Re:John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
by wmccullough on Monday May 14, 2018 @08:37PM
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Disclaimer: This is an opinion and I’m not purporting this as fact, since folks don’t know the difference these days.
Based on his reactions to social situations, I truly believe he was on the autism spectrum, and that he suffered from lifelong reactive attachment disorder. To some degree, I can understand the disdain others feel for him, but I also can’t fully understand it either. It’s not like anyone was suckered into Apple not knowing how he was. I feel that if you signed up to work there, you were signing up for his uncompromising vision. People with uncompromising visions are a lot like him from my observation.
This doesn't sound so much like an admirable quality as much as it sounds like a symptom.