> whereas Aspies (like Jobs) have more empathy Let me tell you a little about the ADI-R [0]. The clinician reads your biography, makes small talk, asks you to

> whereas Aspies (like Jobs) have more empathy Let me tell you a little about the ADI-R [0]. The clinician reads your biography, makes small talk, asks you to make up stories, watches for any abnormal behavior, et al. The madeup story of a NeuroTypical will include the emotions of other people. E.g. "My friends and I went to the beach, but we were sad because it rained, and Alice got mad because it was her only day off, etc". An aspie's story will show ZERO AWARENESS of other people's emotions. Their entire world consists of PvE. Not because they have no sympathy for others' emotions, but because deciphering non-verbal cues is as opaque as deciphering an enigma. It's like the opposite of clairvoyance. Does that sound like empathy to you? I agree that Jobs must have had empathy. Otherwise he wouldn't have been so successful at manipulation. It's just that he was such an asshole that he abused his knowledge of others' emotional states to gain leverage over them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Diagnostic_Interview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Diagnostic_Interview <digression> In what world does "social ineptitude" not map to "significant difficulties in social interaction and non-verbal communication"? This feels like one of those bifurcation situations where someone is like "I'm not fat, I just have a BMI of 9000". > sociopaths (...) appear normal (it's part of the game, in fact). Psychopaths are the ones who blend in. Sociopaths are pretty conspicuous. > "restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests" Also fits OCD. We agree that Jobs was highly neuroatypical. But whatever his quirk, it's not autism.