Asperger’s Syndrome patient Tim Page: "The Asperger’s spectrum ranges from people barely more abstracted than a stereotypical 'absent-minded professor' to the full-blown, albeit highly functioning, autistic. Symptoms of Asperger’s have been attributed ex post facto to successful figures, but these are the fortunate ones—persons able to invent outlets for their ever-welling monomanias. Many are not so lucky, and some end up institutionalized or homeless. In the late nineteen-seventies, I saw a ragged, haunted man who spent urgent hours dodging the New York transit police to trace the dates and lineage of the Hapsburg nobility on the walls of subway stations."
Sources
"Parallel Play" by Tim Page in The New Yorker, Aug. 20, 2007, p. 38
