Andy Warhol (1928-1987). American visual artist whose work — the silkscreened soup cans, the Marilyn portraits, the Factory studio that operated as both atelier and social experiment — became foundational to American Pop Art and reshaped how Western culture understands the relationship between commerce and art. Warhol's behavioral patterns are well-documented and read recognizably as autistic-coded: profound social difficulties masked behind a deliberate persona, obsessive ritualistic routines (he ate the same lunch most days for years), monotropic focus on work that other observers found tedious or pointless, sensory peculiarities (he kept his shoes wrapped in plastic at home), and a famous emotional flatness in interview that contemporaries variously interpreted as performance, defensiveness, or actual cognitive style. His cognitive signature is the discovery specialty operating inside a deliberately constructed integration apparatus — the Factory was Warhol's attempt to build the social and commercial scaffolding around his own work. The combination produced one of the most commercially successful art careers of the twentieth century. (Speculative case; never clinically assessed during his lifetime, but the pattern is recognizable.)