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3:08am July 23, 2014

Watching a documentary on Tesla.

One, wow he had sensory issues.  I mean seriously he had hyperacute hearing, he could hear watches ticking three rooms away, carriages from several streets away… I’m not much for retrodiagnosis but he was at least neurodivergent in some way, and I’m guessing more than that.  

But two, it turns out, from what I can read between the lines, that he got a lot of his inventive streak from his mother.  If it had been his father, there would have been a lot more time dedicated to that.  Since it was his mother, there was a brief description of her inventions and creativity and skill as a weaver, and that was it.  When clearly she was a huge influence on him.  But being female, apparently she isn’t worth as much mention as when men get such traits from their fathers.

ETA: He couldn’t stand perfume, touching people’s hair, or shaking hands, either.  Sensory issues galore, seriously.

He also claimed, according to this, to have “destroyed his sexuality at the age of 40”.  Interesting.