DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@pathfinder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pathfinder</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span></p><p>So, an example of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> folks before modern vaccines is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NikolaTesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NikolaTesla</span></a>! Compassionate, brilliant, and had his ideas stolen by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Edison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edison</span></a>! </p><p>Excerpt from "Was Nikola Tesla Autistic?"</p><p>"Some Eccentric Quirks Might Hint at the Possibility of Autism</p><p>Tesla garnered headlines for other reasons that fascinated the public, as well:</p><p> A carefully regimented daily schedule with work from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and dinner at the same restaurant at precisely 8:10 p.m., to be served only by the headwaiter.<br> Physical tics such as repeatedly curling his toes 100 times each night.<br> His eidetic memory that allowed him to instantly memorize books and possess perfect recall, allowing him to learn 8 languages easily.<br> He demonstrated an early ability to perform complex integral calculus computations in his head.<br> In his youth, Tesla experienced periods of sickness during which he would have visions. These were often the genesis of inventions or solutions to technical problems.<br> He became obsessed with electricity at an early age.</p><p>Because of his inventions and the era in which he lived, many of Tesla’s quirks were seen simply as the eccentricities of a genius—the archetype of the mad inventor.</p><p>But looking back, it’s easy to see many of those some quirks as evidence of typical symptoms of an individual with high-functioning autism."</p><p><a href="https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org/was-nikola-tesla-autistic/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org</span><span class="invisible">/was-nikola-tesla-autistic/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AutisticAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticAwareness</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AutisticAwarenessMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticAwarenessMonth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AutisticAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticAcceptance</span></a></p>