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There are many people who are on the spectrum and don’t even realize it themselves. They learn to cope. The average person wouldn’t even think much of it.

“Autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen believes Einstein showed symptoms of Asperger syndrome. As a child, he had no friends and, until he was seven years old, he compulsively repeated sentences.
Einstein's lectures were also incredibly confusing and he had trouble communicating his thoughts clearly. The inability to communicate his thoughts, Baron-Cohen argues, could be indicative of Asperger's.
However, University of California psychiatrist Glenn Elliott disagrees. He thinks Einstein could have been isolated simply because he was so intelligent and had no patience for those who couldn't keep up with his thinking. Elliott also points out that Einstein had a good sense of humor, which is extremely rare in people with Asperger's.”

“Nikola Tesla was a brilliant engineer and inventor. Asperger syndrome is actually often called "the engineers' disorder," because many engineers display symptoms of it.
Throughout his life, Tesla struggled to interact with other people and he spent most of his time working in solitude. As a child, he had an unusually long attention span, often working on a single project for hours. Tesla was hypersensitive to certain sounds and physical sensations and he had no tolerance for loud noises. Tesla had a remarkable gift: the ability to visualize complex machines and test them using only his mind. io9 points out that many of these qualities are associated with autism”