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Is there any historical writers who have undiagnosed autism or who would be considered to be on the spectrum by today's standards?

>> No.16436102

all of them.

>> No.16436109

>>16436091
Kant

>> No.16436135

>>16436102
I was about to say this

>> No.16436168

>>16436091
Literally ever major philosopher or scientist pre-1990 is suspected to be autistic.

>> No.16436192

>>16436168
Mental illness is the oil that gets the instrument that is mankind working again when rust has taken up its cogs.

>> No.16436216

Joyce seemed pretty autistic

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>>16436192
Not a book, but a movie.

The Adventures of Mark Twain. It's a stop-motion kid's movie. It's so uncanny, from the overly-detailed faces to the strange dialogue, it just feels like it was made by autists

Here's one of the more coherent scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntf5_ue2Lzw

>> No.16436280

>>16436270
oops, meant to reply to OP

>> No.16436320

>>16436168
Philosophy and science force you to think in "autistic" (mechanistic) ways about the universe. If you weren't born on the spectrum, you better get on it quick if you want to succeed in these fields.

>> No.16436407

Posting in a sperg supremacist thread

>> No.16436414

Isaac Newton - sperg
Tesla - turbo sperg
Machiavelli - sperg
David Hume - sperg

>> No.16436689

>>16436270
poggers

>> No.16436708

HC Andersen (author of "the little mermaid")

>> No.16436723

>>16436091
Autism didn't exist pre-20thC because there weren't as many retail jobs for the socially inept to fail in

>> No.16436833

>>16436270
Very interesting watch.