I've been very critical of Poettering in the past, but after reading all the replies here, I'm starting to wonder if all if his terseness could be chalked up to

I've been very critical of Poettering in the past, but after reading all the replies here, I'm starting to wonder if all if his terseness could be chalked up to extreme autism combined with social anxiety coping mechanisms (complete with memorization of pithy replies). This makes me feel really bad about that time he was "heckling" the guy at the conference, saying things like "if you don't like logind, you must hate the disabled"; he was taking the insults of his program very personally, and went for the political angle/fallacy as an attempt to shield a deep wound. I now kinda feel bad for the guy a little.