The youngest daughter of Bill Gates, Phoebe Adele Gates, It accidentally revealed that the technological tycoon has Asperger’s syndrome. The founder of Microsoft had never talked about the subject.
Phoebe was in a podcast Call Her Daddy, where you usually talk about issues linked to Magazine.
In this case, the young woman talked about the way she uses to introduce her partners to her parents.
In this regard, he said: “For the boy it is something scary. For me it is fun because my father is quite more socially clumsy. He says, you know, he has Asperger. ”
“As he said before, he has Asperger. So, for me, it’s very funny,” he said.
Bill Gates tiene Asperger
In fact, the girl explained that the tycoon is usually “clumsy” in social instances, although her nearby circle knows that he lives with the condition.
According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Bill Gates has not talked about this topic publicly, but he has done so in his memoirs, called Source Code.
“During my childhood, there was no generalized understanding about the fact that some people’s brains process information differently from those of others,” he said at the time.
“I always knew that it was different in aspects such as my energy and intensity level, and that I simply went and began to study. Those behaviors confused people ”, He added.
Asperger’s syndrome is defined as a neuro development disorder that has as its main characteristic the affectation in the area of social interaction and the presence of patterns of rigid and repetitive interests and interests in those who suffer from it.
According to Carolina Arizcaín, an infant-juvenile psychologist of Bicentennial Clinic, “Children with Asperger syndrome usually present difficulties in developing, maintaining and understanding social relations, being complex for them to interpret the keys to social interaction and show socio-emotional reciprocity.”
