4:25am July 23, 2014

More from the Tesla documentary

“What he lacked were the social skills, and that’s an enormous shame, because it interfered with his ability to use that genius, to be practical.”

Still watching the documentary on Tesla, that’s an exact quote from one of the talking heads they have discussing his life.  They keep describing severe sensory issues, eccentricity, lack of understanding (or caring) how the business world worked (to the point of financial ruin), inability to predict how other people would use (and steal) his work, and lack of social skills.

And again, I keep thinking, neurodivergent in some way.  Has to be.  Of course I’ve heard of this before with him, and again I’m not fond of retrodiagnosing celebrities, but come on, something was going on here.

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