Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive and founder of SpaceX, said on Saturday that he has Asperger's syndrome, a “highly functional” autism spectrum disorder that has different and generally less severe symptoms than other types of autism spectrum disorder. category and is sometimes associated with people with great intellectual abilities. Musk said this while presenting the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, the famous American comedy program of the NBC channel:
Tonight I will go down in history as the first person with Asperger's Syndrome to present Saturday Night Live. Or at least the first to admit it.
In his opening monologue, Musk cited the fact that when he speaks often he has to add “I'm serious” at the end of a sentence, because due to the little variation in intonation the listener does not understand his intentions, and he anticipated. that “I won't be making eye contact with cast members very often tonight.” Asperger's syndrome often causes problems in managing sociability and obsessive-compulsive disorders. On social media, however, someone pointed out that the famous actor Dan Aykroyd, who presented Saturday Night Live (whose cast he was a part of for years), said he had Asperger's syndrome.
In 2013 the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the leading diagnostic manual used by psychologists and psychiatrists around the world, stopped considering Asperger's syndrome as a separate disorder and incorporated it into it. from the autism spectrum category.
Later, speaking of his often peculiar use of Twitter, Musk added: “I know I sometimes say or post weird things, but that's how my brain works. To those who were offended I can only say: I have reinvented electric cars and I am sending astronauts to Mars in a spaceship: did you really think I was a normal and relaxed type? “.
During the broadcast Musk then participated in various sketches, in which he played numerous roles, including a video game character, a cryptocurrency expert, a cowboy and himself.
