism - later in life.
Singer's 1998 thesis Odd People In: The Birth of Community Amongst People on the Autistic Spectrum, [33] wherein she had first coined the term neurodiversity, was republished as Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea in September 2017. [34] Pablo is a British pre-school children's TV program about an autistic boy. It was first aired in October 2017.
The diagnosis of Triplett led to the complex history of autism, which involved many conflicts among autism specialists and advocates. From there, the history of autism would unfold across decades, playing out in many and varied dramatic episodes, bizarre twists, and star turns, both heroic and villainous, by researchers, educators, activists and autistic people themselves.
Benjy is most likely autistic with synesthesia, as his whole life experience based on smells, shapes, and sounds [9] 1976 Harry Hardacre The Hardacres (book series) C. L. Skelton Harry has Little's Disease [citation needed] 1904 Captain Hook: Peter and Wendy: J. M. Barrie: A pirate with a missing hand [10] 1996 Tyrion Lannister: A Song of Ice ...
Autistic people often have these attributes and some people diagnosed with this condition would have been considered autistic today. Italian psychiatrist Sante De Sanctis briefly mentioned a condition in a 1906 paper [ 36 ] [ 37 ] he called dementia praecocissima (very premature dementia), which was a form of dementia praecox that started very ...
Approximately 8 in 10 people with autism have a mental health problem in their lifetime, in comparison to 1 in 4 of the general population. [132] [133] [134] A 2019 meta-analysis found autistic people to be four times more likely to have depression than non-autistic people, with approximately 40% of autistic adults having depression. [135]
Thousands of artists have been named in a widely circulated list of people whose work was used to train a popular artificial intelligence art generator. Thousands of artists have been named in a ...