Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
However, that really has no bearing on whether Holmes is or is not someone with Asperger's syndrome in the original stories as Asperger's syndrome wasn't a know phenomena at the time and Doyle certaintly didn't intend for Holmes to have some kind of social or emotional disabillity(unless you count his cocain habit)
No, but he may well have modeled Holmes off of people who did have Aspergers - just because it hasn't been diagnosed doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Similarly some of the people who die of old age in older texts can be assumed to have probably died of cancer; the writers didn't know about it but the symptoms look familiar today and they may well have known people with the symptoms.