Unstoppable Brilliance: Irish Geniuses and Asperger's Syndrome

Michael Fitzgerald · Antoinette Walker

2015年3月 · Liberties Press

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How much of what exceptional people achieve can be put down to their own efforts and inner drive, and how much to fate? In this groundbreaking study, the authors argue that the extraordinary achievements of key figures in Irish history were indeed unstoppable - a product of their character and unique way of interacting with the world. In a series of fascinating character studies, Antoinette Walker and Michael Fitzgerald argue that many of those who were crucial to the development of Ireland's political, scientific and artistic traditions - the revolutionaries Robert Emmet, Pádraig Pearse and Éamon de Valera; the scientist Robert Boyle, mathematician William Rowan Hamilton and ethnographer Daisy Bates; and the poet W. B. Yeats and writers James Joyce and Samuel Beckett - would, if they were alive today, be diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. The authors examine the character quirks that lead them to believe that all nine can be seen as 'Asperger geniuses'. They assert that this condition meant that all nine were virtually predestined to become exceptional figures in their chosen field and that, moreover, Asperger's syndrome can be seen as the key to genius in all ages and all cultures.

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Michael Fitzgerald is Henry Marsh Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and is the leading expert on Asperger's syndrome and autism in Ireland. He has written extensively about these subjects and addressed national and international symposia on them. See www.professormichaelfitzgerald.eu

Antoinette Walker is a freelance editor and writer who has worked in publishing in Ireland for ten years, with the Irish Medical Journal, Blackwater Press and Folens Publishers. She holds an MA in philosophy from University College Dublin and trained as a general nurse.