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: : Similarities between a Kansas teen's behavior and : Thomas Jefferson's unexplained idiosyncrasies : prompted a father's search and a startling : discovery: the Sage of Monticello had : characteristics of high-functioning autism -- : Asperger's Syndrome -- well within the range of : modern diagnostic criteria. Diagnosing Jefferson : explains the ways this condition affected : Jefferson's beliefs, decisions, and actions. : Thomas Jefferson may elude accurate : summarization, but authors have tried. This : appears near the end of Diagnosing Jefferson: : A Nineteenth-Century biographer, James Parton, offered us a summary of Thomas Jefferson : as a man who “could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try : a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play a violin.” : My Jefferson study reveals a brilliant and talented man who made love to women, tippled : his wine, wore funny clothes, abhorred making speeches, fled to seclusion, brooded and wept, : sidestepped disputes, waffled on race, obeyed dumb routines, believed fiction real, endured : painful losses, and finally went broke. : Copyright 1998, 2000, Norman M. Ledgin

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