Sunday, March 9, 2008

Famous people with autism

Want to know about famous autistic people around the world?

The list of famous autistic people comprise of individuals from different walks of life.

  • Daryl Hannah, who was a famous film actress, was diagnosed in child hood having ‘borderline’ autism.
  • Christopher Knowles, he was an American poet also falls under famous autistic people.
  • Actor Matthew McCarron, got place among famous autistic people, because he was murdered by his mother at the age of three.
  • Michael Moon is adopted autistic child of author Elizabeth Moon.
  • Among famous autistic people, there is a high school basket ball player named Jason McElwain.
  • Sue Rubin can not speak but she had communication skills. She got place in the list of famous autistic people because her story was made into a documentary Autism is a word.
  • An author from Germany named Biger Sellin also falls in the list of famous autistic people.
  • Michelle Dawson, who made ethical challenges to applied behavior analysis of people with autism.
  • Temple Grandin was famous designer of food animal handling systems.
  • Hikari Oe, he was famous Japanese music composer.
  • Bhumi Jensen, he was a prince in Thailand and was killed by Tsunami in 2004.
  • Dylan Scott Pierce, was wild life activist.
  • Donna Williams, famous Australian author who wrote books like Nobody Nowhere and Somebody somewhere.
  • Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist was a autistic person.
  • Axel Brauns, his autobiography was one among best seller autobiographies.

All the famous autistic people above mark a distinction among the rest because irrespective of whatever drawback they had they made valuable contribution to the world.

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