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Magnus_Rex
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28 Apr 2013, 10:44 am

The time-traveller "hypothesis" was a joke. :lol:


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30 Jul 2013, 3:12 am

What strikes me about Tesla is that, like a lot of Aspies, he was often taken advantage of by more worldly, less morally principled people like Edison.
I was just flitting around the internet tonight, when I thought I'd look up Tesla - and I happened to come to this old WP thread, and couldn't resist commenting!

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10 Jun 2020, 1:39 am

I think Tesla was the greatest scientist who ever lived, and he didn't have Asperger's Syndrome like us lol.



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10 Jun 2020, 7:57 am

arianwinnie wrote:
I think Tesla was the greatest scientist who ever lived, and he didn't have Asperger's Syndrome like us lol.
Too bad he didn't pay his bills and died virtually penniless.


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15 Jun 2020, 8:09 am

Pretty sure he was more likely to have had synesthesia (one non-autistic neurodivergency) as opposed to AS. What can be ascertained for an overlooked scientist like himself is that he wasn't neurotypical. He won't even bother to look down from the metaphysical realms to visualize the thick mire of global macroeconomic and geopolitical instability that has pervaded the earth for decades that he presumably foresaw.


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