Autistic Prodigies Since ‘Rain Man’
Our evolving understanding of “the engineer’s disease”
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17 min readJan 21, 2019
By Ann Hulbert
The list of off-the-charts young achievers associated, in retrospect, with Asperger’s syndrome extends a long way back. You may have heard that Bill Gates has been informally diagnosed with it. So, after the fact, has Bobby Fischer, obsessive and unable to look anybody in…
