LOL I thought that Einstein and Gates were autistic, and a lot of my family is in science and math. I could add numbers and compute formulas really fast in my head, so I thought I would become like those geniuses. I didn't have many friends, and I thought that this was because I was destined to become the next Einstein or Gates. This "expectation" that I was gifted in that sense was used against me by some teachers that claimed I was willfully lazy because I have a poor work ethic despite those specialized skills, as my prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped, and I felt humiliated and worthless.
However, I still didn't make many friends in my engineering program, and after I failed a class, I started googling to see if Einstein or Gates were autistic, and found lots of good counterarguments. They said that they were schizophrenic, which is very different from autism, and could be linked to genius (i.e. John Nash was schizophrenic) but still had "certain autistic behavior". So I was tired of being humiliated by teachers and parents with no possible compensation, and now, it can't be a logical reason anymore.
I have an engineering degree but I am unemployed, as I couldn't balance classes and career networking.
