Welcome to AspiePedia

AspiePedia is a clinical-literary encyclopedia of historical genius, reinterpreted through the diagnostic lens of Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism. Based on the diagnostic frameworks developed by Michael Fitzgerald—including Genius Genes, The Mind of the Artist, and The Genesis of Artistic Creativity—this project documents the lives and works of extraordinary figures whose cognitive architecture, affective style, social detachment, symbolic obsessions, and recursive thinking reveal the unmistakable structure of Asperger cognition.

Each entry reconstructs the individual’s biography in the style of Wikipedia, but with every sentence refracted through the diagnostic prism of Asperger syndrome, revealing a new understanding of creativity, solitude, morality, and mind.

Why “AspiePedia”?

The name AspiePedia is intentional. While DSM-5 collapsed Asperger syndrome into the broader autism spectrum, recent genetic, clinical, and molecular studies have re-established its distinctiveness. Research demonstrates that individuals once diagnosed with Asperger’s differ from other autistic subtypes in heritability, cognition, sensory responsiveness, motor coordination, psychiatric comorbidities, and even gene network profiles. These findings vindicate the continued use of “Aspie” to name a coherent, scientifically defensible category.

A detailed justification, with citations to the latest studies, can be found on the page: Why AspiePedia?

The Foundational Principle: Totalasperger

“Everything within autism, nothing outside autism, nothing against autism.” – Paraphrased from Benito Mussolini and Jim Sinclair

Carl Schmitt’s concept of the Totalstaat—the total state that encompasses all aspects of life—serves as a structural analogy for what we call here Totalasperger. This term is modeled after Jim Sinclair’s pivotal observation:

“Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion, and encounter, every aspect of existence.” — Jim Sinclair (See Jim Sinclair and the Origins of “Don’t Mourn for Us”)

Totalasperger is not a political statement—it is a phenomenological reality. It names the totalizing nature of Asperger cognition in the life and output of the individual. The autistic individual does not merely have autism; they are autistic in every experience. Their work is not occasionally autistic; it is autistic in its origin, form, and function.

As such, every poem, theorem, film, battle plan, machine, manifesto, or moral drama produced by the individuals listed below emerges not in spite of Asperger syndrome, but through it.

Structure of Each Entry

Clinical framing: Each subject is interpreted through Asperger syndrome diagnostic criteria, using Michael Fitzgerald’s 10-point heuristic.
No formal diagnosis required: Historical figures are analyzed retrospectively based on documented traits, not speculation.
Symbolic cognition over social charisma: Emotional detachment, affective flattening, and ritualism are not pathologies, but creative drivers.
1000-word standard: Each entry enforces narrative parity and diagnostic focus.
Moral neutrality: AspiePedia includes both celebrated and condemned individuals. Autism is not virtue; it is structure.

Why AspiePedia Exists

To reinterpret greatness, difficulty, and exceptionality as manifestations of structured difference.
To reclaim Asperger syndrome as a framework for genius, not merely impairment.
To provide a counter-history to narratives that erase autism or romanticize it without clinical grounding.
To challenge neurotypical historiography with Asperger historiography: pattern, recursion, monotropic immersion, and symbolic fidelity.

On Diagnosis and Responsibility

AspiePedia does not absolve, condemn, or idolize. It analyzes.

Figures like Adolf Hitler are included not as examples of autistic greatness, but as tragic illustrations of what happens when autistic cognition fuses with paranoia, narcissism, and moral collapse. This is not excusal—it is forensic neurology.

Autism, in itself, is morally neutral. What matters is what the mind does with its structure.

On Sinclair, Schmitt, and the New Historiography

Sinclair gives us interiority. Schmitt gives us structure. AspiePedia unites them.

Just as Schmitt’s Totalstaat posits that the state governs all aspects of life, Totalasperger posits that autism governs all aspects of perception and production in the individuals catalogued here. Their minds were not occasionally strange—they were fundamentally structured differently.

And from that structure came mathematics, metaphysics, novels, revolutions, films, engines, and death camps.

AspiePedia: A Canon of Neurodivergent Legacy

Below is the current and forthcoming canon of AspiePedia entries. Each name links internally to their full 1000-word diagnostic biography.

AspiePedia is not a list of outliers. It is the beginning of a new literary neurology.

Everything within Asperger. Nothing outside Asperger. Nothing against Asperger.

Alphabetical List of Aspies (Michael Fitzgerald analysis)

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