4. Elon Musk
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During a TED Talk, billionaire businessman Elon Musk discussed how he has learned to work with his brain rather than against it. While speaking about life on the autism spectrum, he said,
"I didn't have such a happy childhood, frankly. It was pretty tough,"
In describing how autism affected him in his younger years, Elon said,
"Social cues weren't intuitive. Other people could intuitively know what something was meant to be. I would take something literally as if words were exactly what they meant. But that, of course, was wrong."
Although he was brutally bullied when he was little for being autistic, the founder of Tesla credits part of his success to the condition since this fueled his intense and specialized interest in science and technology. He stated:
"I found it rewarding to spend all night programming computers, just by myself," he said. "Most people don't enjoy typing strange symbols into a computer alone all night. They think that's not fun. But I liked it."
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