Henry Cavendish
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cavendish
Scientific genius, asocial and probably asexual, extremely shy, especially so around women, could only talk to one person at a time, and then only if he knew them, and they were male. Also the largest depositor at the Bank of England in his day.
Alfred Krupp, German steel manufacturer, inventor, and the largest arms dealer of his age.
He was obsessed with building cannons and built the first successful breech loading cannon of cast steel. Common wisdom was that such cannons would explode and kill their operators. He kept building cannons even though nobody would buy them.
He was an extreme hypocondriac who also suffered from depression. He would not leave his bed for weeks or months at a time. He would weigh anyone who visited his house and kept over thirty years of records before he died. He loved the smell of horse dung and had his office built over the stables so he could always smell it.
jesus christ bro was cooked
Alan Turing, I bet
Bet.
Thomas Jefferson. Good at writing, shit at social conventions. Developed a whole mechanised house via slaves. Slavery might not be an autistic trait, but mechanizing your house is.
I wouldn’t consider him a positive example, but he almost certainly was autistic.
Nikola Tesla
Euler, most probably.
David Lynch.
Isaac Newton.
Peter Mark Roget, best remembered as the person who compiled Roget’s Thesaurus. He was a physician by trade, but was actually pretty slow to start up that career, taking multiple detours along the way. Biographers noted that he suffered from depression most of his life, and, from an early age, compiled lists as a relaxation mechanism. After he retired as a physician, he earnestly compiled lists and lists of meanings of words and phrases, and indexed and organized them so that they could be referenced.
Kant
they say you could set your watch by when his Dino nuggets timer dings
Diogenes
I feel like a lot of philosophers were on the spectrum. Socrates is a definite contender.
Nietzsche
All religions figures and or founders.
Buddha
I remember reading about some crazy military guy that was like charging machine guns with a bayonet and winning, or something equally absurd. He was like the one Centurion that lived three ages later and is now like the best guy in the army.
Can’t think of his name & I need to go to bed since I’ve had like 3 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours so I can’t fall down the “crazy military story” rabbit hole right now. I’m sure someone smarter than me can link a Wikipedia page.
Anyway, that dude definitely had a touch of the 'tism.
