Aspie Musician in OZ
I’m not really sure what to think about this. I do not know anything about their music.
Refreshed Vine back in the limelight [Sydney Morning Herald]
Four years ago the Vines were the hottest rock band in the world, lauded in the US as the face of the “new rock” movement, selling more than a million of their debut album, Highly Evolved, and filling large venues internationally only months after playing in tiny Sydney pubs.Nicholls, the singer and songwriter, was seen as an entertainingly eccentric figure whose odd behaviour was ascribed to copious ingestion of marijuana and a manic pop personality.
That was until, at the same time a second album, Winning Days, was failing to match expectations in 2004, the behaviour went from odd to violent, from abusing docile fans in Japan to kicking out at a photographer’s camera in Sydney.
It was only then, as the band took a lengthy break from public view, that Nicholls was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a milder form of autism. His difficulty with crowds, with being interviewed and even with being touched, finally had a reason. “It made a lot of sense to me … It was kind of a relief. It was more like an explanation,” Nicholls said. (more emphasis added –ed.)
There are some other articles on Nicholls’ Asperger’s here, here, and here.
Being Aspie does not explain the violence. Being overwhelmed, sure, I have been and will be there, but that doesn’t justify being an asshole. That probably makes me sound like an old, old man. Heh. Anyway, being an asshole is not in my DSM IV. Still, I can’t help but wonder what kind of ‘treatment’ he is getting as an adult.
Yeah, that post title sucks.
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