Did Wittgenstein Have Asperger's Syndrome?
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@whitetigerdream He might have been. The point I want to make is more like that's not what made him an original thinker. I have known four or five people whose personality traits were such that I seriously suspected they had AS (AS is not that widely known in Japan) , but they were anything but charismatic intellectuals, rather, unfortunately, the complete and utter opposite. AS comes in so many shapes and forms that to have one word sum up somebody like WS seems to do him an injustice.
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@VVillowz Kafka certainly was.
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I wonder how many people who wrote the bible were Autistic.
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Idiotic psycho-babble. If Wittgenstein was Autistic then so was Kafka, Beethoven, Chopin, Freud, and so on.
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What's the name of this music peice?
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Well good thing Wittgenstein wasn't 'cured' by doctors and made 'normal'.
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@tenderUnbutton A philosophical genius with Asperger's cannot recognize and brilliantly elucidate the social usefulness of language as he witnesses it in others? Maybe he'd have the advantage of observing the phenomenon with an 'outsider's' detached perspective.
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@tenderUnbutton Since when do abbreviations = negative labels? You obviously don't know any Aspy people.
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Quite a lot of people have some traits typically associated with AS, but that does not make them autistic. Isn't this exactly the kind of reductionistic explanation Wittgenstein disdained??
tairanotomomori 5 months ago
@tairanotomomori the two experts I quoted from saw an entire syndrome in Wittgenstein, meeting all criteria in the DSM, and not just a few "traits". Nearly everyone I know has at least one trait of Asperger's. I wonder what Wittgenstein would have felt about the assessment. It's kind of unfair to diagnose people retroactively, in a way.
whitetigerdream 5 months ago