Marc Segar

Marc Alexander Segar (April 2, 1974- December 1997) was a British autist.

He was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 1981 and died aged 23 years old in a car accident, although some claim suicide.

Hans Aspergers' original writings on Asperger's were only translated into the English language in 1981, the year Segar was diagnosed and only widely popularised in 1991. In 1985, in the Dictionary of Psychiatry, Asperger's Syndrome was mentioned in an eight-line description on page 16. The author was Henry Walton. At this time there were no published first person accounts by those diagnosed with Asperger's, and Marc was among the first people in the UK diagnosed with Asperger's to write a first person account of the condition; a handbook of life for autists.

While recognized primarily in the autism field, some of his ideas now go against current common acceptance. For example: "I myself believe that if a borderline autistic person has to go out into this rather obnoxious world independently then the last thing they need is to be sheltered".

Marc Segar died in a traffic accident on the M1 towards the end of 1997.

Works

 * The Battles of the Autistic Thinker
 * Coping: A Survival Guide for People with Asperger Syndrome (April 1997)