My nomination is Rassie Erasmus, a name very famous in international rubgy and currently the coach of the best rubgy team in the world, the most successful coach the Springboks in Sth Africa has ever had, and the most "quirky".
I often watch his summaries of various international games on You Tube and noticed that he stims every minute of them - sometimes by constantly tapping his face; more often by unusual repetive movements with his tongue and licking his lips.
I have read his autobiography, where he gives a lot of space to describing the unusual and unexplained "weirdness" of his (deceased) father - an interesting study IMO of an unaware, undiagnosed AS man, in an era when this was rarely recognised.
Rassie has also talked about relying sometimes on hunches/intuitions he gets about how a particular game will play out - and builds strategies around those for his team rather than sticking only to the conventional coach strategies. (This information isn't in his autobiography, but from descriptions written by others).
However that he's on the spectrum is only my own opinion. I'm a huge fan of his abilities and achievement in World Rugby.
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