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Who are the greatest autistic authors? What books should an autistic person read?

>> No.12863991

me in ten years

>> No.12863996

All good art is made by people with autism

>> No.12864000

>>12863982
your autobiography lmao<div class="like-perk-cnt"><img alt="" width="451" height="75" src="//s.4cdn.org/image/temp/dinosaur.gif"></div>

>> No.12864007

>>12864000
I don't have an autobiography.

>> No.12864017

>>12864007
heads and you make one<div class="like-perk-cnt"><b style="font-size: 14px">Coin Flip: Tails</b></div>

>> No.12864025

>>12864007
BTFO nonetheless<div class="like-perk-cnt">&#x1F603;</div>

>> No.12864028

>>12863982
Read Ray Monk's Biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein. I love the guy's work but he was definitely a bit sperg in his daily living.

>> No.12864053

>>12864025
>emojis

>> No.12864116

Lovecraft was almost certainly autistic.

>> No.12864182
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>>12863982
Emily Brontë was C.U.T.E. and autistic.

>> No.12864742

>>12863982
Tao Lin

>> No.12864756

Kant was a definite maybe autist for sure

>> No.12864769

>>12864028
He was also a pleb in matters of the soul
>For Wittgenstein, who highly valued precision and discipline,contemporary musicwas never considered acceptable at all. "Music," he said to his friend Drury in 1930, "came to a full stop withBrahms; and even in Brahms I can begin to hear the noise of machinery

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>>12864769
based and mozipilled
>Mozi takes some whole chapters named "Against Music" (非樂) to discuss this. Though he mentions that he does enjoy and recognize what is pleasant, he sees them of no utilization in terms of governing, or of the benefit of common people. Instead, since development of music involves man's power, it reduces production of food; furthermore, appreciation of music results in less time for administrative works.

>> No.12865027

>>12863982
cool pepe

>> No.12865058
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>>12863982
This might be the most autistic book I've ever read. It was written by a Soviet engineer and is heavy on math and geometry based metaphors.