Comments on: Dan Aykroyd, Autism, Acting, UFOs……

By: kimba

kimba — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:51:28 +0000

I notice on a lot of the comments people are assuming that Asperger’s wasn’t part of the nomenclature til it appeared in the DSM, but it was around before the war, took a little dip, then came back into parlance. People were aware of it as a separate syndrome for many years before it appeared in the “official” diagnostic toolbox. Dan did, and does, indeed have mild Asperger’s – it’s not just another joke!

By: Jim Dorman

Jim Dorman — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:50:39 +0000

Dan is the man! Dan, love you work! You help alot of people! God bless you! Hope you continue, “The Hollow Earth” project! No one but you has the unalterable strength to continue the project!
Thank You
Jim

By: Eric Gisin

Eric Gisin — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:04:37 +0000

He couldn’t have been diagnosed with Asperger’s around 1970, but Schizotypal PD does fit his paranormal beliefs.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:10:53 +0000

Which would have been before he started on SNL in 1975.

As I recall, when he was interviewed by NPR, the interviewer noted she’d heard he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia as a child. He corrected it and said it as Tourette Syndrome + Asperger’s.

By: Clay

Clay — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:31:52 +0000

Ah, somebody beat me to it. While I can believe that Dan is an aspie, I can’t believe he was dx’d THAT long ago. Not possible.

By: Ian Parker

Ian Parker — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:20:15 +0000

“It was his parents (his father was a civil engineer, his mother a secretary) who started Aykroyd on the acting path by enrolling him at an improvisational class. They didn’t particularly want him to be an actor, they just thought it would help calm their hyperactive son – he had been expelled from two schools for acting up and a psychiatrist had diagnosed mild Asperger’s syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum, because Aykroyd had a few tics and had shown signs of obsessive compulsive disorder.”

In this is a quote from the Guardian, it sounds like they’re saying that he was diagnosed before enrolling in the improvisational class. Which would have been before he started on SNL in 1975.

So Dan Aykroyd was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at least 19 years before the diagnosis was added to the DSM-IV.

As such, Aykroyd must have successfully discovered how to travel back and forth through time, probably with the help of the extraterrestrials. So Joseph, how much more proof do you need?

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:34:28 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out if he was acting throughout that interview.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:14:04 +0000

Fellow aspie Dan needs to realize that it’s not up to sceptics to provide explanations. It’s up to him to provide convincing evidence.