Matt was a child prodigy, and child prodigies have it notoriously tough. He and I worked closely for a while. There is someone else important in my life that has somewhat close to mst's intellectual gifts, and similarly to mst they also have difficulty controlling their reaction to other people. However, unlike this other person in my life, mst did know how to express accountability and had been on a learning process to deal with his limitations. Matt and I never had beef, perhaps because we recognised our respective strengths and weaknesses were complementary.

'Child prodigy' is not an exaggeration here: https://trout.me.uk/prec/

You're posting this in a thread filled with stories which paint him as an asshole.

and child prodigies are notorious "arseholes" QED.

My point was that 'child prodigy' was not loose flattery or exaggeration by a friend, because he was at 'has newspaper articles being written about him' levels of child prodigy and was unarguably a child prodigy.

People like him made my life hell. Sad he died, but if he was an arsehole, then he was an arsehole.

I totally get it, some people found his mess very difficult and it could easily lead into a death spiral. Others had a very different experience. He was certainly someone needed to be managed by those who knew him well from time to time, when possible.

Does his behavior perfectly match the people who made your life hell, or are you projecting?