Autism and Asperger syndrome -- Gift or curse -- Frontostriatal hypothesis -- Medial temporal lobe hypothesis -- Cerebellar hypothesis -- Autism/asperger syndrome : a disorder of the social self -- William James Sidis (1898-1944) -- Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) -- Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) -- Enoch Powell (1912-1998) -- Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) -- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) -- Joy Adamson (1910-1980) -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) -- Robert Walser (1878-1956) -- Conclusion