This needs to stop

[Fredan]

Other autistics really need to stop spreading stuff like this.

There is no way to tell if any of these men were autistic or not, and autism was not known in their time either.

More "feel good" nonsense.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Agreed. I think it's fair to say they may have been autistic, but no more than that.

I find it absurd that people put in serious discussion about whether fictitious characters are autistic.

 

[velociraptor]

 

[Dagan]

At least, per those specific historical figures, there's a lot of facts and recorded interactions with them. It's enough that there are many scholarly investigations into it all. It's not just pulled out of thin air to make mention of, I mean.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Other autistics really need to stop spreading stuff like this.

There is no way to tell if any of these men were autistic or not, and autism was not known in their time either.

More "feel good" nonsense.

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Newton and Mozart were, by all accounts, true savants. Einstein, a genius in his field. Autistic? Who knows.

At any rate, I agree... this sort of thinking is completely ignorant to the point of being ridiculous.

 

[Tarkus]

But even if they actually were autistic, it's 100% irrelevant.

Honestly, it’s pretty poor reasoning... As if success (whatever that is) didn’t depend on lots of different factors.

 

[Aeolienne]

Undiagnosing Gates, Jefferson and Einstein

 

[NB79]

Didn't supposedly gates talked about 'his autism' or that was fake news.