{"id":688,"date":"2003-05-06T03:16:56","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T03:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:50","slug":"were-einstein-and-newton-autistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"were einstein and newton autistic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While acknowledging that firm diagnosis on the  dead is impossible, autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen  of Cambridge  University, UK, thinks Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton showed signs of  Asperger syndrome, a form of autism that doesn&#8217;t cause learning  problems, reported <em>New Scientist<\/em> last week. Baron-Cohen assessed their  personality traits based on biographical information and said that the  scientists exhibited the three key symptoms of Asperger&#8217;s &#8212; obsessive  interests, difficulty in social relationships, and problems  communicating. Others are not convinced. Psychiatrist Glen Elliott  of  the University of California at San Francisco points out that any  behavior can have various causes. &#8220;One can imagine geniuses who are  socially inept and yet not remotely autistic.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 5\/06\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While acknowledging that firm diagnosis on the dead is impossible, autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University, UK, thinks Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton showed signs of Asperger syndrome, a form of autism that doesn&#8217;t cause learning problems, reported New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}