David Lynch.
Diogenes
I feel like a lot of philosophers were on the spectrum. Socrates is a definite contender.
Buddha
Mozart. Dude heard an exclusive Catholic track and copied it at 14.
So I am sure he had a touch of the 'tism.
OG pirate
Mozart was a sex crazed party boy. He liked fancy clothes and dancing.
Nice.
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All religions figures and or founders.
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
I think very few of them would have been famous, even posthumously, if they had lived today.
In what sense? That their work wouldn’t be appreciated or they wouldn’t have reached that point of success due to society?
There are way more people today and we compete with the entire world so it’s harder to stand out.
And progress is a lot more complicated today. It requires bigger teams working with more complicated equipment and more data than ever before. That means more people involved and, again, less opportunity for any one person to stand out.
This is all exacerbated by scientific journals and media companies that are more interested in making money than in making sure the best stuff rises to the top.
And people aren’t on the same page like they used to be. When there are a billion books, movies, songs, etc. to choose from, pop culture becomes less and less of a thing. People end up in their own increasingly atomized camps and can spend whole lifetimes there, not really caring about stars from the other camps.
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.
Alan Turing, I bet
Bet.
Nietzsche
Euler, most probably.
Isaac Newton.
Nikola Tesla
There is a legit theory in historical circles that Galileo Galilei was brcause he clearly didn’t understand some social conventions. Additionally, he was really ok with home arrest.
Oh no, sentenced to stay at my house where all my favorite stuff is, and a legally binding excuse to not have to go to that thing someone invited me to. You sure showed me, whatever shall I do?
