autism spectrum
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autism spectrum is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 28, 2021 and September 13, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “believing in an autism spectrum”; “dozens of people expressed to me their conclusion that Musk sits somewhere on the autism spectrum”. It most often appears alongside Tesla, Abe Lincoln, AD.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 28, 2021
- Last seen: September 13, 2023
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- Andrew Beal (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Autism is such an annoying thing to have on this list – just when everyone finally agreed there was an “autism spectrum” and no clear difference between neurotypical-people-with-some-autistic-traits and high-functioning-autistics, along comes this meta-analysis to say nope, it’s a taxon, neurotypicals and autistics are two clear objectively separate categories. I did hunt down the studies here and they actually seemed pretty good. But none of these results are strong enough to be more than suggestive, so I am going to keep believing in an autism spectrum until more research comes in.
People also linked this type of behavior to Musk’s other quirky traits. He’s been known to obsess over typos in e-mails to the point that he could not see past the errors and read the actual content of the messages. Even in social settings, Musk might get up from the dinner table without a word of explanation to head outside and look at the stars, simply because he’s not willing to suffer fools or small talk. After adding up this behavior, dozens of people expressed to me their conclusion that Musk sits somewhere on the autism spectrum and that he has trouble considering other people’s emotions and caring about their well-being.