Walter Isaacson, whose biography on Elon Musk is set to come out this fall, repeated his narrative about the Tesla CEO as a kind of flawed genius.
Walter Isaacson, whose biography on Elon Musk is set to come out this fall, repeated his narrative about the Tesla CEO as a kind of flawed genius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem
Autistic people feel empathy. Source - am autistic, feel (pretty strong and sometimes unpleasant) empathy.
Oh for sure. But an autistic psychopath may not.
Definitely not equating the two. I’m well aware that autistic people are often more empathetic, not less.
But some of his mannerisms just strike me as somewhat autistic. He doesn’t strike me as a straight psychopath.