The youngest daughter of Bill GatesPhoebe Adele Gates, revealed this week in an episode of a podcast that His father has Asperger’s syndrome.
During the “Call Her Daddy” program, Phoebe was questioned by the presenter Alexandra Cooper, who asked him What had been his experience when taking a man home to meet his father.
While trying to answer the driver’s question, she shared, surprisingly, that The co -founder of Microsoft It has asperger syndrome, a disorder that is considered within the spectrum of autism.
“For the boy it is scary. For me it is hilarious because my dad is quite socially clumsy,” he said.
In this way he gave way to the confirmation of Bill Gates’s condition: “As he has already said, he has Asperger. So, for me, he is hilarious.”
-However, he did not provide more details about this. It should be clarified that the entrepreneur has never said to suffer from Asperger’s syndrome.
Even in search of answers the medium “The Independent” tried to contact him to collect in the statements of the young woman, without obtaining any response.
So far, there are no more details of the statement of the minor daughter of the businessman.
What is Asperger’s syndrome?
According to Medlineplus, “this syndrome is often considered a form of autism of high functioning. It can lead to difficulty for social interaction, repetition of behaviors and clumsiness.”
For its part, Mayo Clinic added: “It is a condition related to the development of the brain that affects the way in which a person perceives and socializes with other people, which causes problems in social interaction and communication. Disorder also includes restricted and repetitive behavior patterns.”
