Famous People With Asperger's Syndrome
Did you know that there are actually a lot of famous people...well known, successful people...who either have Asperger's syndrome or have been rumored to have Asperger's? It is helpful to take a look at some of these people to show us that having Asperger's syndrome does not have to get in your way of being successful. In fact, sometimes it is the very traits in Asperger's that can make you successful. 1. Bill Gates Bill Gates, one of the richest people in the world today, is the founder of Microsoft. Gates shows many traits of Asperger's, although he has never been formally diagnosed. Gates was always more interested in machines than people as a kid, and had a single minded focus on figuring out how the computer worked. The first computers were just being developed when Gates was growing up, and he spent hours at his school's computer trying to figure out how to build software for it and learn how it worked. His tenacity would serve him well la...