In one of my typical alice-following-the-rabbit web-wanderings, i came across a list of notable figures “speculated to have been autistic”
“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always
contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other
human beings and human communities. I am truly a lone traveler and have never
belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with
my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of
distance and a need for solitude…”