BREAKING: Elon Musk has Aspergers

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From what i remember, He wrote code, stayed up late drinking coca cola, was a typical computer programmer nerd in the 70's. So yes, he was surrounding by a lot of other skilled 'aspie' people. But he has the traits underlying his own personality. Mixed in with some megalomania, from the runaway success he had.

In case you're confused: @Time is now owned by tech billionaire Marc Benioff, who's an investor in Elon Musk's SpaceX.

https://observer.com/2021/06/salesforce ... -startups/

Stone was very clear that in order for these families to rise to become the power as billionaires they cut deals, Not just with corrupt politicians but also with underworld mafia bosses. It opened my eyes how cut throat the business world is, both families may have worked with criminal networks who had to be worked with in order to secure control of unions/workforces and manipulating circumstances to land profitable ventures/contracts.

I don't believe Elon Musk had AS.

I don't believe Elon Musk had AS.

I have heard people speculate that Musk had Aspergers.
He is mistaken about being the first host to have it though, Dan Aykroyd had hosted in 2003.

Microsoft was not built by just Bill Gates. It was Gates and Steve Balmer. They completed each other. It was Balmer who sold Gates’s ideas. So maybe. As for Christine McGinness scripting is a known autistic trait that is useful for entertainers. Also more “wierdness” is expected and tolerated and celebrated then from the average person. There is a reason Hollywood is sometimes referred to as Hollyweird.

Assuming that Musk is indeed on the spectrum, despite his shortcomings, I would rather have him and Gates as a representative of us than some incel spree killer.

That said, when do we start speculating on Bezos?

Why not Temple Grandin? she's a Professor of Animal Biology and probably a lot smarter than Elon Musk.
I also think the incels who get highlighted in the media aren't typically labelled autistic except possibly Adam Lanza.

She would be good as well, as would Greta Thunberg.

Time Magazine announced this week that Elon Musk, the Tesla/SpaceX CEO and world's richest man, was their pick for person of the

The decision was not uncontroversial. Some called out Musk's privilege ("Sometimes I forget that Elon Musk has always been a privileged rich kid") while others suggested alternative picks (Officer Eugene Goodman, who stopped the January 6 rioters, was popular, as were the inventors of the vaccine) and others still brought up the fact that America's schoolchildren might have been more apt, given all they had suffered.

The controversy evolved further after Musk took the opportunity the day after the announcement to mock Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, calling her "Senator Karen" after Warren tweeted that Musk didn't pay enough in taxes and comparing her to an angry mother.

Asperger's Syndrome is a form of autism and one I know well, because I, too, have Aspergers. And it meant the world to me to learn that a superstar like Elon Musk has the same syndrome.

Like Musk, I am one of the lucky ones. I have a university degree and stable employment. But many more people with autism live challenging, difficult lives than are billionaires.

Musk isn't just the world's richest man, though. He's a brilliant inventor. And he did the impossible: He made electric cars cool. And he made space travel exciting again.

This is not to say there is no room for criticism. We can ask what is the utility of mocking a senator calling for higher taxes on the rich. We can be critical of Tesla's business model, too, which has relied on a lot of subsidies from the government. We can ask if Tesla cars will be able to be mass-marketed and accessible to middle-class families, and whether the batteries for electric cars will still pollute the air.

We can also point out that Musk has gone above and beyond in placating China to gain access to the Chinese market, even defending China's tough data laws that have been used to surveil Chinese citizens.

But we should also give credit where credit is due: Elon Musk made something as obtuse as electric cars something into with an edge. He turned electric cars from the Trabant into the Lamborghini.

And if I'm being honest, it seems to me that that's probably something only a neurodivergent person could do. It's the kind of thing that someone who names his child X Æ A-Xii would do.

What makes Elon Musk great in other words is not separate from what makes him a hero for many of us in the neurodivergent community. It's deeply tied to it.

That's why I'm glad Time Magazine nominated Musk as their 2021 person of the year. In so doing, they made him the living proof that everything is possible in this world, even if you have a neurological condition like I have, with all the blessings and shortfalls associated with it.

We can ask if Tesla cars will be able to be mass-marketed and accessible to middle-class families, and whether the batteries for electric cars will still pollute the air.