List of People With Autism Spectrum Disorders - Not On The Autism Spectrum

Not On The Autism Spectrum

• The late Kim Peek, one of the people used as the basis for the movie Rain Man, was once thought to be autistic, but his diagnosis has now changed. A 2008 study concluded that Peek probably had FG syndrome, a rare genetic syndrome linked to the X chromosome which causes physical anomalies such as hypotonia (low muscle tone) and macrocephaly (abnormally large head).