> I chafe pretty hard at the suggestion here that one has to be socially ill-adjusted to advance scientific knowledge at the highest level. This is very simila

> I chafe pretty hard at the suggestion here that one has to be socially ill-adjusted to advance scientific knowledge at the highest level. This is very similar to the idea of the tortured artist or that to be a great comedian you have to be depressed. The happy and well adjusted comedian or socially adept mathematician doesn’t make for an interesting story — it just doesn’t fit the popular narrative and so it gets ignored. In every discipline there are total weirdos and normal people at every step of the way, from terribly inept to amazingly world-class.