Wright brothers.....

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....were they aspi?

I haven't heard of anything that would indicate this.

Did you find out something about them that points in this direction or are you simply curious?

Something .......jeez! Everything!

Totally original thought.

Total immersion in their own brains and talents - no outside sourcing.

Profound application at something totally new.

Exceptional ability to design, evolve, modify, think intuitively.

An intense disatisfaction with existing technology.

They built new and lighter and better engines than anyone before them, never mind developing the science of aeroodynamics in their own wind tunnel.

Gotta be.

They WERE heavily into bicycles, figured out the airfoil things and, supposedly, few can actually manage the controls to fly their plane. NEITHER married. They said they had no time because of all their research. Both hated business. So they have a FEW AS traits. The question is how many others do they have. A few more, and I would be tempted to say they DO!

Wow, they sure sound like aspies to me.

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They were embroiled in lawsuits later on in their careers. Perhaps indicative of their inability to "let go"?

Sounds a lot like me, especially the intense disatisfaction with existing technology. I'm into cars and engines. I've recently figured out how to quiet an engine, without buying another one of those crappy, bulky, rusty mufflers, by placing an appropriately sized stainless steel washer in the exhaust pipe. I build my own engine control computers to run on gasoline and other fuels. Business generally disinterests me, although I am good at calculating whether a proposal is likely to work. I never married probably in part because I don't have enough money, and I know I need to be in a different place with my situation to meet the demands of living with other people.

I'm related to the Wright brothers.

I seem to remember that one of their breakthroughs was using aluminium in their airplane engine??? If so, this put them far ahead of Ford, who used vanadium.

I am honoured catspurr - details?

Prof:re aluminium, in those days it was very expensive.

Possibly



Yeah, SAME HERE!

I wouldn't say this makes them aspies, but they DO have a lot of things suggesting it! Most NTs would NEVER do those things like that.

Exactly, nt's would never pursue endlessly the way the Wright brothers did. Its their endless originality and striving forward into unknown (lonely, unfathomed areas) that mark them as so important and to my mind aspi.

Ahh... well that makes sense. Just remember to never assume something you know a lot about to be common knowledge, it's a mistake I've made before and would prefer not to repeat.

They probably had some Aspie traits, but as with anyone else you really can't make an accurate diagnoses across the span of history.

Oh, well, that clinches it!

There are lots of people with highly analytical technical minds, some of whom even talk late, who aren't autistic. There are books on late talkers who aren't autistic. One author calls it the Einstein Syndrome. /ducks/

Having an analytical/techie mind is not autism. It's having an analytical/techie mind. Sorry.

Of course, if you later dug up information indicating lifelong significant social/language/communication impairments (more than just being a nerd), that might be different. I don't really know anything about them, so who knows?

Notice I use the term aspi.

Anemone - to my mind you are off target. I do not use the term analytical, it doesn'e enter my hypotheses. How could they analyse concepts that hardly existed. I'm talking acts of imagination. Where no-one had ever been before.